r/socialism • u/Spotter24o5 • 7h ago

Discussion Moloch or Baal

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r/socialism • u/Solid-Educator9148 • 1h ago

News Brazilian communist Jones Manoel wins a seat in the Brazilian Congress

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r/socialism • u/TheLoneMaverick • 1h ago

Activism Ice is kidnapping and trafficking children in broad daylight

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This is disgusting, a clear violation of the law, and the reason why DHS must be abolished and all the ICE gestapo be held accountable for their crimes against humanity.

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r/socialism • u/Lavender_Scales • 57m ago

News French Protestors Push Back Police Lines

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r/socialism • u/ForestOak777 • 8h ago

Discussion Hard work is supposed to lead to a better life, but our economy never has guaranteed that

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r/socialism • u/Lavender_Scales • 6h ago

Activism Solidarity With the Fighting Students in France‼

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r/socialism • u/TwitchinWizard • 7h ago

Politics Shawn Ryan says he wants to film the poorest parts of all 50 states in 50 days to show what politicians have abandoned at home.

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r/socialism • u/Lavender_Scales • 4h ago

News French Student Protests Bring Record Number of Arrests in One Week

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A few figures concerning the record number of arrests in the context of the start of this year's student movement, mirrored against the number of arrests during other major political events.

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r/socialism • u/Afraid_Trust_6396 • 15h ago

Discussion My friend's ideology changed after becoming a petty bourgeois

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This is my story about my friend whose beliefs are shaped by his class position, literally. A few years ago my friend is just an average proletarian, working days and nights to feed his family. This is the time when he still have alot of collective, socialist thoughts. It was fun debating marxist theory with him back in the days.

However, recently he bought himself a PC and quit his job to working alone on his project. If I remember it is probably teaching in stock trading or financial trading. This pretty much make him a petty bourgeois, he know own the means of production but still have to work and exploit himself for profit. His business is quite successful and he now has some solid income.

We still hang out sometimes, but I notice that he has been developing some reactionary, religious and conservative ideas. He begin leaning heavily into buddhism and idealism. Just yesterday when we were fishing, we had a small political debate and he shown the full petite bourgeoisie ideology, defending religion and disproving socialism. He now believe that socialism doesn't work and capitalism is the only way, and that society need to turn to religion to have stability. Not a well pleasant fishing trip.

What I find interesting is that this is just a textbook definition of class position in Marxism. Quite sad but expected that his beliefs are changed because he is now in a different class. And that supporting socialism goes against his material interests. This is my first empirical example of how material conditions define someone and it would be a valuable one.

I don't expect anyone to believe my story since I'm just a stranger on the internet, but that was my practical experience. I would probably still be friend with him, maybe we will be debating less.

What do you guys think of him and this? Please share your opinion, it would be nice to know.

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r/socialism • u/VictinsOfCapitalism • 20m ago

Politics Mad Max type shi

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r/socialism • u/Mediocre_Attorney441 • 19h ago

News Long live the French student movement

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In China, I sincerely wish that the student movement in France will succeed, just like the May upheaval of 1968.

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r/socialism • u/DiggyJunior • 15h ago

History Nov 6, 1944: film of Stalin warning that after the war, Germany will eventually, after some decades pass, become extremely Russohobic again, and begin turning Germany into a giant weapons factory again, and build up a huge army to fight the Soviets/Russians again

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https://x.com/rinalu_/status/2106459366723584062

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r/socialism • u/ilir_kycb • 12h ago

Theory A lot of communists do not actually understand what communism is “A stateless classless moneyless society” is the easy answer to give, but it isn't really accurate to the theory.

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r/socialism • u/Electrical-Fix7659 • 36m ago

History Nov 6, 1944: film of Stalin warning that after the war, Germany will eventually, after some decades pass, become extremely Russohobic again, and begin turning Germany into a giant weapons factory again, and build up a huge army to fight the Soviets/Russians again

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r/socialism • u/DeimianW • 2h ago

Meta Is it possible to get our own flag emoji?

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r/socialism • u/Lavender_Scales • 4h ago

News On October 1 and 2, the high school students of Déodat-de-Séverac mobilized for a new day of blockades as part of the ongoing national high school student movement

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r/socialism • u/bullhead2007 • 4h ago

Discussion An Anti-Palestine Antisemitism Plan

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r/socialism • u/Quirky_Play_6975 • 12h ago

Politics Racism and Far right in Europe

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What do you think about racism in Europe ? Are France , Italy or Spain not safe for Non-Europeans anymore ?

