Guns In The Soviet Union

Gun rights in socialist countries is often debated by conservatives saying that they didn’t exist. This is a false accusation that communists do not support gun rights. To quote Marx himself, “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary,” quoted from […]

George H.W. Bush: War Criminal

Nobody should mourn George H.W. Bush’s death. This man was responsible for many deaths through his imperialist policies. Bush Sr, just like his son, lied about the Gulf War to justify aerial bombardment. He described Iraq as invading Kuwait with “no provocation or warning,” but the ambassador to Iraq told Hussein a week before the […]

Gulags In The Soviet Union

The penal system in the USSR gave a lot of penologically progressive approaches to the rehabilitative system. Educational and manual instruction courses were available in some gulags, giving inmates qualifications for when they leave. Inmates were not required to wear gulags and well-behaved prisoners would get two weeks of holiday a year. An interesting thing […]

Paul Robeson: Forgotten By History

Paul Robeson was a very interesting figure that I have been interested in recently. In Robeson’s life, he achieved many things in many fields. He was a singer, actor lawyer and civil rights activist. Robeson sang for Loyalist soldiers in Spain, spoke out against racism and took part in anti-Nazi demonstrations regularly. In his early […]

Why Karl Marx is Significant Today; a Response to Paul Kengor

In a recent Prager U video, you hear it said that Karl Marx was wrong and is not to be taken seriously. In this essay, I will present the underlying case as to why Marx is significant. In Marx’s time, he saw the real horrors that capitalism brought first-hand. He came from a reasonably well-off […]

On Property

Every Communist says they strive to abolish private property. What does this mean? Well, it surely does not mean we want to take away something as essential as your toothbrush or any other standard possession. What we mean by privet property is capitalist rule over means of production, enforced by law. Means of production is […]

U.S. Anti-Communist Legislation

Anti-communist legislation had always been passed in the US. With McCarthyism and the Red Scare, the US government actively tried to seek out communists and arrest them. The Communist Control Act 1954 was a law that banned the communist party, with the punishment being either a $10,000 fine, 5 years of imprisonment or both. The […]

The Situation of the German communist parties

In the FRG there are four parties who are interested in this question. There is the DKP (German Communist Party), the KPD (Communist Party of Germany), the MLPD (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany) and the KO (Communist Organization). We turn first to the MLPD. The MLPD is a Maoist party that has had to put up […]

A Marxist Analysis of Imperialism and it’s Place in Geo-politics:

A Marxist Analysis of Imperialism and it’s Place in Geo-politics: Imperialism is a concept many of us are aware of however not many understand the current form of imperialism and it’s influence in modern Geo-politics. Imperialism in it’s original form was a practice developed with the rise of slave societies and it paved the way […]

Debunking Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth, Chapter 2

This is the second essay in a series in which I debunk Ludwig Von Mises’s book Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth. Von Mises starts with talking exchange value in a market economy; I will tackle his points one by one. “In an exchange economy the objective exchange value of commodities enters as the unit of […]

New housing program in Nicaragua for workers

The Sandinista government is making great strides in improving the lives of the workers of Nicaragua by providing affordable yet good quality houses for the workers. President Daniel Ortega told us that 900,000 units will be made available for those earning less than £300 a month, whilst the monthly payment for these houses will be […]

Questions of the political economy of the DDR in 1954

To take a close look at the political economy of the GDR, you first have to know a few things. What you need to know is that the GDR only became socialist in 1960. Before that, they were in the transition period from capitalism to socialism. I will talk about this period because this period […]

Commodity production and the law of value under Socialism

Commodity production and the law of value in socialism I will divide this essay into three parts: general definition of commodity production in socialism and value law in socialism; revisionism and the commodity economy in socialism; Criticism of opportunists’ views on commodity production in socialism. I will also cite a series of quotes so that […]

Achievements of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1951

The achievements of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1951 Some progress has been made in the field of politics this year. On the one hand, there was the founding of the Vietnam Workers’ Party and the founding of the Action Committee for Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. With this unit, the tactics of “divide and […]

Famine for three million people expected in Afghanistan

In a tragic turn of events it has been revealed by the UN that without immediate aid up to three million of the poorest workers in Afghanistan will face starvation. With one of the highest hunger rates in the world, a UN official revealed that at least eight million people are seriously malnourished, while another […]

National development plan announced for Venezuela

President Maduro has recently announced the plan of national development, stressing the purpose of the plan is to achieve recovery, growth and prosperity for all Venezuelans. The plan is based around utilising the potential of Venezuela by putting emphasis on Agriculture, industrial and pharmaceutical sectors of the economy, fundamental for the well being of the […]

Lenin’s “Testament”

Among the circles of the new left is often discussed a letter from Lenin, which one wants to identify as Lenin’s last will or Lenin’s will. Whoever wants to identify him like that is pretty easy to answer: Trotskyists and other anti-Leninist forces who call themselves “leftists”. Allegedly, the content of this letter is that […]

Drug Use In Socialist Countries

Drug use in socialist countries had an interesting history, (yes, I know this is a weird topic but people wanted it). In this essay, I will focus on the USSR and China. In a UN report, it said, “Drug addiction is not a serious social and health problem in the USSR. This is due to […]

The Nessessity of the Vangaurd Party

One of the developments Lenin made to Marxism is that of the idea of the vanguard party. The vanguard party is necessarily a political party that represents the working class and its ideals. Lenin said that this party would be a means of establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat. Included in the party would be […]