I think talk of nations as the agents of international power activity is a dark hangover at this point from the 20th century World Wars, where business was tethered more concretely to nation-states' through the war efforts mass mobilization (through drafting too) that led business to take more concrete sides and choose homelands. During the world war it made sense to say "the USA" landed in Europe because the masses and business based in the US were coordinated in the war effort.

But it makes sense to switch to talking of the agents of power as international corporations (e.g Black Rock) the way we used to -- and mistakenly still do -- talk of nation-states, though, after the cold war, which also would have been more accurately described not as the USA vs. the USSR, but as the Rockefellers', Carnegies, and Morgans etc. vs the USSR, using the American state for it's ends.

I think communists really should consider moving away from talking of nation-states as the agents of power, as it also ineluctably sounds like an indictment of the masses who compose it.

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No communist is running In America

Its fund conce traction camps and ice wars, Israel- rep

Or fund social programs like education, affordable collge, affordable food and housing.

Trump is seizing businesses and countries

Maybe be concerned about all thr Nazis

I am an American seeing the rise of fascism, I want to help but I don’t know what I can do

I live in a rural part of America and I’m pretty sure I don’t have any communist chapters in my community.

I know adventurism doesn’t work, not that I’m brave enough to do that.

I’m seeing people like Hasan sell out to the Democratic Party.

Please help me I’m honestly about to <redacted> myself, I feel near worthless because of who I am (American who has benefited from imperialism and who is too stupid to learn any theory, probably borderline sub-human)

I've been reading marxist theory, but the ways contraddictions are discussed leaves me pause. Hope some people here can help me understand better.

Sussinctly, for what is relevant to my doubts, here is my current understanding of it:

Contraddictions are what all motion (as in change) in the universe is predicated upon.

Contradictions are relationships wherein tendencies of motion

1) oppose one another

2) are premises of the existence of one another.

Contraddictions exist within all things and between all things.

Why does it have to be a contraddiction that drives motion? What is so illogical about a relationship where there is a singular tendency of motion? I can think of cases that fit that description, for example, two identical charged particles interacting, there will be quantitative changes in speed and relative position as they repel each other, yet what is the contraddiction?

Mao in "on contraddiction" and Lenin in "on the question of dialectics" agree that the contradiction in such cases is between action and reaction. This answer is unsatisfactory, while it's true that it fits part 2) of the definition, and while it's true that the force vectors point in opposite direction, action and reaction are applied to two different object, they are not opposing tendencies of motion in the dialectical sense, failing the arguably more fundimental part 1) of the definition.

Also, Engels argues that all changes of positions are caused by the contraddiction of something being in that place and not in another place. This line of argument seems to be unfalsifiable: if we observe something change from A to B, we can always attribute that change to the contraddiction that A was A and not B. A more straightforward explanation is that there is a singular tendency for position to change based on velocity.

Is there something i'm missing in these examples? Is my understanding of what contraddictions are incorrect?

Basta olhar os debates na internet para notar que não existe um comunismo homogêneo na cabeça das pessoas. Cada militante ou trabalhador tem uma visão muito particular e expectativas diferentes sobre como o socialismo deve funcionar.

Na prática, essa variedade de interpretações faz o movimento parecer fragmentado e desalinhado. A própria história mostra que a teoria se materializa de formas muito diferentes dependendo de onde é aplicada.

Por um lado, essa diversidade prova que o pensamento crítico está vivo. Por outro, fica a dúvida: essa falta de alinhamento dificulta a nossa organização concreta contra o capitalismo, que sabe se unificar perfeitamente para nos explorar?

Would gambling be allowed under communism?

Camaradas, a grande mídia corporativa funciona como o braço ideológico do capital, desenhada para proteger o lucro dos patrões e anestesiar a nossa classe. Contra esse monopólio, a imprensa popular é uma ferramenta indispensável de agitação e organização revolucionária, e é por isso que jornais como A Verdade e o Brasil de Fato cumprem um papel fundamental na nossa formação e no combate diário à narrativa burguesa. Eles nos lembram que a comunicação nunca é neutra: ou ela serve à manutenção do sistema capitalista ou serve à emancipação do proletariado. Fortalecer, ler e fazer esses veículos circularem nas bases, nas ocupações e nos locais de trabalho é parte da nossa tarefa histórica de organizar a classe para a superação desta ordem de exploração. Como vocês avaliam o papel desses jornais hoje?

A recente declaração de Marco Rubio afirmando que "a comunidade internacional deve deixar de fazer vista grossa às violações de direitos humanos do regime cubano" é uma piada de mau gosto e um monumento à hipocrisia. Essa fala carrega uma contradição escancarada, pois vem de um representante do Estado que, historicamente e mais do que nunca, mata pessoas com bombas no Oriente Médio, ao mesmo tempo em que Washington sempre soube e tolerou os crimes mais bárbaros cometidos por ditaduras brutais apoiadas diretamente pelos próprios EUA. O cinismo é total: Rubio finge se importar com o povo cubano para justificar o bloqueio econômico criminoso que asfixia a ilha, enquanto passa pano para o terrorismo de Estado e a violência imperialista promovida pelo seu próprio governo ao redor do mundo. Não há nenhuma preocupação humanitária aqui, apenas o uso oportunista dos "direitos humanos" como arma política.

I’m starting to read communist literature now and I like the idea of it but I see so many communists saying Stalin was a good person and didn’t commit a genocide but I was pretty sure that he did and he was a horrible dictator that killed and oppressed millions please correct me if I’m wrong I’m still learning and want to know more

Just want to hear everyones opinions on the RCA and to those supporters, whatever your opinions on the different branches of Communism?,

Edit: thank you to everyone who commented! I'm personally an Ancon but the RCA just popped up locally and i just wanted to know a bit more about them from an outside perspective. I've decided the most ill probably do is get a monthly paper mailed to me as I like the hand out one they gave.

