Antagonism (class society): In class society, which is founded on private property relations, antagonism is a mode of destruction of an old social and economic order by the new classes and new productive relations that arise and develop based on qualitatively new means of production. Due to the existence of private property and classes, the […]
Leap means transition. The leap is the motion of change from one state to another. It is a break in the gradualness of quantitative change. It occurs through change where an old quality is stage by stage replaced by a new quality. The process of radical change in a given quality, the breakdown of the […]
“Antagonism (philosophy): While implying active hostility and resistance, in Marxist philosophy antagonism also describes a mode of destruction and breakdown of contradiction. Antagonism and contradiction are not the same. Contradiction is the unity and struggle of opposites internal to a process that serves as the basis of development. At a certain stage, under definite conditions, […]
Quality: Quality is the essential character of a particular thing or phenomenon, making it what it is and distinguishing it from other things and phenomena. Quality is the totality of properties that makes a particular thing what it is. Quality is the inseparable specific mark of a thing. It is inseparable because without it 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 […]
Proponents of different forms of socialism advocated for different combinations of public and private ownership of land, housing, public education, health care, primary transportation and socially necessary means of production. During the early stages of industrialism, notions of socialism meant calls to end poverty and regulate private wealth. Socialism was an ideology that sought […]
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 […]
Institute for the Study of the Science of Society “While the people were very much alive, I saw a dead philosophy – Cold War anti-communism and neo-imperialism – walking the corridors of the Pentagon.” US Air Force Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski (retired) speaking about the prevailing mood and decision-making process at the Pentagon, 2004. This […]