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Bashing the Fash
* BASHING *
The Fash
- An essay by Axel Stålnacke -
Fascism is, in certain aspects, more like a religion than an ideology; it usually glorifies certain individuals to the level of perceived divinity and it is almost entirely based upon faith (faith being defined as belief despite lack of evidence). The arguments presented by fascists are analogous to those used by creationists. They go on about how the distance between various continents combined with the time their populations have been separated would be enough to create substantial genetic changes, despite all of modern biology not just pointing to, but asserting that this is not
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Put it all on Red!
I present to you Comrade Laski’s tale
In modern times it’d read [spoiler alert] epic fail
But this was the sixties/seventies
The decade of strange amenities
Laski was another American Red
This time even his own Comrades thought him better dead
Laski & Co backed the Chairman Mao
To the Bourgeoisie they said `Kapow!`
But Groups for Peoples Armed Defence
Cost quite a lot in dollars and pence
But Laski had a plan that would turn the tide
He’d go to Vegas and let it all ride!
As we know Lady Luck is quite fickle
Even to those shaded by the Hammer & Sickle
To his eternal regret
He lost every bet
And showing judgement quite poo
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CPDA Group Policy 2012
CPDA Group Policy 2012
COMMUNIST PARTY OF DEVIANT ART REVISED GROUP POLICY.
Dear comrades of the CPDA,
Effective immediately, there are further changes to our group policy. These changes have been implemented by the Central Committee of the CPDA, and voted into Policy by the Central Executive Committee, in an effort to better serve our goals and mission.
The revised group policy is:
1. The Communist Party of deviantART is designed for numerous variants of communistic thought. Marxists and non-Marxists are welcome. Likewise, other leftists such as anarchists are welcome, and even those who are willing to learn of Communism are welcome. Wh
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Socialist Library (1) Socialism and man in Cuba
"Socialism and man in Cuba" is a tremendous little essay on how socialists should strive to achieve their ends. Che Guevara gives an insightful view on the use of culture, the younger generation's role in the revolution and the individual's role to the whole.
Che begins by explaining just how the Cubans succeeded in overthrowing their corrupt leadership: The masses rallied around a central figurehead that acted as the spear point of progress. Che states that it is the role of revolutionary eliteLenin would call them the Bolsheviksto lead the workers to freedom and to an end of oppression by the imperialist forces set against the
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Socialist Library (1) Socialism and man in Cuba by popov89, literature
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Socialist Library (1) Socialism and man in Cuba
"Socialism and man in Cuba" is a tremendous little essay on how socialists should strive to achieve their ends. Che Guevara gives an insightful view on the use of culture, the younger generation's role in the revolution and the individual's role to the whole.
Che begins by explaining just how the Cubans succeeded in overthrowing their corrupt leadership: The masses rallied around a central figurehead that acted as the spear point of progress. Che states that it is the role of revolutionary eliteLenin would call them the Bolsheviksto lead the workers to freedom and to an end of oppression by the imperialist forces set against the
Socialist Library (2) The Communist Manifesto (1) by popov89, literature
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Socialist Library (2) The Communist Manifesto (1)
I've been foolish more times than I care to mention of jumping too far down a hole without looking. It's for this reason that for the second issue of The Socialist Library I'll be discussing The Communist Manifesto and not, say, Lenin's collected works or why Kerensky was kind of a moron. What good is understanding a system without knowing the basics?
This'll be in two parts so I can focus on both halves of the text with earnest attention. School and life means I can't spend hours cutting into the text with a fine-tooth comb and writing twenty pages about it.
First up is, quite naturally, the first chapter of the text where Marx and Engels
Socialist Library (2) The Communist Manifesto (2) by popov89, literature
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Socialist Library (2) The Communist Manifesto (2)
Chapter three sees Marx and Engels deal with previous forms of socialism and flawed ideologies.
Feudal socialism is detailed as being where the old elements of the landed gentry, the old exploiters, rally against the new industrial bourgeois. We don't see this anymore in this day and age as the landed gentry has truly lost its position of power. My goal with The Socialist Library is not to dwell on the unimportant so I won't be spending much time on this topic as it doesn't concern the modern world nearly as much as it did during Marx's time.
