These attacks do not exist in a vacuum. They are calculated attempts to discredit Marxism as a theory of revolutionary change. The ruling class is terrified of a united working class that organizes across racial and gender identities.
Politicians and media pundits like to use the term democracy, but that is just a veil to hide the actual workings of the capitalist system. Pull back the veil and what we have is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
Socialism, communism, and fascism are terms that are often misused. Only by educating ourselves on their true meanings can we begin to understand the important distinctions between them.
This is a fact that is largely ignored today. The bourgeoisie have turned King into a hero by creating an inaccurate version of him that leaves out his revolutionary anti-capaitalist beliefs.
It is impossible to have an ideological discussion in good faith when people have been misled on the actual meanings of the terms in question.Â
The Communist Manifesto may be in the news lately because of Grimes’ trolling of the paparazzi, but it truly is one of the most important pieces ever published.
“That this dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.”
UBI is both an important topic in its own right and a useful lens for examining recurrent virtues and vices in projects of partial decommodification and universal provision.