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Hello everyone, I've recently been thinking about my future studies. I'm in the third year of my bachelor's and I love learning (I'd love to be a professor) so I'm sure I want to do a master's, but I want it to align with my communist beliefs as well as it can. I'm currently studying sociology and I've definitely learned it is not the ultra progressive study I thought it would be but I still like it. If I were to do a bachelor starting now it'd probably be in history or social work. Also my university is relatively to the left and I was lucky to find a Communist professor of sociology that has been able to teach me a lot through the lens of historical materialism.

That said, I'm not sure if I want to do my masters in sociology. I like to think about my future. I'm fine being poor, been poor my whole life, but I'm also aware that my mom's health isn't the best and that there's a big possibility that in the future I'll be met with some big bills because of it, and I don't believe in nursing homes either.

The masters I have in mind are the following:

1. Sociology- specialize in social investigation and become a professor.

2. Social work- I'd love to learn how to help people directly. My country's government (Puerto Rico) is also giving some money to social work students since we currently have very little social workers.

3. Cooperativism- I'm especially interested in housing and food cooperatives, I think they can really help people. I'm currently doing a minor in cooperativism in fact. Even so, I know there's a lot of valid critique for cooperatives.

4. Planning- there's a school of planificación in my school. The lost well known type of planning is urban planning, but my university offers two other concentrations I'm more interested in: (1) economic and community development planning and (2) society and environment planning. I LOVE the sound of both.

I want to hear from y'all. I really want to study something that'll help me become a better communist. I don't care for fitting in capitalist society. Thank you in advance

I have read much of Karl Marx’s works including:

The Communist Manifesto
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
The Civil War in France
Value, Price, and Profit
Revolution and Counter-revolution or Germany in 1848

What else should I read? I am aware there is an abundance of communist literature, and I want to expand more. Where should I start? What are your recommendations?

Step 1: Classify essential goods

Based on the classification of residents' consumption expenditure in various countries；Based on practical life experience, screen out the basic categories of necessities.

Step 2: Production process for each category

Through various approaches (books, research reports, videos, on-the-spot interview...) list the production process for each category

Step 3: Means of production

Based on the production process, list the required production materials of each process (raw materials, equipment, knowledge, personnel and skills...)

Step 4: Major enterprises and their components

Based on each process of every category，list the corresponding major enterprises , their components and the possession of means of production (private, state-owned, cooperative, social organization, individual) ...

Step 5: Market analysis

Analyze the demands and production in various regions; Analyze costs of production and competitiveness...

Step 6: Positioning the entry point & Outline the path expansion

This involves strategic issues, such as how to drive the masses to continuously expand from small categories and how to solve the initial capital problem, etc.

However, there is a definite path: 1. Determine that the means of production are public from the very beginning; 2. From a single category to continuously expanding categories and production materials

Hi, I was wondering if there are any communist/ socialist communities in west Africa ( especially Ghana ) that I could join. I intend to enter into politics and do the best I can to help Africa after I am done with schooling and I wanted to connect with like minded individuals.

Thanks a lot in advance

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Graham Platner stepping down.

Kayla Young on NBC.

Let’s say roughly 60% or so of a country’s GDP is within the private sector, but it’s regulated by the state (can be bought off to look the other way), is that country capitalist?

I made a bet to my mom and sister that I’ll get extremely educated on communism and convince them why its better and make a powerpoint slide(I also do just want to get better in my knowledge on politics)

So far I’ve read the communist manifesto, and I’ve learned a brief history of Thomas Sankara. I want to get into more but theres just so much I get overwhelmed.

Anybody have tips and guides like books to read, youtube videos to watch, historical events I should know

Hello comrades,

I’m working on a long-term political discussion project based in South Africa called Red Vanguard South Africa, and I wanted to share it here to get feedback from other Marxist, communist, and left-wing perspectives.

The aim is not to copy existing movements, but to develop a South African socialist framework grounded in material conditions, anti-imperialism, and working-class power, while drawing from broader Marxist traditions.

The core direction of the project includes:

Economic Structure

Expansion of worker cooperatives across key industries

Public ownership of strategic sectors (mining, energy, transport, land, infrastructure)

Local beneficiation and industrialisation instead of raw material export dependency

Planning-oriented economic development with social priorities

Class & Employment

Strong focus on full employment through state-led infrastructure and industrial projects

Large-scale public works programs and skills development

Apprenticeships, vocational training, and youth employment pipelines

Strengthening working-class organisation and workplace democracy

Social Programs

Universal access to housing, healthcare, and education

Expanded social protection systems (including basic income discussions)

Strong public health infrastructure and preventive care systems

Support systems for elderly, disabled, and marginalised communities

Political Structure

Deepened democratic participation at community and workplace level

Strong anti-corruption systems and transparent procurement

Community oversight of public institutions

Integration of workers into decision-making structures

Environment & Development

Sustainable industrialisation with environmental protection

Clean energy transition and infrastructure renewal

Public sanitation, water security, and ecological restoration

Cooperative-based agriculture and food sovereignty

Internationalism

Anti-imperialist foreign policy outlook

Support for liberation and anti-colonial struggles globally

Strong Pan-African cooperation and regional solidarity

South–South cooperation between developing nations

This is still a developing framework, and I’m specifically looking for serious Marxist critique, theoretical feedback, and practical critique of feasibility rather than surface-level agreement or disagreement.

If you’re interested in engaging with these ideas or contributing to the discussion around socialist strategy in the Global South, you’re welcome to join the subreddit:

r/RedVanguardSA

Solidarity.