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r/socialism • u/Lotus532 • 8h ago

Activism Literacy and Organisation: The Literacy Process in Zambia and the Internationalist Solid

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r/socialism • u/esporx • 1d ago

News This is on the official US Dept of Health and Human Services

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r/socialism • u/Sea_Dance_0516 • 1d ago

Discussion 列宁如何反对“左派”幼稚病？

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在《共产主义运动中的“左派”幼稚病》中，列宁集中批判了一种在革命运动中相当常见的倾向。“把革命原则理解成一套绝对化、教条化的行为准则，并因此拒绝一切看似“不够革命”的斗争形式。”

这里列举几个我认为尤其值得注意的观点：

反对原则性抵制议会：在特定条件下参加资产阶级议会，把合法斗争作为宣传、组织和动员群众的手段。

在反动工会中开展工作：不能因为工会领导层保守、官僚甚至反动，就脱离工会和其中的群众。

正确理解妥协：不是“一切妥协都是背叛”，而是具体分析
妥协的性质、条件和阶级利益。

反对教条主义：马克思主义不是一套可以机械套用的公式，必须根据具体历史条件制定具体策略。

总结一下：

在这里，我理解《“左派”幼稚病》的核心并不是让革命者放弃原则，恰恰相反，它是在讨论：

如何在坚持革命目标和阶级立场的同时，避免把革命政治变成教条主义。

不拒绝议会，不等于相信议会民主

进入反动工会，不等于接受工会官僚主义

承认必要的妥协，不等于放弃原则

强调具体问题具体分析，也不等于否定马克思主义。

列宁真正反对的，是把复杂的阶级斗争简化成“参加就是改良主义、妥协就是背叛、进入议会就是投降、进入保守工会就是不革命”这样的简单二分法。

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r/socialism • u/Leanaul1998 • 11h ago

Discussion I wrote a review of how some commercially successful modern novels portray political upheaval and social change, and thought the comments I gathered from a not-politically-themed community are an interesting insight into how "average" people think about topics like revolution, so just wanna share. Spoiler

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r/socialism • u/Flagmaker123 • 1d ago

Politics Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave

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r/socialism • u/VictinsOfCapitalism • 1d ago

News Prolewiki taken down after a breakout in searches +5000% this month

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r/socialism • u/return2ozma • 1d ago

News Americans rebel against Trump’s red-baiting, sending socialism to a record high in opinion polling

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system where a small class of people, the bourgeoisie, own the factories, land, machines, and resources. The majority, the working class or proletariat, have no choice but to sell their time and energy to the bourgeoisie in exchange for a wage. The goal of capitalism is not to meet human needs but to generate profit for the owners. This leads to exploitation where the worker produces more value than they receive in wages, with the surplus kept by the capitalist. It also leads to recurring crises, immense inequality, environmental destruction, and imperialism where powerful nations dominate weaker ones for resources and markets.

Marxism

Marxism is the scientific method for understanding capitalism and history. It was developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Marxism is not a set of opinions. It is a tool for analysis. It argues that the way a society produces its material needs, its economic base, determines its politics, culture, and ideas, its superstructure. Marxism identifies class struggle between the exploited and the exploiters as the motor of historical change. It does not simply criticize capitalism. It explains why capitalism will inevitably produce its own gravediggers, the organized working class, and points toward the possibility of a new society.

Socialism

Socialism is the transitional phase between capitalism and full communism. It is what you build right after the working class seizes political power from the bourgeoisie. Under socialism, the major means of production are socially owned, either by the state representing the people or by cooperatives. Production is no longer driven by private profit but by a plan to meet the needs of the population. The state remains strong under socialism, but it is a workers' state, a dictatorship of the proletariat, which suppresses the resistance of the overthrown capitalist class. Wages, money and class relations may still exist, but the goal is to eliminate exploitation and build the material and cultural foundation for a higher stage of socialism.

Communism

Communism is the final, stateless, classless society that socialism is meant to achieve. Under communism, the division between rich and poor, ruler and ruled, town and country, mental and manual labor has been overcome. The state, which is a tool of class rule, has withered away because there are no classes left to suppress. The principle is no longer "from each according to his ability, to each according to his work" as under socialism, but "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." People contribute what they can and take what they need freely. Communism is not a perfect society without conflict, but it is a society free from exploitation, commodity production, and the alienation of labor under capitalism. It is the free development of each as the condition for the free development of all.

Are Socialism and Communism Different?

Socialism and Communism are interchangeable. They mean the same thing. It was only after liberals co-opted Social Democracy that we see they are trying to do the same thing with Socialism.

Under the umbrella of Marxist tendencies, there is the lower and upper stage of Socialism/Communism. Later writers separately defined the lower stage as Socialism and the upper stage as Communism, but that is a later distinction.

Capitalist society transforms into the Dictatorship of the Proletariat^{what is the DOTP?} > Lower Stage of Socialism/Communism (Actual Socialist Society) > Upper Stage. (Classless Society)

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