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The conditions for better living and a better society already exists, and everything has been created by the working class, and most peoples continue marching behind and tailgating the stupid leaders, worshipping state ministers , fighting for reformism, and begging for crumbs of bread We are just a bunch of masochists
The socialist party has resources to record the articles of the socialist standard every month in a podcast, many Leninists organizations are doing that every day.
It was a suggestion made many years ago and nobody paid attention, as well, there are better platform than this one for discussion forums
The articles of the Socialist Standard should be translated to different languages every month.
The ICC was born in France and they have branches in different countries around the world and they publish their articles in different languages .
The IMHO started from zero a few years ago and they have branches and contacts in different parts of the world
That could prove to be counter-productive from their own point of view. Being taught about “communism” may lead some to go further and seek out what the word originally meant and so to realise that the so-called “communist” countries aren’t communist. Actually, as Lew points out here, they don’t even claim to be.
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Precisely, that is what really happened during the 60 and 70, when government prohibited the reading of Marx, Engels and Lenin works, youngsters and workers started to read them, and they were carrying pamphlets inside comic books and playboy magazine as camouflage, and workers listened shortwave radio with broadcasting ( they were prohibited too ) from Russia, Cuba, China and Albania, but with the only difference that many peoples became attracted toward China and Albania instead of real communism
The real concept of socialism/communism was never learned, and the real conception of Leninism was never learned either, when the WSM forum in Spanish was established it was a surprise and shock for many of them to read about Lenin state capitalists conceptions, and the real true that none of them were socialists or communist, and that the real socialist was Martov, for most of them based on the propaganda distributed by the Maoists and the Stalinist, Leninism was considered a communist conception
Several organizations dumped Castroism in order to adopted Maoism and Hoxhaism during the controversy with the Soviet Union and the so called soviet social imperialism, now the case with the USA might be different because workers might learn that those so called communists countries never established communism and also those countries never said that they were communists either, and in our time the access to Marx and Engels works are widely distributed in the Internet, and they might also learn that socialism/communism in one country it is just a fallacy from both sides
No wonder, workers are so confused about the concept of socialism/communism. A so called communist group defending the so called democratically elected government of Syria, and a religious fanatic resistance. Al Assad was a brutal dictatorship who left Syria with billions of dollars and he is living like a king in Russia while peoples are living in poverty. The same situation is taking place with some groups in Latin America supporting the government and the leadership of Iran
https://www.newsnationnow.com/religion/christians-syria/
Christians in Syria
I have read that under the new situation in Syria Christians are having some difficulties. Syria was the last secular state in that area, and Christians have existed in Syria since the first century. Paul was not a jew,( in the traditional sense ) he was a Syrian converted to Judaism ( proselyte ) and he had Roman citizenship
The left-wingers are the first ones who think that killing a CEO will resolve the problem, as well, they think that the main problem in the US is Trumpism, or that the main problem in Russia is Putin . They should know better that the problem is capitalism or the profit system
There are still some groups denying that the Iraq war was not for oil and gas, the Afghanistan war was not a war for opioids and to sell drugs as some conspiracionists are propagating
The actual conflict in the Middle East is also a war for oil, gas, commercial routes and military access, and anti imperialism is not anti capitalism
It is not a war for freedom and democracy,
The Russians are not fighting against Fascism, that is the old soviet scares, and the concept of pos fascism is being used by some groups in order to obtain the votes of the workers, and then they make alliances with the right wingers when their coalition is collapsing.
The WW1 was for metals, and all following wars have been for resources, spheres of influences, market, and territories including the Vietnam war and the Korean War
These are the so called achievements of the actual capitalist government of Argentina. He has been turned into a god by all the right wings groups and exploiter of the world . His legacy is death, hunger, unemployment, elimination of all workers benefits, and misery . There are workers that without knowing the reality are supporting his so called achievements
China does not have so many cheerleaders like during 1960-1980 when they created the Mao Tse Tung thought, and many organizations in the so called third world adopted Maoism, they sold millions copies of Mao Tse Tung collected works, and Peking Review , had Peking Radio which was listened in most third world countries using shortwave radio and transmitters, it was the competition of Moscow Radio and Habana Radio
China was against the so called soviet social imperialism, and then Albania took a big chunk of the Maoist movement, they created what was known as the Albanian tendency conducted by Enver Hoxha, they also sold millions of copy of the collected works of Hoxha, Albania Today and they had Tirana Radio which was also widely listened in the third world countries.