Petty-bourgeois socialism is however still important today. This is when the small owners of capita
The Socialist Library (3) We by popov89, literature
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The Socialist Library (3) We
If the humble reader is anything like me than that means you love dystopias. You love seeing how something can be taken so far from its original purpose and ruin everything for everyone. (*cough*capitalism*cough*) I would also wager that many of my readers come from the west of the world and that means you've grown up reading or hearing about dystopias set under "socialistic" governments: the classic "1984", the insufferable "Atlas Shrugged", "The Giver", etc. The point is that socialism, just like capitalism or democracy or absolutism can fall victim to sin and be ruined in every single way. I plan on reviewing 1984 in the future as a guide
Socialist Library (4) Folly of Singular Terrorism by popov89, literature
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Socialist Library (4) Folly of Singular Terrorism
"Our class enemies are in the habit of complaining about our terrorism They would like to label all the activities of the proletariat directed against the class enemy's interest as terrorism" (Trotsky 5); this is a very astute observation of Trotsky'sit was true in 1911 when he wrote it and it's true now. Communists have long been seen as anarchist rabble with no goal other than throwing a bomb through a train window or shooting politicians over a muddled concept of revolution.
While some of our brothers and sisters have fallen to the sway of this rebel persona, the bulk of us must stay far and away from it. Trotsky argues that th
Socialist Library (6) Animal Farm by popov89, literature
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Socialist Library (6) Animal Farm
Intros are always the hardest thing to write. Grabbing a reader's attention can drive many a writer to the brink of insanity. For this reason, I'll keep this intro fairly short: I fucking hate Joseph Stalin. With every fiber of my being do I wish to tear that man to shredsthe murderer of communism, the tyrant akin to Hitler, the assassin of Trotsky. It's fortunate that there are legions of texts available all too willing to condemn that madman. One of the best texts for its brevity and scathing criticism is "Animal Farm" by George Orwell.
The story is a simple fairy-tale of talking animals, a mean farmer and heroic actions. The twist i
The Socialist Library (5) Trotsky on Fascism by popov89, literature
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The Socialist Library (5) Trotsky on Fascism
We in the modern world like to believe that fascism was defeated through the combined efforts of millions of men with loaded guns and airplanes full of bombs. We are mistaken in this assumption.
Fascism is alive and well, and I'm not talking about the efforts of those dregs of society called Neo-Nazis or any of their utterly horrific way of thinking.
I'm speaking of capitalism and how capitalists and their servants are still and always attempting to recreate fascism at every turn. Leon Trotsky explains: "The historic function of fascism is to smash the working class, destroy its organizations, and stifle its politic liberties when the capit
The Socialist Library (7) The Speech by popov89, literature
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The Socialist Library (7) The Speech
I don't hide my Leninist identity. This means that I don't really support bourgeois-democracy in any real capacity. To do so only reinforces capitalist oppression; everyone knows that right? In any case, Bernie Sanders is the only sane man in Washington. This issue of The Socialist Library will be for any of our social-democrat comrades out there.
"The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of our Middle Class" is a mouthful of a title and a superb book worth a read by any disgruntled American citizen about the excess being exhibited by the bourgeois bankers, the destruction that excess visits upon the entire n
Socialist Library (8) Civil Disobedience by popov89, literature
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Socialist Library (8) Civil Disobedience
Should good men obey unjust laws? The answer to that question is one built for every person. Henry Thoreau thinks otherwise. In "Civil Disobedience" he argues that if one does not agree with a law than one should just stop doing it; period, end of sentence, that easy.
As a result of that thinking, Thoreau comes off as a petulant child in this essay.
He spent a day in jail for not paying a measly poll-tax and complained about government oversight and how its power is naturally unjust and that government is only ever about the powerful forcing everyone else to do things for the bad men. It makes sense to assume that Thoreau had been pondering
Socialist Library (9) The Revolution Betrayed 1/3 by popov89, literature
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Socialist Library (9) The Revolution Betrayed 1/3
A wise man learns from his mistakes; it is only the fool that seeks to stay rut in his ways, uneager to move even though he sees a torrent coming his way or repeating a past mistake. We communists have much in the history of mistakes to sort through. Of this, there is shame in past failings, but much to learn and a passion to redeem ourselves.
Leon Trotsky’s “The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going?” is one of the best pieces of wisdom for any socialist to read through in order to understand the inherent failings of the Stalinist system and how communism is vastly different from the police