/mlg/ - Marxism Leninism general

Greetings Comrades

This thread is for the discussion of any and all left-wing political ideology, including, but not limited to, Marxism/Socialism/Communism/Anarchi

>Socialism is an economic and social system defined by social ownership of the means of production. (Workers democratically own and operate the places in which they work, as opposed to private power aka capitalism)

>The means of production are non-human inputs the create economic value, such as factories, workplaces, industrial machinery, etc. Socialists refer to the means of production as capital, or private property. Private property in the socialist context shouldn't be confused with personal property, such as your home, car, computer, and other possessions.

>In a capitalist society the means of production are owned and controlled privately, by those that can afford them (the capitalist aka those with capital). Production is carried out to benefit the capitalist (production for profit). Workers are paid a wage, and receive that amount regardless of how much value they produce.

>Communism is the highest developed stage of socialism wherein there is no state, no money, no class system. The means of production are owned by all and provide for everyone's needs.

Resources:

ABC's of Socialism: s3.jacobinmag.com/issues/ja

Introduction to Marxism by Professor Richard D. Wolff: [YouTube] Crisis and Openings: Introduction to Marxism - Richard D Wolff (embed) [Open] [Open]

Selections of Left-wing Literature:
Anarchist:
theanarchistlibrary.org/lib

Libertarian:
Mikhail Bakunin - God and the State (short read)
Thomas Paine - Agrarian Justice
Noam Chomsky - Notes on Anarchism
Anton Pannekoek - Worker's Councils

Marxist-Leninist:
marxists.org/archive/ma

Other urls found in this thread:

marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/
twitter.com/SFWRedditImages

also leftism meme dump

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another meme

don't forget the alt right bean man

who?

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feudalism

he's the alt right's alleged new leader, use it against them

Hows this?

pretty good!

check

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here is a revised version of your version

Nice.

People say that in Communism the "means of production" is owned by "the people", but in practice, that just means it's owned by the state, along with everything else.

Communism, in practice, is indistinguishable from fascism. Prove me wrong (you can't).

even better. their bean man will never recover

And you support fascism don't you? Also the unions should control the means of production.

check this.

New mem?

oh and the government should regulate the unions so they don't fight.

yes.

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here's one with a mustache.

Hi OP. Gib foreskin.

What do you think of commie alt-right been man?

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Nice. See if you can copy Stalins mustache on his face.

with mustache

I dropped my cell phone and broke it. Give me yours OP.

What is the ethical justification behind most socialist theories? Especially the justification for equality, liberty, etc.

Any recommended reading on this that isn't Enlightenment stuff?

>10,000 hours of socially necessary labour time in paint

Also what do you guys think of Henry George?

Daily reminder this thread is a reddit psyop.

Sage.

Marxism doesn't openly deal with ethics or morality or derive its argument from the two; it is concerned with a historical teleology, you could probably make the claim that it has Teleological ethics I guess but Marxists generally aren't concerned with this.

The German Ideology

marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/

Is probably the best goto for familiarizing your self with the Marxist worldview.

Anarchism, I believe, often deals with ethics and morality but I can't give a good enough answer as to where you should look.

There has got to be some kind of ethical background to the various types of Marxism. I know Marxism is technically just a way of interpreting history, but all the political movements that sprung up from it must justify themselves somehow

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Marx never took the time or had the interest to codify a set of ethics or morality, he basically views them as idealism with little, or at least a secondary effect, on the movement of history and societies. The closest detectable set of ethics in Marx is a Teleological one which you generally see replicated in orthodox Marxist groups.

Their is also a sizeable portion of essentially revisionist Marxists that have found justification in all sorts of ethical, moral or theological theories.