Communism is not merely a collection of theories for struggle; it is a profound commitment to proletarian and communist values. The resentment, anger, and solidarity of communists are deeply rooted in class struggle—a struggle born from the alienation of humanity under the brutality of the capitalist system. The slander, insults, lies, and, ultimately, the discrediting of communists, have a long and entrenched history.
The Třídní Válka group (Class War), unable to challenge the foundational principles or the century-long legacy of the Communist Left, has resorted to desperate measures. It has adopted superficial, vulgar language and descended into debased level of discourse, resorting to crude insults and slander against the Communist Left and its various currents. This book is in defence of history and legacy of the Communist Left.
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Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Prague Action Week
• The Rhetorics of Třídní Válka
• Vulgar Propaganda
• Popular or Class Struggle
• Proletarian Battles and the Silence of Třídní Válka
• The Student Movement as an Advanced Manifestation of the Proletariat
• Class Violence or Adventurism
• Popular Protests or the Proletariat’s Struggle to Overthrow Capitalism
• Popular Struggles Reflect the Proletarian Uprising in Kenya, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
• The Struggle Against Occupiers as an Expression of Class Warfare
• The Uprising of the Muslim Brotherhood or the Days of the Paris Commune
• The Ransacking of the National Transitional Council’s Headquarters by the Proletariat
• The Class System as the Root of Women’s Oppression
• Disbelief in the Proletariat as a Social Class
• Workers’ Self-Management Means Organizing Workers’ Self-Exploitation
• Marxism Versus Anarchism
• The Role of Revolutionaries
• The Zimmerwald Conference
• Renaming Social Democracy to Communism
• Stalinism Is the Mortal Enemy of Bolshevism
• The Concept of World Revolution
• The Claimed Minimum Programme
• The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• Rosa Luxemburg and the Struggle for Communist Revolution
• Who Are the Internationalists?
• The Communist Left, the Only Horizon
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Basic Positions
Comments
Who's the bloke on the right…
Who's the bloke on the right? Engels after his facial reconstruction surgery?
Sort of looks like Makhno…
Sort of looks like Makhno actually
[]iInternational Voice[/i]: …
International Voice:
Marx's exaltation of the role violence (physical force) has in our class struggle is reprehensible?
Manifesto of the communist party, 1848
More concerning is what…
More concerning is what happened to AI-Engels' beard! There are no known photos of Engels without a beard to my knowledge, so it's pretty presumptuous for the AI to have just assumed what a beardless Engels would have looked like and to place him next to a fully bearded Marx.
(I also have to say that AI is such a bummer as far as creativity goes. People are now just going to use AI to create beardless depictions of Engels, write entire books/articles, compose entire albums and works of art, etc. What's the point of anything then? I mean yes, AI will help to cure various diseases and cancers and probably hasten the collapse of capitalism, but are erroneous depictions of Engels really worth it? That's it! Who wants to go full Luddite with me against AI?! AI rant over.)
Just so I'm not accused of…
Just so I'm not accused of judging a book by its lazy AI cover art (at least get a proper AI image of Engels if you're going to venerate him and Marx, without ever having actually read them), here are the contents of the work:
Yes, how dare anyone insult the integrity of Lenin—who wrote an entire pamphlet characterizing left communists as being afflicted with an "infantile disorder" and who persecuted left communists like Miasnikov for his audacity to argue for workers' control over production!
Yes! Precisely the opposite of what Marx and Engels had argued with respect to the Russian peasantry!, in which they wrote that there was a potential for Russia to avoid capitalist development on the basis of the Russian mir! (Obviously the condition of the Russian peasantry had also changed from the time when Marx and Engels were writing to the time when Lenin was writing, but Internationalist Voice doesn't seem to consider that when comparing Lenin's writings on the peasantry to Kropotkin's.)
Ha! Oh please—take this nonsense down. Why are you even posting here?
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It was under your hero Lenin when the communist left in Russia was persecuted and worker uprisings like the Kronstadt Revolt violently suppressed! Stalin to a large extent simply carried on this work of purging and murdering all of the more genuine communist figures that Lenin had begun. As I mentioned, Lenin also wrote an entire pamphlet criticizing left communists like Pankhurst and others, which you don't even mention in this text it seems. You even have the gall, or rather the ignorance, to put a picture of Miasnikov right next to the above passage, when it was Lenin who played a major part in having him expelled from the Communist Party and subsequently imprisoned.[1] It was Stalin who finished the job by duping Miasnikov into returning to Russia after the Second World War, where he was promptly murdered.
1. See Avrich for example: