Today, the dignity and prestige of our country have reached their highest level.

The Republic’s formidable self-defence capabilities, centred around nuclear weapons, powerfully guarantee the vigorous advancement of the cause of building a strong socialist nation and drive hostile forces, including the US imperialists, into extreme anxiety and fear. However, this does not mean the end of class struggle. On the contrary, the silent confrontation with the enemy is raging even more fiercely.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un stated:

As time passes and the revolution advances, the class struggle to decide who conquers whom becomes more intense. The intensification of class struggle is an universal law under socialism, anyone who denies it is a revisionist.

Class struggle is the struggle to oppose the exploiting class, the exploitative system and the reactionary forces, to eliminate the remnants of the old society, and to defend and realize the independence of the masses.

The exploiting class cannot survive even for a moment without exploiting the masses, and the masses cannot achieve social and political independence without liquidating the exploiting class. Reflecting this fateful confrontation, the class struggle becomes the most uncompromising battle of life and death. In 19th-century Paris, a working-class government emerged for the first time in history. Feeling uneasy, the bourgeoisie resorted to violence, bloodily massacring countless working people. This is vivid evidence of the intensity of the class struggle.

The class struggle intensifies as the masses advance their cause for independence. Even in socialist society, the class struggle continues to rage fiercely.

The establishment of a socialist system eliminates the social roots of class conflict. However, as long as imperialism exists on earth, the activities of class enemies will never cease, and leftovers of outdated ideologies are still deeply rooted among workers. Therefore, even in a socialist society, the struggle against external hostile forces and the remnants of the overthrown exploiting class hidden within, as well as the struggle to free the working people from the shackles of obsolete ideas and to revolutionize and working-classize them, continue unabated. Class struggle in a socialist society is conducted by uncompromising violence against hostile elements and through ideological education to counter the vestiges of outmoded ideas lingering in people’s minds and to educate and remould them along revolutionary lines.

Ideological education aimed at eradicating outdated ideological remnants, including individualism and selfishness, that run counter to socialist ideology is of paramount importance. Raising awareness of the anti-socialist maneuvers of imperialist reactionaries is also a vital issue for the advancement of socialism.

The collapse of socialism in some countries in the past clearly demonstrates the viciousness of the imperialists’ anti-socialist offensive. Imperialists used any means necessary to disintegrate and annihilate socialist countries, including military threats, economic blockades and ideological and cultural infiltration. However, some countries not only neglected the work of suppressing imperialism’s anti-socialist offensive and arming the masses with class consciousness, but also paved the way for the enemy’s ideological and cultural infiltration moves. As a result, people’s class consciousness became blurred and, ultimately, the historical tragedy of the collapse of socialism occurred. The confession of a CIA agent that “the collapse of the former Soviet Union was not a gift by God to America, but a consequence of the policies pursued by the Reagan administration” proves that the collapse of socialism was the product of the anti-socialist maneuvers of class enemies.

The imperialist reactionary forces, led by U.S. imperialism, are now more frantic than ever to obliterate our dignified socialist system. Sensing the approach of destruction amid our powerful advance, our enemies are desperately fighting back.

The more the revolution advances, the more intense the ideological and physical confrontation with our enemies becomes. This is an inviolable law of class struggle.

We must sharpen the blade of the anti-imperialist class struggle and solidify our revolutionary and class positions, always and everywhere, to firmly defend and endlessly glorify our socialist motherland.

In the Last week I had a lot of discussions with some comrades about imperialism. Most of them Support the Analysis from the greek communist Party (KKE), from what I understand they think imperialism is Like a Pyramid. Every country is imperialist but Just Not to the Same deegre. USA in top, followed by china and so on. In there Analysis semi colonial countries Like Brasil are Just weaker imperialist powers with somewhat less sovereignty.

What are good responses to These Claims and how are you able to concretly decribe semi colonial countries? Are there some concrete Points which makes a country still semi colonial or already imperialist?

Are there any active communist forums or online communities in Norway?

I’m looking for Norwegian communities where people actively discuss communism, Marxism, socialist theory, politics, current events, etc.

Preferably something with a decent number of active members and actual ongoing discussions. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a traditional forum -Discord servers or other online communities would also be interesting.

I also speak Norwegian, making this post in English just for more outreach.

Any recommendations?

Been thinking a lot lately about how the conditions for an MLM-type revolution seem more open now than they were for a lot of the revolutions in the 20th century. What would it actually take for something like that to happen today? I know there were MLM orgs around in the past, but do any of them still exist, and what happened to the ones that fell apart? Are there successor groups carrying on that work, or has the movement gone in a different direction? Just something I've been wondering about.

