From the Field, to the Factory, to the Street – Nelson Peery

Society is formed on the basis of the unity of productive forces and productive relations. Productive relations are the laws defining property and the relationship of people to property in the process of production. The constant, spontaneous development of the productive forces eventually disrupts that unity. An epoch of social revolution creates new productive relations […]

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. […]

Dialectics of the Development of the Communist League – Communist League 1972

  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 […]

Nelson Peery’s Legacy Matters – Darryl “Waistline” Mitchell

  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 […]

Quote of the Day – Karl Marx

At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations […]

Communism

Communism Today: Distribution According to Need What is communism? What is socialism? Americans today are increasingly asking themselves these questions as they seek answers to the poverty and violence of daily life in a capitalist economy. Is it true that there is simply no alternative to the mind-numbing destruction and waste of modern capitalism? Do […]