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This article is part of the People’s World 100th Anniversary Series.

Lucy Parsons—a radical leader in her own right—is often overshadowed in the annals of labor history by her husband, Albert Parsons, one of the May Day martyrs murdered by the state in 1887 after the demonstrations at Haymarket Square the year prior.

When Parsons died in 1942—on International Women’s Day—she was mourned by her comrades in the Communist Party USA, which she had joined three years prior. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a prominent leader in the CPUSA, was one of Parsons’ close friends. She wrote the article remembrance below, which appeared in the Daily Worker on March 11, 1942.

Parsons and Flynn had been associates and sisters in the struggle for decades by that point. The two had been involved in 1912 in founding the Syndicalist League and later worked side-by-side in the International Labor Defense, a mass organization created by the CPUSA to defend native and foreign-born workers from persecution.

Parsons was actively involved in the Sacco & Vanzetti Defense Campaign, the Angelo Herndon Defense Campaign, and the fight to save the Scottsboro Nine.

Having earlier been an anarchist like her husband Albert, she gravitated toward the CPUSA in the 1920s and ’30s. She once wrote: “Anarchism has not produced any organized ability in the present generation, only a few little loose struggling groups, scattered over this vast country…. I went to work for the International Labor Defense because I wanted to do a little something to help defend the victims of capitalism who got into trouble, and not always be talking, talking, talking.”

To learn more about the life of Lucy Parsons, read “Lucy Parsons, American revolutionary,” by Norman Markowitz, available on CPUSA.org.

The author of this article wrote a book against people owning homes.

Literally owning homes.

Anyway, "YourCommieDad" takes the guy down a peg.

P. S.: To be clear, this video is a rebuttal to an article from a website called Real Clear Markets.

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It's like China is just that one country (aside from the Khmer Rouge) that every ML (aside from Dengists like us) agrees to hate on.

Fellow Traveler and leftypol uploaded videos criticizing them, the Shining Path hung up literal dogs to protest them, Maoists go all insane saying that it's some red fash social-imperialist nation because (insert nato propaganda here). And Hoxhaists claim that China was never socialist and that the only socialist nation ever was USSR before Khrushchev and almighty holy Albania.

What is it that makes China so controversial even among MLs? I get that it's not perfect and every AES state has their Ls, but jesus.

are you ready to program for the revolution, camarada?

We already know that socialism is going strong in China, Korea, and Cuba. But we (or at least I) don't hear that much about Vietnam and Laos.

How is it going over there? What is their trajectory towards becoming developed? How much progress have they made so far? Is the socialist ideology going strong there? Where can I keep up to date on these countries?

Title says it all. I'm in a country that has public health care, and in many aspects it is very good. Only downside is wait time. There's also less and less funding every year, less and less quality, the whole process to destroy and later privatize what is a natural monopoly (such as water, electricity, etc) and a basic necessity for human life and dignity, and so on.

With that said, is it wrong for me to benefit from what is essentially a better service (because of factors mentioned above, not because private = "better") because it is a capitalist enterprise? Same debate could arise from private energy companies, private transport providers, etc.

Wikipedia says they are both libertarian and communist so obviously theres a lot of disinformation about them.

On another level, the South of the planet and the global East can no longer stand the racist and neo-colonial supremacism of this “global North-West,” of which the European Union is the European pillar, and is confronting the EU-NATO bloc which, allied with open [neofascists] swarming in Kiev and the Baltic states, is the main enemy of all peoples, including the peoples of Europe and North America.

This is not to idealize Vladimir Putin’s counter-revolutionary régime, nor to deny the class contradictions that exist in People’s China, but simply to remember the “revolutionary defeatism” advocated by Lenin in 1914 and summed up by his German comrade Karl Liebknecht in the brilliant phrase: “The main enemy is in your own country.”

For it is our conviction that capitalism has become so reactionary that, in our time, what we call “exterminism” has become the supreme stage of capitalism-imperialism-hegemonism, with its globalized procession of destruction of social gains, political reaction and fascistization, obscurantism and the return of the worst religious fundamentalisms, as well as the destruction of national sovereignties.

But this is only one side of the question, and dialectically we must see that this situation enables and also demands more than ever the unity of proletarians of all countries; it demands the unity of the fight for democracy, for the sovereignty of peoples, for their free cooperation freed from blind and destructive competition.

We must fight for the proletariat, worldwide and country by country, to become the heart and ardent focus of a revolution uniting all those who want humanity to go on and life to triumph over death and the absurdity brought about by capitalist exploitation and [neo]imperial oppression.

The words of Vladimir Ilyich, spoken by him 100 years ago, are invariably relevant in the era of [neo]imperialism, that is, today: “Capitalism is always darkness. Capitalism is always death. Capitalism is always war”.

