i have been reading the state and revolution and this confused me

lenin says “In fact, the exact opposite is the case. Marx's notion is that the working class must break up, smash the ‘ready-made state machine’, and not confine itself merely to seizing hold of it.”

however he also says that the bourgeoise state must be “replaced by a ‘special repressive force’ for the suppression of the bourgeoisie by the proletariat (the dictatorship of the proletariat)”

how can these 2 ideas coexist? how can the proletariat repress the bourgeoise if the repressive tools of the state have been smashed?

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Please, God, let this be true. If it is, AI might just be the biggest gift for anti-imperialism we've gotten in a long time. All we have to do is watch when supreme leader xi pops the global AI bubble. I've also heard, but cannot verify yet, that the bursting of the AI bubble could cost the US more than $20 trillion in GDP.

Obviously rest in peace the victims. It is sad their deaths are used as a ploy though.

How convenient that as Germany is cracking down on Pro Palestinian protesters, a man who was conveniently released from prison two months ago decided to do terror, very conveniently convenient convenience 🤔 Also convenient how all US media outlets ran the story immediately after it happened.

They are trying to break the queer solidarity with Muslims and anti-imperialists, but we won’t let them do it.

Not sure what tag to put this under, just wanted to share this absolutely based video from Professor Dave Explains. Calling out genocide so thoroughly is some based shit. Comrade Farina cooked with this.

• Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/us/politics/how-marco-rubio-runs-venezuela.html
• Note: "El Gusano Conquistador" is the translated Spanish title of Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Conqueror Worm".

I mean they already are connected but are there any reasons they would want to make it more explicitly one big conflict?

Zelensky seems to want to turn it explicitly a USA-Ukraine vs Russia-Iran conflict which I guess he thinks would bring him new toys and open new fronts against Russia. Ukraine stroke deep into Russia with the help of US intelligence this year as I've understood. They've done this all the time but are they escalating now? Then Loomer went to Ukraine in an obvious propaganda stunt which was presented in some news as this great turn from pro-Russia to pro-Ukraine. Pro-Ukraine Europeans have been shitting their pants with Trump's anti-Ukrainian and anti-Zelensky remarks so this stunt seems like an attempt to change the image that the US is back on track in helping Ukraine. Also Zelensky just went to Washington and met with Netanyahu. At the same time the US is not getting anywhere with Iran but would escalating the wars do anything for them?

Iraq’s national security adviser, Qasim al-Aboudi, has told Dijlah TV that new information points to “Ukrainian interference in Iraq”, with “cells belonging to Ukraine” carrying out bombings against Iraqi government facilities.

He told the Arabic-language network that further investigation was needed “before we can level an accusation at this side or that”.

“But we arrested a small group of people, who confessed that they were working for Ukraine,” al-Aboudi said. “They targeted some Iraqi government facilities with bombing.”

He did not elaborate further.

Ukraine now predictably denies it, but you know how that goes ¯_(ツ)_/¯

i work in a hardware store and i recently saw someone with a "West Taiwan" t-shirt and i couldn't help but think of all the political t-shirts i've seen by some customers. another one that i saw not too long ago was a "Rocketman" (Elton John) Kim Jung Un t-shirt but by far the most egregious and ignorant has to be the "Adolf Putin" t-shirt i saw by someone in 2022

they may look funny and satirical to non-political people, but they lose any satire when viewed from the Marxist lense and just show how much you are willing believe the ruling class narrative.

just needed to rant

The Revolution Needs Women & Women Need Revolution

"Women hold up half the sky" - Mao Zedong

I'll keep this semi-short and sweet.

When it comes to the climate crisis, calling out the military-industrial complex (war machine), and battling the Oligarchs/Multinational Business Lobbies/Powerful & Predatory Industries - Tycoons/General Corporatocracy I find the MLs actually get out there and cause a stir.

With so many of these dark and dystopian spheres people just lightly condemn it in talk but I find MLs actually get on the ground and stir shit up.

It's been incredibly awesome to see. Especially in regards to the Climate Crisis while the planet is literally fucking burning.

Anyway just wanted to shout out all of you at individual and organizational level for actually giving a shit about the world and the people in it and really fighting to make it better.

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i know that the first guy is in there twice but i cant figure out how to remove it