The Free State of Jones – Movie Review Part II – Darryl Waistline Mitchell

PART II III. “Jump back . . . Jim Crow . . ..” The reactionary quest of Redemption for its pound of flesh, to experience fulfillment and regain its former status, is/was the never satisfied hunger of the white obesity, in freshly pressed white cloth. The thirst became the slaughter of a people. “There’s more […]

The Free State of Jones – Movie Review Part I- Darryl Waistline Mitchell

PART I The Free state of Jones is the story of how the plantation South lost everything . . . including its mutherfuckin mind . . . forever. The ideology of colonialism held together all the classes, whose livelihood, one way or another, was dependent upon keeping the slave proletariat in chains. The plantation South […]

WordaDay – Marxist Glossary 3.0 – Democratic Centralism

  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.” […]

WordaDay – Marxist Glossary 3.0 – The three Internationals’ history, doctrine and political-economic context:

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 […]

WordaDay – Marxist Glossary 3.0 – International communist organizations (1848–1943)

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 […]

Lenin – Where to Begin – Excerpt

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. […]