The competition for all of them was the Voice of Americas financed by the USA government, it was the station of the right wingers, but they had better broadcasting than all the stations of our time, it was an ideological battle among the differents tendencies
Maoism and Hoxhaism were widely propagated in the third world countries, and most young peoples supported both world tendencies and right wingers were not so popular like in our time, on the contrary, it was a shame to be a right winger, everybody knew that China and the Soviet Union were capitalists countries
There were more theoreticians in that epoch than now. China lost many supporters when they propagated the so called Theory of the three worlds and many Maoists rejected that theory, specially went they started to support anti soviet dictatorships
The ones that exist in our time they are amateur cheerleaders
Several presidents and dictators in Latin America promised rent and price control and the law was passed in the congress but it never took place, on the contrary, the situation got worse, even that the governments made agreement with the sellers, workers unions and producers, they broke all accords and prices became excessive high including the price of gasoline that was double Price control has never worked in the capitalist society,
The International Monetary Fund twisted the arms to several countries, and central banks were forced to abandon the measures because high austerity plan were imposed and countries had to generate more profits in order to pay the international loans.
Since the national currencies were completely devaluated in comparison to the dollars, and they had to have dollars dollars reserves ( visas ) the rate of inflation increased drastically and the prices of commodities went up and workers suffered the consequences
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-now-says-bringing-down-170706161.html
Donald Trump before getting on the bus is already admitting that he can not bring down the prices of groceries, and it was a campaign promises that he was going to bring down prices by the stroke of a pen.
He was only reading the label of the cereal boxes, but he was not reading the logic and the laws of the capitalist mode of production
The old saying is: You can not fight city hall, but in this case is that you can not fight capitalist market, the market system destroys all politicians promises.
https://www.blackagendareport.com/gerald-horne-analyzes-collapse-syria-government
That situation was also explained by the Historian Gerald Horne
There is one piece of the puzzle that they have not mentioned but it was mentioned by Adam Buick:
That was quick. This week hasn’t been a good one for dictators. In South Korea a would-be dictator was forced to back down by parliamentary and popular resistance. In Syria a decades long brutal dictatorship collapsed within 10 days.
Both illustrate that even under capitalism a determined majority will get its way in the end. No government can maintain its rule in the face of widespread majority resistance. Those who think that a capitalist government would be able to establish and maintain for any length of time a dictatorship in face of the democratically-expressed majority will for socialism should take note.
In the words of Victor Hugo, “No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come”.
The government of Donald Trump thinks that dealing with China is like walking in a park, China is the one holding the fry pan by the handle, and the last time that they entered into a tariff war with china, the USA lost several billions dollars in earnings, and some industries were destroyed, and China is taking over the US market on their own backyard, and Mexico is the US number 1 commercial partner.
It is going to be a disaster, as well, deporting millions of foreign workers is going to be a disaster, who is going to do the hard and cheap labor in Agriculture, farming and construction ? Some of those skills require years of training and experiences The farming industry and meat industry is in economic crisis, and they are facing a tough competition around the whole world. There is not magician or demagogue able to solve the crisis of capitalism
That war is already lost, the Russians are holding a large area in Ukraine and that area contains the best minerals and resources that they need for the modern industry. The USA has never won a war without a secretary
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/12/13/cmnp-d13.html
China steps up retaliation against US economic warfare
Even before Trump is inaugurated as US president and moves to hike tariffs against China—he has threatened to impose a 60 percent impost—Beijing is demonstrating it is prepared to retaliate far more powerfully than it has so far to the economic war being waged against it by the US.
China moved very quickly in response to the decision of the outgoing Biden administration earlier this month to impose a new series of export controls on high-tech components. Those US measures are aimed at shackling China’s high-tech development, which President Xi Jinping has placed front and centre of the drive to develop new “high quality” productive forces.
Beijing imposed restrictions on the export of critical minerals last week and this week announced an antitrust investigation into the leading US chip maker Nvidia in a move that the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) characterised as “sending a message that China won’t stand by quietly when targeted by trade and technology sanctions.”
The export bans cover gallium, germanium, antimony and various compounds known as superhard materials, as well as graphite, which play a key role in the production of semi-conductors.
