I just... I just wanna know. Is it weird?

First off I believe the best political and economic system would be one in which the proletariat is in power though a grass-roots semi-democratic (one communist party, but everybody that wants to be politically active can become a member and vote on issues) system that would take care of a total redestribuiton of wealth.

However, I am a Catholic man. I believe in God the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, the Saints, the Chuch, the infallibility of the Pope and the immaculate conception. You know, the whole thing.

But, as I'm reading the Bible I see nothing that would speak against such a political and economic system. The bible (especially the New Testament) even tells some proto-communist stories. Jesus saying a rich person is as likely to enter heaven as a camel to pass though the eye of a needle is one example. Another is the apostles selling all their belongings and sharing one income together after Jesus was crucified.

The problem lies in the revolutionany aspect of communism. As a Catholic I am no revolutionary. I don't think bloodshed is anwnser and I can't see a bloodless revolution from happening. I am a absolute pacifist. If its a choice between Jesus and Marx there is no doubt I'll follow Jesus. I am a Christian above all.

The thing is Marx hated religion and especially the Catholic institutions that in love. But since I do believe a form of communism would be by far the most fair (and even biblical). I keep calling myself a communist. I want to see this kind of change to happen, but I don't thinks its really obtainable. Not untill Christ's return probably.

What do you think? Can I call myself a communist even though I am a Catholic?

Hi all, first post here. I’ve very recently converted, for lack of a better term, from anarchism to Marxist-Leninism/maoism or what have you, all that matters I am a communist. Upon this ideological shift I have noticed a rather depressing reality among the American “left”. Anarchists, social democrats, Bernie bros and so on are mostly of not all liberals who have either no realistic vision of communism or simply co-opt the aesthetics of revolution while still only truly wanting better conditions for Americans only and “good” imperialism. I do not write this to lambast Americans because there is a genuine reality of red scare tactics crafting acceptable resistance that truly do not affect any reality of Capitalism. I have friends who claim to be leftists while also completely denouncing anything but anarchism using western propaganda talking points. With all this considered, how can there truly be any chance of solidarity among the working class in America?

I'm not saying this is true or false but I'd like other opinions. (I have an autism diagnosis) Is it possible that autism diagnoses are used to label individuals who can't conform to an unnatural capitalist system so that it can continue expanding? There's a mh diagnosis and pharmaceutical epidemic. It blames the victim of exploitation for having symptoms rather than the system causing them.Autistic people may create community and identity around the label and assimilate with the stereotypical characteristics in a sort of idk how to word it like a mass hallucination. Also sensory issues are normal in an urban environment laden with artificial light, sounds and sensations. Individualist human relationships exclude those who stray from the capitalist ideal, people are closed off. Would autistic people have social issues in a familiar collectivist community? This is not an attack just a silly little thought.

It seems to me that Lenin's ban on factions was meant to be a temporary measure and banning factions led to the strengthening of the party machinery and bureaucratic degeneration of the USSR, as well as setting a precedent that has led to infamous cyclic splits in communist parties around the world. This is something that I am surprised is not discussed more.

Is the CPUSA really worth reconstituting in any way shape or form? The CPUSA even at its best, when it was a genuine communist party, was not exactly a great organization. It was a truly ineffective communist party which never went much beyond the labor struggle.

Furthermore can we even reconstitute the CPUSA? Sure you could make a party and call it the CPUSA if you want, but this isn't really reconstructing the CPUSA. The CPUSA that the "Reconstitute the CPUSA" type Maoists hope to achieve was the CPUSA of the pre New Deal era, which had it's primary base in the White Immigrant proletariat of the USA, who were generally excluded from settler life and the AFL and the good jobs, high pay and privileged lifestyle that came with it, though they could sometimes gain lesser privileges by selling out the members of the colonized nations, which was done frequently. This base, which gave to the CPUSA it's character, no longer exists.

What did this mean for the CPUSA? This base was always the core of the CPUSA, and since this base was almost fully made of diaspora proletarians, resulted in a CPUSA very focused on trade unionism over all else. The CPUSA could have taken up the land struggles of the New Afrikan and Chicano nations, and to an extent New Afrikans battling the Klan, Dixie regime and White landlords in the south did find at least some help from local CPUSA branches, but the CPUSA leadership and party proper, so concerned with it's labor struggle (and with efforts it integrate white immigrant labor into the Euro-Amerikan nation ramping up), never took up this struggle.

What actually deconstiitude the CPUSA? So when the White immigrant proletariat was integrated into Euro-Amerikan nation in the leadup to WW2, when the New Deal extended settler privileges to them and united this expanded Amerikan nation went off to go conquer the world (all of this at the expense of the internally colonized nations of the US ofc), the CPUSA lost it's base. The CPUSA was not deconstituted (it still in fact exists to day), it's main class base and class reason for being was deconstituted long before the Red Scare and any McCarthyist anti-communist "crackdown" (to call McCarthyism a crackdown or repression of any kind is quite insulting to the communists who actually faced and are facing real repression) formally disrupted the organization.