On October 22, 1941, in retaliation for the assassination of a German officer, the Vichy puppet government handed over a list consisting primarily of communist prisoners and trade unionists to the occupying forces.

Among the 27 men executed that day was Guy Môquet, only 17 years old. He refused a blindfold and marched to the firing post singing the Marseillaise. His final letter to his family ended with a plea to those who would survive the war.

To live, fight, and remain worthy of their sacrifice.

i think they are wasted potential.

Political Economy (Socialism) is the English edition of the first Albanian comprehensive scientific work of its kind, prepared by a collective of authors of the Institute of Economic Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania and originally published in 1981. Based on Marxist-Leninist economic theory, the documents of the Party of Labour of Albania and the works of Comrade Enver Hoxha, this book deals with the fundamental problems of the establishment, development and consolidation of the socialist economic system, drawing on the historical experience of the construction and defence of socialism in Albania and the international revolutionary movement. An important place is also given to the principled struggle against the anti-Marxist and bourgeois theories and practices of the modern revisionists concerning the construction of socialism.

The book is divided into three main parts. The first deals with the establishment of the socialist relations of production and the socialist social order. The second examines the system of socialist relations of production, the economic laws governing its development and the process of expanded socialist reproduction. The third deals with the fundamental questions of the transition from socialism to communism and the general features of communist society.

This book is prepared under the editorship of Hekuran Mara, Hasan Banja, Fiqiri Islami, Iliaz Fishta and Veniamin Toçi.

Interesting work, the critiques of Maoism are a product of the context, but an interesting analysis of cultural-ideological Revolution and the continuation of class struggle under socialism.

Ceausescu ruled romania for 24 years as a national communist. He done many bad and good things for its people. In my parents and grandparents perspective it was good until the 1980s with the introduction of ration cards. Explanation: he was the first and only leader to pay all debts and because of that,romania became poorer and poorer until people started starving out.food was rarer on the shelves and they had to wait hours in line. Then came the revolution,people were killed by their army until they joined the people.the ceausescu’s fled by helicopter and they were caught and executed. After that,corruption and debt tripled with the coming of capitalism. My opinion for him is that he was okay,but not a real marxist leninist,a revisionist. He had good opinions of corneliu zelea codreanu,the founder of the legionary(fascist)movement in romania. He was pretty nationalistic with many deportations of hungarian,german and roma people. Life was pretty strict with the securitate(translation is security, like the kgb a secret police) my grandparents still whisper when they are talking about the government and its problems. As a marxist leninist myself,i think he was too reactionary and paying all debts at once was a huge disaster.What are your opinions about him? Also sorry for my poor english

After many, MANY hardships, uncertainties and oppositions, the working class made enough noise to reduce the 6x1 working scale (Work 6 days, rest on 1. 44hrs weekly), to 5x2 (36hrs weekly)!!!

No more modern slavery and inhumane conditions

What do people in this subreddit think about the great purges carried out by Stalin? Or how Trotsky and Lenin turned on the Makhnovtchina?

I am wondering with anyone who has had experience with the CPB are they actually TERF, two state solution with Palestine and dengist like I have heard? If so does anyone know any UK communist orginisations I could have a look at that aren’t trotskyites.

hi, my coworker is cuban and I recently found out they are anti-communist and want Cuba to be
"liberated" from communism. I don't know much about Cuba but I know that they are heavily sanctioned and oppressed by the US and it's been that way for decades.

Why would they feel this way and what should I say to them?

Also does anyone have sources about the history of Cuba, the revolution, modern day Cuba, etc? I would love to learn more.

I have just read Marx’s Communist Manifesto or Manifesto of the Communist Party, however the name is said, and my electronic copy had a study guide attached at the end, as it was from the Marxist Internet Archive.

In one of the discussion questions, it is asked:
“Stalin claimed that the 10-point program had been achieved in the Soviet Union by the mid-1930s. Do you think this claim is valid?”

Marx calls them ‘measures’ or ‘means’ (depending on grammatical interpretation.) I would hesitate to call the list a form of program. To me, it is a list of potential avenues to deconstruct power structures, whereas the ‘program’ framing seems to imply its use as a checklist where each item constitutes a goal to be achieved.

Am I missing some context or something here?

P.S: I did read the prefaces and the note to not place much importance on the proposed measures. Perhaps the study guide did not get the memo there either.

