GIFT FROM CHINA: KARL MARX WELCOMED BACK IN HIS HOMETOWN! As previously reported on this blog, the People’s Republic of China has sponsored a statue
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GIFT FROM CHINA: KARL MARX WELCOMED BACK IN HIS HOMETOWN! As previously reported on this blog, the People’s Republic of China has sponsored a statue
Marx and Engels developed this thinking during the 19th century, whilst Lenin, Stalin and Mao (amongst others) developed the dialectical thinking that defines Scientific Socialism for the 20th century. Trotskyism, of course, is something of a ‘still birth’ within Revolutionary thinking, a dialectical dead-end that impersonates certain aspects of Marxism, whilst surrendering to every aspect of the capitalist system and making peace with its oppressive nature.
It is fair to say that revisionism abounds throughout the left in the UK (and the Western world). This attitude has its roots in US
We marched as a family today – although our eldest daughter Mei-An was at school. She has marched in many processions over the years before
This means that Labour ‘rejects’ the Marxist ideology that racism has its roots within the exploitative division of labour that defines the capitalist system. As this is the case, Labour finds itself adopting the bourgeois response of sentimentalism and token politics.
Conformist Revolutionaries are easy to spot. They state (without any reliable evidence) that Mao and Stalin were tyrants and mass killers, and that Hitler was a very maligned and misunderstood world leader (conformist Revolutionaries, whilst having no time for Marx or Lenin, nevertheless are perfectly willing to entertain the thought that Hitler might have been ‘innocent’ of the crimes he committed).