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 […]
The social division of labor is the separation of society into different spheres of work, and on a broader social level, the separation of society into social/economic classes. The initial spontaneous division of labor was natural, based on biological sex, childbearing, and age groups, young and old. In primitive society productive activity was based on […]
Women were the first oppressed social group in human society, and planet-wide woman remains the “slave of a slave” and faces the greatest societal violence, murder, repression, insults and humiliations in every country. A determined, immediate and continuous struggle against material privilege, war and violence is not only morally correct but a precondition for the […]
Mother-right described stable ancient communities with an established and prescribed pattern of observance of societal roles in which there were no classes, no inequality and no uncompensated, exploited labor. Mother-right was a pattern of family life based on the natural division of labor. It held sway until the breakup of the primitive communal system and […]
Male supremacy is built into the architecture of bourgeois productive relations. It justifies the domination of men over women, and is a weapon the capitalists use to pay women less and reap billions of dollars in profit from their super-exploitation. The origin of male supremacy coincided with the initial creation of private property, the division […]
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 […]