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Filipino (Tagalog):

Sinasalamin ni Tano ang karanasan ng milyon-milyong magbubukid na siyang binubusabos ng mala-kolonyal at mala-pyudal na lipunan. Malalim na nanunuot ang pyudalismo sa pamamagitan ng mga neoliberal, huwad at anti-pesanteng patakaran na siyang nagbigay-daan sa pag-igting ng kawalan ng lupa at pagbunga ng tumitinding krisis sa agrikultura at pagkain na pumapabor sa interes ng dayuhang imperyalista at naghaharing-uri.

Marami pa ang katulad ni Tano sa kanayunan na walang pakundangang binibiktima ng iba’t ibang uri ng pyudal na pananamantala tulad ng mataas na usura, pagkabaon sa utang, at pagkawala ng lupang sinasakahan. Sa gipit na kalagayang ito, walang ibang kasasapitan ang uring pesante kundi ang tahakin ang landas ng pakikibaka, maging ang pinakamataas na antas nito upang ipaglaban ang tunay na reporma sa lupa.

Hinahandog ng Artista ng Rebolusyong Pangkultura (ARPAK) ang isang rendisyon ng awiting “Tano” para sa mga magbubukid at bilang pagpupugay sa lahat ng magigiting na martir ng sambayanang Pilipino na inalay ang kanilang buhay para sa pagsusulong ng pambansang demokrasya. [ARPAK, Bandlab]

English:

Tano embodies the experience of millions of peasants oppressed by a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. Feudalism remains deeply entrenched through neoliberal, deceptive, and anti-peasant policies that have exacerbated landlessness and fueled an intensifying agricultural and food crisis—one that serves the interests of foreign imperialists and the ruling class.

There are many others like Tano in the countryside who are ruthlessly victimized by various forms of feudal exploitation, such as exorbitant usury, crippling debt, and the loss of the land they till. Faced with this dire situation, the peasantry has no other recourse but to tread the path of struggle—even up to its highest form—to fight for genuine agrarian reform.

The Artista ng Rebolusyong Pangkultura (ARPAK) presents this rendition of the song "Tano" for the peasantry and as a tribute to all the courageous martyrs of the Filipino people who sacrificed their lives to advance the cause of national democracy. [ARPAK, Bandlab]

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Tagalog Lyrics:

May isang magsasakang Tano ang pangalan
Lupa n‘yang sinasaka’y tanging kayamanan
Minsa’y nagkasakit kaisa-isang anak

Naubos ang konting pera’y di pa rin lumalakas.
Sa asendero’y nangutang isandaang piso lang
Ngunit ito’y madodoble sa anihan babayaran
At kapag pumalya, madodoble na naman
Madodoble nang madodoble hangga’t di mabayaran.

Tano, Tano
Sa gipit mong kalagayan
Tano, Tano
Anong kasasapitan?

Lumipas ang mga anihang
Sinalanta ng bagyong nagsidaan
Ang pobreng si Tano, nabaon sa utang
Hanggang ang lupa n‘ya ang naging kabayaran
May utang pa si Tano nakikisaka na lang.

Ilan ang tulad ni Tanong pinahihirapan
Sila’y marami pa ngayon doon sa kanayunan
Ngunit itong si Tano ay biglang naglaho
Nang siya’y makita doon sa kabundukan.

Ngunit itong si Tano ay biglang naglaho
Nang siya’y makita doon sa kabundukan
Kasama ng sandatahan
Siya’y naging mandirigma ng Hukbong Bayan.

Ngayon ay lumalaban
Si Tano sa gahaman
Katulad ni Tano
Tayo na't lumaban
Tayo na't lumaban
Tayo na't lumaban!!!

English Lyrics:

There was a farmer named Tano
The land he tilled was his only wealth
Once, his only child fell ill

His meager savings were exhausted, yet the child did not recover.
He borrowed a mere one hundred pesos from the landlord
But the amount would double by harvest time
And if he failed to pay, it would double again
Doubling and doubling until the debt was settled.

Tano, Tano
In your dire straits
Tano, Tano
What will become of you?

Harvest seasons passed
Ravaged by typhoons that swept through
Poor Tano sank deep into debt
Until his land became the payment
Even with the debt settled, he was reduced to being a tenant farmer.

How many are there like Tano, suffering hardship?
There are still so many of them in the countryside
But Tano suddenly vanished
Only to be seen up in the mountains.

But Tano suddenly vanished
Only to be seen up in the mountains
Among the armed ranks
He had become a warrior of the People's Army.

Now Tano fights
Against the greedy
Like Tano
Let us rise and fight
Let us rise and fight
Let us rise and fight!!!