Democratic centralism was the organizational form of revolutionary organizations/parties in the industrial era. Under democratic centralism, democracy meant collective discussion and decision making, while centralism was individual responsibility to carry out the decisions. It is a principle of organization pioneered by Vladimir Lenin and constituted the foundation of his “party of a new type.” […]
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 […]
Division of labor: The social division of labor is the separation of the labor process into different tasks and spheres of work in the production of things, not only on a personal-biological level but on a broader social level. The initial spontaneous division of labor was natural, based on the division of labor between in […]
Anarchy of capitalist production flows from the private ownership of production and the wage labor system. Individual corporations produce for the market, competing for consumers’ dollars, seeking to expand production and to put their competitors out of business. This anarchy results in cyclical crisis of overproduction. No one knows how much of his particular article […]
The bourgeois mode of commodity production, capitalism, is commodity production based on socialized means of production, the factory system and bourgeois private property, that is, the buying and selling of labor-power. Capitalism is competition between capitalists for customers, anarchy of production and competition between the laborers for wages. It is commodity production at its highest […]
Colonialism: Derived from the Latin word colere, “to inhabit,” colonialism describes the domination of land and subjugation of peoples brought into the property relations and social order of the colonizers. Colonialism appeared thousands of year ago with the rise of private property and the slave mode of production. The colonial form of development continued under […]
Race is a belief, an ideology and bourgeois doctrine, which states that humanity consists of different species groups at different evolutionary stages of biological development, and by default the ruling class is genetically superior and engineered to rule over the earth and the people of the world. Racism justifies class rule and exploitation of labor. […]
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 […]
The general crisis of capitalism was the political-military antagonism between world imperialism and Soviet power. The 1917 Soviet revolution ushered in the general crisis of capitalism after the Bolsheviks established the military dictatorship of the proletariat and placed 1/6 of the world under proletarian rule, and out of reach of the imperialists. Political-military antagonism combined […]