Wanted to start a thread that will help new members learn what a particular term that Marx, Lenin, etc... uses is defined as. Example... What is a reactionary? So, if you have a question on terminology, post here. -Joe
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Leftist Terminology help
Wanted to start a thread that will help new members learn what a particular term that Marx, Lenin, etc... uses is defined as. Example... What is a reactionary? So, if you have a question on terminology, post here. -Joe
"Democracy is the road to socialism." -Karl Marx
"The goal of socialism is communism." -Vladimir Lenin
"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?" -Fidel Castro
"Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal." -Friedrich Engels
"War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun." -Mao Zedong
"I believe in one thing only, the power of human will." -Josef Stalin
"Better to die standing, than to live on your knees." -Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
who/what is a reactionary?
Last edited by Digitalism; 13th May 2008 at 18:43.
Someone is a reactionary if they oppose progress as conceived of in a grand historic sense.
Something is reactionary if it hinders that progress.
"The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
Workers of the World Unite!" -Karl Marx
"The dictatorship of the proletariat, i.e., the organization of the vanguard of the oppressed as the ruling class for the purpose of suppressing the oppressors, cannot result merely in an expansion of democracy. Simultaneously with an immense expansion of democracy, which for the first time becomes democracy for the poor, democracy for the people, and not democracy for the money-bags, the dictatorship of the proletariat imposes a series of restrictions on the freedom of the oppressors, the exploiters, the capitalists. " -Vladimir Lenin
"The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted, most selfless and most thoroughly revolutionary. The entire history of revolution proves that without the leadership of the working class revolution fails and that with the leadership of the working class revolution triumphs." -Mao Zedong
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I deleted my comment because my mood was too negative when I typed it.
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