Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. Marx, Private Property and Communism (1844) Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement […]
The communist movement from the early 1800s to the 1970s was a subjective intellectual response of revolutionaries, seeking to represent the long-term goal of the proletariat during the period of transition from agriculture to industry. The industrial revolution created new classes evolving in antagonism with feudal society. The new classes (capitalist and proletariat) together constituted […]
The past international associations of communist organizations were each called an “International.” Three Internationals have existed, which corresponded to the three great quantitative stages in developing the industrial revolution and the transition from agriculture to industry. Each of these stages produced its corresponding doctrines of the class struggle, which served as the foundation of each […]
Our movement suffers in the first place, ideologically, as well as in practical and organisational respects, from its state of fragmentation, from the almost complete immersion of the overwhelming majority of Social-Democrats in local work, which narrows their outlook, the scope of their activities, and their skill in the maintenance of secrecy and their preparedness. […]
The Manifesto of the Communist Party is the greatest statement of scientific communism ever written and the most influential political doctrine in human history. Authored in 1848 by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, affectionately called “the Manifesto,” it is the first published general view of what Marx and Engels called the “science of society.” The […]
Marxists’ analysis of all phenomena, as Engels said, is from the point of view of its: constant motion, change, transformation, development; and the internal connection that makes a continuous whole of all this movement and development. We see the Communist League as an integral part and the result of the class struggle of the international […]
Communism and Marxism are different. Communism is a striving and goal for society. Marxism is a social science which describes why society transitions from one mode of production to the next. Marxism is also a philosophy based on materialism and dialectics. Nor are communism and socialism the same. The socialist countries of the 20th century […]
The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern and also known as the Third International, was founded March 1919 in Moscow. The Comintern was formed on the basis of the 1917 Great October Socialist Revolution and the establishment of Soviet power in Russia, in the environment of emergence of US financial-industrial imperialism (monopoly capitalism) on the […]
Nelson Peery (June 22, 1923-September 6, 2015) earned himself an honorable and distinctive place and mention in the Marxist movement and the development of the science of society. In the 1970s Nelson became a rallying point and then a mobilizing force of a distinct post-Khrushchev Marxism-Leninism. His understanding of the social movement was shaped […]
London, December 28, 1886 Marx-Engels Correspondence 1886 Engels to Florence Kelley Wischnewetsky Regarding Engels Preface to the American publication of Engels’ History of the Working Class in England. My preface will of course turn entirely on the immense stride made by the American working man in the last ten months, and naturally also touch H.G. […]