Nothing has changed in 100 years. And we, socialists and communists of Ukraine and in the world, still have no other way but this: only to fight the reaction policy, only to strive for a world red dawn, only to follow Lenin’s precepts!

We wish you every success in the difficult field of defending communist principles in the very center of world [neo]imperialism!

You and we are looking in the same direction. You and we are breathing the same air, and this air smells like an approaching storm, a thunderstorm that will sweep away the cursed capitalism from the face of the Earth and plant the banner of the great Lenin over the planet!

Via a r/Australia Reddit post. Just thought the photo was cool (as I'm Australian) - and supporting the Communist USSR (pre-Cold War) was not seen as unacceptable then!

ingredient suppliers: pay us more bc inflation

restaurants: ok

property owners: pay us more bc inflation

restaurants: ok

CEO's: pay us more bc inflation

restaurants: ok

workers: pay us more bc inflation

restaurants: are you crazy? we'd have to raise prices! it would ruin us!

Leninism is not just a tool we use to analyze the world we live in and the class forces at play. It is a doctrine of action. This commitment to our immersion in the struggle and taking on the vicious capitalist-imperialist system headfirst is what sets communists apart.

We are not just critics and theorists. We are organizers, fighters and partisans for the global working class.

Once we understand that we are not passive spectators to our own exploitation, we become the pivotal factor in our collective liberation — and we are ready to embrace Leninism.

Frantz Fanon said: “Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence.”

Leninists do not shy away from the fight. We understand that there is no way to reach a better world but through a fight. What Frantz Fanon said is what the people on the front lines against [neo]imperialism intimately understand — in Palestine, in Yemen, in the Philippines and all places where the masses of workers and colonized peoples are waging a people’s war for their liberation.

Lenin’s view of the working class is so important today, with so many in our global class struggling just to make ends meet, especially workers of color, here and in the Global South. And capitalism is threatening the world’s inhabitants with endless war and climate catastrophe.

There’s an old union slogan: “An injury to one is an injury to all.” The global working class has an obligation to the people of Palestine: Build a great wall of solidarity. Make it strong. Make a thick wall and a high wall, too high for [neo]imperialism to knock over. Multiply solidarity with Palestine in the name of the working class.

We must use our power as workers, as the ones who create [almost] all of the wealth in society, to help the Palestinians bring down the Zionist apartheid state — and ultimately bring down the whole [neo]imperialist system behind it.

That’s what an alliance of over 30 Palestinian unions have asked us to do. A significant number of national, regional and local labor organizations have taken a big first step. They have called for a permanent ceasefire. That is not enough, not by a long shot, but it’s something we can build on.

We again need to revive and elevate a fundamental principle of revolutionary Marxism-Leninism — that the working class IS a revolutionary class. It is THE revolutionary class whose historic mission is to bring about the downfall of the capitalist system of exploitation — and by doing so usher in a whole new phase of human development.

Free, free Palestine!

the middle class and petit bourgueoisie in a nutshell...by "quino"

There are some instances where class becomes extremely complicated.

In my view, to a large extent Israel at present is an exception. [That neocolony] is an extreme version of a relatively small and completely artificial settler-colonial state being imposed on the region by [neo]imperialism and displacing and subjugating the Indigenous population.

There’s a working class in [it]. But that class is not only divided, it is hostage to the reality of [neo]colonial occupation. In [that neocolony], the struggle to free Palestine is the key to the class struggle.

Most of the population in [that neocolony] that is not native to Palestine was not forced to migrate there out of economic need but many migrated there to be part of the Zionist project. This suspends its development as a class. The most vital, politically healthy part of the working class there are Palestinian Arab workers who are 20% to 25% of the population and also 25% of the working class.

They are the social and political link between the class struggle and the liberation struggle until something changes in the remaining part of the working class. If we were there, part of our work would be to push workers to save themselves, break with Zionism and help unite the world’s working class. How much time and effort communist and advanced workers should devote to this task would depend on the needs of the Palestinian resistance.

I was banned without notice for calling out that supporting Putin is not something we should be doing, check my post history, you won't easily find people more radicalized than me.

This was my final post:

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To let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because he is an old acquaintance, a fellow townsman, a schoolmate, a close friend, a loved one, an old colleague or old subordinate.

Like we're doing with Putin?

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"Like we're doing with Putin?" in reply to a Mao quote, genzdong's front page at the time was full of threads and posts defending Putin.

Not defending Ukraine is understandable, attacking the USA is understandable but trying to defend and justify Putin is a direct offense against Mao's teachings.

Putin has clearly gone wrong, we mustn't refrain from principled argument because he's an old acquaintance (is he?).

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To be fair, the site crashing due to heavy traffic probably counts as a "good problem" overall.

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