5 Aug 2026, 16:47 UTC212 views13 reactionsread 7 August 2026 What a torch of reason ceased to burn,
What a heart has ceased to beat!
On August 5 (new style), 1895, Frederick Engels died in London. After his friend Karl Marx (who died in 1883), Engels was the finest scholar and teacher of the modern proletariat in the whole civilised world. From the time that fate brought Karl Marx and Frederick Engels together, the two friends devoted their life’s work to a common cause. And …
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3 Aug 2026, 18:48 UTC265 views12 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
Cientos de miles de obreros son trasladados de este modo a centenares y millares de verstas. El capitalismo avanzado los absorbe a la fuerza en su vorágine, les arranca de sus comarcas atrasadas, hace de ellos participantes del movimiento histórico-universal y les pone frente a frente de la poderosa, unida e internacional clase de los industriales.
No cabe duda de que sólo la extrema miseria obliga a la gente a aban…
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2 Aug 2026, 10:14 UTC362 views13 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
What is good for the ruling class, is alleged to be good for the whole of society with which the ruling class identifies itself.
Frederick Engels
Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State
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30 Jul 2026, 08:49 UTC437 views19 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
What else does the history of ideas prove, than that intellectual production changes its character in proportion as material production is changed? The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
When people speak of the ideas that revolutionise society, they do but express that fact that within the old society the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the ol…
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25 Jul 2026, 20:03 UTC678 views15 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
Those who recognize only the class struggle are not yet Marxists; they may be found to be still within the bounds of bourgeois thinking and bourgeois politics. To confine Marxism to the theory of the class struggle means curtailing Marxism, distorting it, reducing it to something acceptable to the bourgeoisie. Only he is a Marxist who extends the recognition of the class struggle to the recognition of the dictatorshi…
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24 Jul 2026, 14:26 UTC632 views17 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. Champions of reforms and improvements will always be fooled by the defenders of the old order until they realise that every old institution, how ever…
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22 Jul 2026, 02:00 UTC608 views24 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
V. I. Lenin - Painting by Vladimir Tsyplakov (1960)
All bourgeois parties, all parties except the working-class revolutionary Party, are liars & hypocrites when they speak about reforms.
Vladimir Lenin
Letter to the Secretary of the Socialist Propaganda League
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16 Jul 2026, 12:48 UTC846 views20 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
the realm of freedom actually begins only where labour which is determined by necessity and mundane considerations ceases
Karl Marx
Capital: Volume 3
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15 Jul 2026, 13:54 UTC673 views18 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
There's no one more alive than Lenin in the world,
our strength, our wisdom,
surest of our weapons.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1924)
By VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY
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9 Jul 2026, 11:56 UTC972 views19 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
It must never for a moment lose sight of our ultimate goal, but always carry on propaganda for the proletarian ideology —the theory of scientific socialism, viz., Marxism—guard it against distortion, and develop it further. We must untiringly combat any and every bourgeois ideology, regardless of the fashionable and striking garb in which it may drape itself.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Political Agitation and “The Class …
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2 Jul 2026, 22:13 UTC975 views17 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Petty-bourgeois socialism expresses the dream of the small proprietor of how to abolish the distinction between rich and poor. Petty-bourgeois socialism assumes that it is possible for all to become “equalised” proprietors, neither poor nor rich; and so the petty-bourgeois socialists draft Bills providing for universal and equalised land tenure. But in reality, poverty and want cannot be abolished in the way the smal…
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26 Jun 2026, 10:41 UTC≈1,120 views23 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
Capital is an international force. To vanquish it, an international workers’ alliance, an international workers’ brotherhood, is needed.
We are opposed to national enmity and discord, to national exclusiveness. We are internationalists. We stand for the close union and the complete amalgamation of the workers and peasants of all nations in a single world Soviet republic.
V. I. Lenin
Letter to the Workers and Peasan…
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