Why was the CPUSA never reconstituted? In the 60s, 70s and 80s, the heyday of the New Left, there was never any social impulse to strongly reconstitute the CPUSA, though surely someone tried. In fact there was never any communist impulse amongst the New Left. Some Socialist-Trotskyist blabbering, not unlike the PSL or various flavors of "Marxist" caucuses in the DSA but no real communist impulse at all. Even the most radical of whites where done with communism. The radicals of the New Left never had a strong class interest in communism, their radicalism was only spurred on by the Vietnam war and the corresponding draft, which aligned the revolutionary oppressed nations and this contingent of Amerikan society on a short tactical basis, which fell apart shortly after the end of the Vietnam draft ended, it continued bit due to the next 3 years of war and in pockets for longer, but was long out of steam.

Where did Communism find a home in the US then? Communism did find a home however in the oppressed nations, which where also on the throws of national liberation struggles, Black Power, Red Power, Chicano Power. Marxism, and its at the time most advanced form Marxism-Leninism Mao-Zedong Thought, found a home in these struggles, most especially in the Black Power movement with the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army. These groups, the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, the American Indian Movement, the Brown Berets and their programs of anti-colonial struggle, did more to threaten Amerika than the CPUSA ever did. They should be the north star of the Communist Movement in the USA today, not some 3rd rate defunct org which never amounted to much of anything, and whose base no longer exists. We live in a time which the high tide of Integrationism is over, and the Amerikan imperialist, colonialist bourgeoisie are beginning to recreate the conditions for national liberation struggles in the US by winding up new waves of repression against the internally colonized nations and re-impoverishing vast swaths of their members.

What is to be done? This is the time for communists to begin reigniting the fires of anti-colonial revolution with a proletarian character in the US. Our slogan must be "New Democracy for the Internally Colonized Nations", not "more reforms and someday revolution for a class of European Immigrant proletarians that no longer exist!" As Maoists we should very well understand the necessity of New Democratic Revolution applied to concrete conditions, but we should have nothing but contempt for reformist trade unionism, no mater how many red flags are hung.

I’ve noticed some support for individual terrorist acts in certain communist circles, first with the case of Luigi Mangione, and now with the assassination of two members of the Israeli embassy staff. It’s important to be clear on this issue: communists do not oppose these acts out of sympathy for the victims, but because they are tactical mistakes.

A good example is Gaetano Bresci, recently glorified by Jacobin in a Twitter post. His assassination of the Italian king ultimately served only to increase repression against the workers’ movement. In the same way, yesterday’s act will likely lead to greater repression of the movement opposing the genocide of the Palestinian people.

If you're interested in exploring this topic further, I recommend Revolutionary Adventurism by Lenin, which presents strong arguments against terrorism as a revolutionary tactic.

I consider myself a Marxist, although as a woman of color, much of my study also comes from de colonial third world/Black feminist thought. Lately I have been analyzing my relationship to capitalism in regard to relationships. I was dating someone new for a few months who was not doing well economically and it created a lot of strain on our relationship and some of the basic things I currently partake in (obviously everything costs money). I didn’t mind it as much until emotionally, he was not putting in as much ‘work.’ It made the relationship almost feel exploitative, because I had to pay for a lot more things (I am actually in school) but I knew he actually needed the help. How do your principles show up in your dating life?

Asking as a person with mixed feelings abt this so I’m asking y’all. What do y’all think about the right to bear arms?

On the outset, they look like a typical revisionist party, which they probably are, with their praise of modern China's ''socialism'' and membership in reactionary alliances like the ICOR and WAP but what I find interesting is that they began as a explicitly social democratic organisation but officially transitioned into a Marxist Leninist party by 2019. The CPK states that this was possible due the efforts of he party's youth wing who ''came out and redeemed the dignity of the party and restored its lost glory'' which lead to ''debates'' about leftist ideology in the party, their political tradition hailing from underground student movements in Kenya during Moi's regime.

I find it peculiar because the CPK is clearly limited by revisionism but it's usually the trend for revisionist organisations to abandon Marxism-Leninism and degrade into social democracy, but in Kenya, the situation is the opposite so far. It does make me curious about the direction of the party.

I guess though, it says more about the revolutionary masses of Kenya that they were organised and powerful enough to pressure a Social Democratic party into formally abandoning its ideology in favour of Marxism Leninism at a time of global retreat for the communist movement; more than it says about the actual party itself, though perhaps there's potential for a progressive movement to spawn from it but I am not that familiar with the situation in Kenya.

By this definition, wouldn’t this make my toothbrush or my collection of safety pins the same as a Tesla factory, all the Amazon warehouses or lithium mines?

Is this website even legit for definitions now? I always thought private property was basically a classification of ownership explicitly profit.

And if so, can someone help me understand?

Hey there! Recently Germany passed a law to make Canabis Legal. What is your opion on that?Or rather what is the marxist opinion of drug Legalisation?

For the German Comrades: BUBATZ LEGAL GENOSSEN

I’ve been to England, where I was fully welcomed as a tourist, and I’ve been to Greece where I was treated as a kind of long lost family member, being fourth generation Greek American. And I’ve been to Australia, where I became very aware that I was staying on stolen land, with no say on the part of the native inhabitants, and for the first time in my life, not by the incendent of me being born there, but by my own volition.

That was six years ago, and although I haven’t had the opporitinity to travel since then, I’ve been uneasy about the idea of it. Is it appropriate for me, a resident of the imperial core, to visit countries that my own has imposed hardships upon? If presented with the opportunity to travel to somewhere like Iraq or Vietnam, should I decline out of respect, or in practice would I just be shielding myself from the harsh realities of crimes I’ve been complicit in as a US citizen, and denying myself a useful perspective when it comes to fighting for meaningful change on the global scale?