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The National Question
We are living through a very dangerous period. The Bush Administration and most Republicans in Congress are using the events of September 11th to push their reactionary agenda: imperialist aggression abroad, racism and austerity at home. We are in the middle of a deepening economic crisis made worse by the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, the great corporate scandals of 2002, and the right-wing policies of the Bush Administration.
2002 ELECTIONS: No Mandate For The Ultra Right
At the beginning of the 2002 election cycle, we set three inter-related goals for ourselves: 1) to play a part toward defeat of the ultra-right; 2) to build political independence; and 3) to build the Communist Party at the grass roots.
Advancing the Struggle for Peace and Progress
After months of intense activity, a broad peoples movement came up just a little short at the ballot box on November 5. What would have been a breathtaking victory, especially given the unfavorable political atmosphere and circumstances, turned into a victory for the Bush administration and the Republican Party.
Excerpts from the Classics: African American Equality and Racism
This subpart of National Oppression presents just a couple quotations from Lenin applying his general theory to the African American people, showing he followed the question and considered it important, his attitude toward the oppression and its solution.
Excerpts from the Classics: Class and Social Forces for Progress
This section and its subsections deal with the objective position in society and therefore the potential role of, various class and social forces in the struggle for progress and socialism.
Excerpts from the Classics: Democracy, Fascism and the State
This section begins with Engels and Lenin discussing the role of the state and democracy, as a form of the state and its class characteristics. Lenin then discusses the importance of democracy and the fight for it under capitalism.
Excerpts from the Classics: Peace, War and Internationalism
Given the nature of weaponry today, the struggle for peace is one of the most important, one of the struggles through which tactics brings to life a strategic policy.
Excerpts from the Classics: Theory of the Struggle for Progress and Socialism
The quotations in this section deal with the subjective side, human activity, the theory of socialist revolution, what policies, activities, issues of struggle, forms of struggle and organizations are required to win progress and socialism. Such policies are treated as needing to be and 'scientifically based and artfully applied.'
Excerpts from the Classics: Dialectical Materialism
This section is organized in a sequence similar to a textbook on dialectical materialism. After discussing the nature and role of philosophy, the quotations focus on materialism and the basic conflict with philosophical idealism, then on the nature of dialectics, the three laws of dialectics and some categories (less important laws), and finally the theory of knowledge, the nature of knowledge and how to gain knowledge.
Excerpts from the Classics: Average Profit
Average Profit "The profit occurring in accordance with this general rate of profit to any capital of a given magnitude, whatever its organic composition, is called the average profit." Marx, Capital, pub.1894, IP, Vol.3, p.158 Law of average profit. "Under capitalist production the general law acts as the prevailing tendency only in a very complicated and approximate manner, as a never ascertainable average of ceaseless fluctuations." Marx, Capital, pub.1894,...