Dear comrades, School has me reading criminal law and included economist aspect: Marxist theory on punishment. Anyway they keep quoting this Otto kirchheimer as a marxist writer, but it seems that guy worked for the predecessor of the CIA.... So obviously I'm very skeptical about it. Anyone of you have any good sources on Marxist take on criminal law/punishment

29
6

One of my buddies is a hardened anti communist who thinks communists only create famines and genocides. He linked the wiki page of the Kazakh famine and I can only assume its the most biased crap out there. I need sources about what really happenned and caused the famine. Thank you comrades!

16
5

Dear comrades, As we all know there are two soviet eras pre and post death of Stalin. We all know Khrushchev basically did a coupe detat, by killing all Stalinists and also by starting the anti Stalin propaganda. We know he was the cause of the Soviet Sino split. But what exactly caused the split? What policies did he push that were reformist or capitalist in nature ? How exactly did he fuck up? I know the results, but I lack in knowledge of the causes.

54
94
newer books on MLS
  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearBR
    BrownMinusBlue
    3mo ago 100%

    Oke comrade here it comes.

    A "follow up" on Imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism, would be the work of kwame Nkruham (the liberator of Ghana from the British) the name is : Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism ( Sound familiar????) Although not technically old school old school it is worth a read.

    now the works of Stalin I have basically done all the audiobooks on that were on spotify from the Socialism for all podcast/channel but in case you dont have spotify hes als on youtube(he also sometimes gives some context about the situation that the books were written in, very helpfull). but heres the

    Stalin list:

    1. Mastering bolshevism 1937
    2. The fight against right and "Ultra-Left" Deviations 1926
    3. The proletarian class & the proletarian party 1905
    4. The october revolution an the tactics of the Russian communists 1924
    5. Stalin's comments on Churchill's "iron curtain" speech & post-ww2 hostilities
    6. Marxism versus liberalism: an interview with H.G. Wells 1934 ( It's technically not a book, but it shows how Stalin thought on his feet(he was prob sitting), his ideas on the west, spoken to a western person. Plus it was the thing that made me start looking into this bad boy, because I realized then and there that he wasn't this brute that my western education had me believe he was.

    Lenin:

    1. A caricature of Marxism & imperialist economism 1916
    2. On the two lines in the revolution 1915

    Gramsci:

    1. Prison notebooks (I have only started it, but its a heavy read.. ) its about Wester Hegemony(he coined that I think??)

    Rosa Luxemburg:

    1. Reform or revolution 1900/1908 (be careful though, eventually she and Stalin had a semi intellectual b*itch fight) but its good to give perspective.

    Mao:

    1. on kruschev's phony communism 1964 (Kruschev basically screwed us all over and created a split in global communist bloc and started implementing some weird anti-marxism/pro-capitalist policies.... he was the start of the decline of the soviet union) its basically about the soviet/sino split.

    A bit off topic but if youre into law/international law. The soviet union had one of the greatest lawyer/academic at that time Grigory Tunkin: Theory of international law. It gives a legal perspective on international communism.

    I hope this list will get you started, And with this comrade, I wish good luck.

    6
  • newer books on MLS
  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearBR
    BrownMinusBlue
    3mo ago 100%

    Love me some Parenti, that man changed my life.

    As to Prashad, I need to give him more of a looksy, but I have read some of his articles he seems smart and straight to the point.

    10
  • Comrades, I have been reading a lot and listening a lot to the classics like Lenin and Stalin. But I wonder if there are any contemporary writers that apply their theory to current events or have even furthered the philosophy without distorting it?

    18
    14

    So here I am finding out about instrumental and structural Marxism. The problem is that the main promoters of both theories were anti soviet. So my question is. Are there any sources of either Marx, Lenin, Stalin or Mao and what they thought about it? I can imagine that maybe the terms instrumental and structural could've been coined after their death. But I can also imagine they had some thoughts on similar concepts

    14
    6

    Dear comrades, I remember reading that after the Liberation of China by the communist party, the main cities had a problem with dead bodies in the streets due to opium overdoses. That every morning they had to clean an enormous amount of dead bodies. However I can't find anything on it anymore. Can someone help a comrade out?

    27
    5

    Dear comrades, we are living in dire times indeed. With the Zionist occupation escalating further , I am in need of an "old" video where a poor Palestinian father wearing a red shirt goes back to his bombed farmhouse to find all his children dead and the poor man keeps repeating Allahu Akbar. The first time I saw it was in 2020 although it could've been filmed before

    4
    0
    "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearAS
    Ask Comrades BrownMinusBlue 1y ago 90%
    documentaries about Japanese empire and their crimes.

    Respected Comrades, I want to know more about the atrocities commited by the Japanese empire during their colonial rule in Asia. Specially around the time of ww2. Are there any documentaries that you can recommend?

    9
    3
    "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearAS
    Ask Comrades BrownMinusBlue 1y ago 100%
    can someone refer me some good sources of the rise of Islamic extremists?

    Dear comrades, I had a family BBQ yesterday and my beloved uncle is under the Impression that all Muslim extremists (Al Qaeda, Isis and such) are Iran's fault and that they are the making of Shia Islam. That the Sunni are western Muslims oppressed by Iran. Are there any documentaries or articles I could use to inform him? I tried explaining operation Cyclone and timber sycamore but Wikipedia usually isn't that convincing in his circle (he has a PhD in engineering and used to work for a western oil company in the middle east)

    22
    6