Hello everyone, welcome to Theory Thursday! This is a community led project, the point of these posts is to read about 30 minutes of theory every Thursday. Then we discuss with fellow comrades the contents of the reading. This week’s topic we are covering Fredrick Engels’ The Principles of Communism, parts 1-13.

The reading: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm

Discussion

  1. What was bad about the text?
  2. What was good about the text?
  3. Overall, how can we apply this reading to our current conditions?

Next week we will be discussing parts 14-25 of the text. Have a good week comrades, until next time!

  • cucumovirus@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    If I were to hazard a guess, that would be one of the reasons why the Settler States of Amerika managed to both pass and maintain so many explicitly racist laws

    Yes, it’s a factor for sure. Another is the fact that the US was from the start designed to be a racial state, and with the genocide of the natives and the stealing of the land, the enslavement of black people, and a constant influx of white settlers from Europe who were allowed to participate in the “white democracy” at least partially, the racial lines were firmly established and persisted even long after the military defeat of the Southern states in the civil war. Similar racial states were also South Africa and Rhodesia, for example, which also managed to keep their racial regimes longer than most other former colonial states.