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Proletarian Feminism The theoretical and practical development of the struggle against patriarchy from the perspective of the proletariat and revolutionary communist politics. Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement By Anuradha Ghandy The first seminal trend on proletarian feminism, Ghandy makes a historical materialist analysis of all major trends that have existed in the global feminist movement, highlighting the lessons learned from both  their advancements and their eventual shortcomings. In her conclusion, Ghandy highlights the collective errors of all these movements and through this criticism, the first lines for proletarian feminism can be deciphered.   Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale By Maria Meis Maria Meis looks back at the social origins of the sexual division of labour. Interlinking the processes of colonisation, "housewifization" and imperialism, Meis develops an advanced understanding of women's oppression  while placing them in the inter...

This blog will discuss about the journey to the communist society with respect to Marxism in most simplified terms. This module doens't explain any Detailed definitions. I prepared this thread for the beginners who want to learn Marxism.   Economic crisis. This is exactly as it sounds. Capitalism has a pattern of recessions and depressions. Capitalism is unstable. As the system moves further along, these economic downturns become more and more frequent eventually leading to collapse.  Immiseration of the Proletariat. These economic crises impact the lower and middle class more, plunging them deeper into poverty and eventually making the inequality of capitalism impossible to ignore. As the exploitation continues, it will strengthen the working class.  Revolutionary Class Consciousness. The class divide becomes too obvious to ignore. This causes the working class to critically examine the situation gaining them class consciousness and making them realize the ruling class m...

Dialectics Dialectics is the law that explains the development of all phenomena through the antagonisms that exist in the unit .  Through this process, a partially qualitative change occurs within the phenomena and brings forth a new set of antagonism. All existing phenomena have a dialectical nature. THE DEVELOPMENT OF DIALECTICAL THOUGHT The Dialectics of Heraclitus, Aristotle • Spontaneous Materialist Dialectics of Ancient Greece "Primitive, naive but intrinsically correct conception of the world is that of Ancient Greek Philosophy, and was first clearly formulated by  Heraclitus: everything is and is not, for everything is fluid and constantly changing, constantly coming into being and passing away." - Friedrich Engels  THE DIALECTICS OF KANT, FICHTE, SCHELLING, HEGEL Idealist Dialectics of German Philosophers "The law of transformation of quantity into quality and vice versa; the law of interpenetration of opposites; the law of the negation of the negation of all th...

Joseph Stalin (Born on the 18th of December 1878, Georgia) was the General Secretary of the USSR from 1929-1953. Joseph Stalin was famous for his role in the defeat of Nazi Germany in WW2, and his success in converting the USSR from a poor  agricultural country into a large industrialized superpower. Sadly, Stalin's legacy has been demonized throughout his life. He has been accused of murdering up to 23 million people, but of course, this is false. Let's discuss who Stalin really was and how he shaped the USSR. STALIN'S EARLY LIFE Stalin was born in a small town in Georgia which wasunder the rule of the Russian Empire. Stalin's dad, Besarion Jughashvili, was a shoemaker who made very low wages. Stalin's mother wanted Stalin to become a priest, so she sent him to Church in Gori. When Stalin grew older he moved to The Tiflis Theological Seminary, where he received a scholarship. At the Seminary, Stalin secretly read Marxist theory, which was prohibited by the Russian ...

Let's start with this simple quadratic equation x² + 2x + 5 = 0 If you've learned about quadratics in high school, you know about the discriminant Δ and how it's sign is used to determine the number of quadratic's solutions.  In this case the Δ = -16 Since it's negative there should be no solutions, and there indeed are no solutions. REAL solutions. However we can EXTEND real numbers to make this equation solvable. That's where "i" comes into the game.  The number "i" called imaginary unit, is defined as one of the solutions to x² + 1 = 0 (the other one is -i). It is NOT a real number, but it can be used to extend them to COMPLEX NUMBERS, which are numbers of the form a + ib, where a and b are real numbers.  Concept of COMPLEX NUMBERS is very important in mathematics as they show up in almost every field and they are simply useful. But the question is, DO THEY EVEN EXIST?! Before answering this question, let's look into the history of com...

The "so-called socialists" are divided into three categories. Reactionary Socialists This category consists of adherents of a feudal and patriarchal society which has already been destroyed, and is still daily being destroyed, by big industry and world trade and their creation, bourgeois society.  This category concludes, from the evils of existing society, that feudal and patriarchal society must be restored because it was free of such evils. In one way or another, all their proposals are directed to this end.  This category of reactionary socialists, for all their seeming partisanship and their scalding tears for the misery of the proletariat, is nevertheless energetically opposed by the communists for the following reasons:  • It strives for something which is entirely impossible. • It seeks to establish the rule of the aristocracy, the guildmasters, the small producers, and their retinue of absolute or feudal monarchs, officials, soldiers, and priests –  a societ...