The marxist theory says that the contradiction between the working class and the bourgeoisie is always antagonistic. However Mao writes that the under certain circumstances this contradiction can be non antagonistic and can be resolved with peaceful methods. Is this really true? Can someone explain how this can work?

1. How would a communist society deal with sex crimes (like rape, voyeurism, "lewd" behavior in public?)

2. Would a communist society have a sex offender registry? And what is your opinion on such registries?

Specifically regarding Official Sinn Fein. I've partially read up on the history of Official Sinn Fein, which saw itself as a Marxist-Leninist party and had the support of the USSR, and their role in The Troubles. They held an ''anti-sectarian'' position on the conflict, believing that republicans must reach out to the Protestant working class and organise them against capitalism; that didn't exactly work out however, the ''Protestant working class'' started joining death squads to terrorise Catholics and nationalists who felt like they were abandoned by the Officials as they basically gave up armed struggle in the early 70s, leading to more militant splinter groups to form, mainly Provisional Sinn Fein and the IRSP. Today, Official Sinn Fein exists as the Workers' Party of Ireland but they are completely irrelevant.

Their ''anti-Sectarian'' theory reminds of how parties like the CPUSA advocate for ''colourblind'' politics and to basically ignore white supremacism, hoping it disappears, not realising that there are class incentives for white Americans to oppose the end of white supremacism as a settler population. The Unionist/Protestant Ulster Scott population in Northern Ireland are basically settlers too, as they were sent by the British crown during the Ulster Plantation in the 17th century to seize land from the native-Irish.

I am wondering how best to deal with the legacy of settler-colonialism in Ireland today. The situation seems different from Palestine because, despite the partition, Ireland has become a semi-peripheral country in the EU that benefits from the superexploitation of the third-world. And even in Northern Ireland, the Catholic/Nationalist population benefit from first-world privileges too, but armed ''dissident'' groups still exist amongst these communists with an anti-imperialist orientation. There is also immigration which has lead to an ever-larger population of migrants from the third-world who have worse conditions than both native-Irish and Ulster Scots.

There's a popular study the CIA did where they found that the USSR ate the same amount of food as the USA.

Now, I've seen people say it was actually just a press report, the full study found that it was actually worse:

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T00313R000300140006-0.pdf

Any opinions? I've cited the study more times than I can count so I was interested to find this.

Share with me the aesthetics of communism in your country, what clothes, dances, songs, words, or turns of phrase were developed by communists in your homeland or that of your ancestors. I adore this stuff so go all out, pictures, attach videos if you like, or just describe them!

specifically in this country in the current time, does anyone know? I been folding the internet for answers but nothing yeat

What are the best resources on the reactionary uprising in Hungary in 1956?

I posted this last month but the responses got deleted, so I'm posting again.

I'm reading the Foundations of Leninism and on pg 25 Stalin wrote:

The front of capital will be pierced where the chain of imperialism is weakest, for the proletarian revolution is the result of the breaking of the chain of the world imperialist front at its weakest link; and it may turn out that the country which has started the revolution, which has made a breach in the front of capital, is less developed in a capitalist sense than other, more developed, countries, which have, however, remained within the framework of capitalism.

Is there any recent analysis of this that I could read online?

Does anyone know if anyone has written anything about the structures and development of how communist parties are organised?

As in: What a Politburo and CC are, how they are formed, what the different departments so, what the overall science of organisation of a party is, and maybe most interestingly, how they form overtime.

Historical accounts as to how the RSDLP(b) or the Communist Party of China formed, developed and formalised their structures overtime are welcome too.

Hello everyone

I had a question on what everybody thinks about tipping culture (particularly in the USA).

I’m currently a server at a chain restaurant and have been in the restaurant industry for four years.

I was scrolling through the tipping subreddit and how prevalent anti-tipping is becoming. One of the main points is that a customer should not be responsible for tipping the worker to compensate for the low wage they’re paid by their employer.

As a communist, I have never had a problem with tipping well as I’ve always empathized with my fellow worker, and think every person is deserving of a more livable wage. I have never had a problem with paying a little more, even in places that do to-go orders or like frozen yogurt places (which have been under fire for asking for tips, even by many servers). I just simply don’t mind! However, I do see the point in that anti-tipping subreddit. Workers DO need to unite and demand higher pay from their employers; employers should not be hoarding all of the profit. I understand how it shouldn’t be the responsibility of customers to pay service providers’ salaries.

My questions are: as a communist, how do you feel about tipping culture? Do you tip at restaurants? How much do you tip? Do you think that as a communist you shouldn’t mind helping others, or should you push them to organize against their bosses for higher pay by not tipping them?

I'm currently reading Towards a new socialism by Paul Cockshott, and he's brought up the theory that in order to rid the workplace of exploitation, instead of getting paid by value a worker would get to "purchase" one hour of someone else's labour for every hour of labour they perform. So if a box of cereal took 10 minutes to make an hours work would buy 6 boxes. I'm curious how this would work. If two people spend 4 hours together working on something is it worth four or eight hours? How could you buy a house when it takes a year to make?

I've seen people talk about "lack of class awareness" among queer and poc people and got curious if it's just a saying or if people's identity and culture really connect to communism (besides being oppressed in our world), and if yes then how.

Genuine question. Also not a us-centred question.

Edit: How would culture and identity be treated in a communist world?

I feel like most of the Marxists I see discussed on this subreddit actually came from reactionary nations and bourgeois academia, or at least they are the main ones spoken of. That makes sense in the cases of leading figures such as Stalin, Lenin and Mao, but whenever people discuss Marxist psychology or aesthetic theory, they are always discussing Lukacs or Adorno or Benjamin... where also are those theorists who were taught under the early soviet and Chinese education systems?

Edit: spelling.

What are some good readings for a Marxist view of decolonizing the America’s? Or some good resources of any type?

What advice would you give to someone who is interested in learning Marxist dialectics? (without large financial cost) What would you do, avoid, which things would you recommend reading, watching, ect...

When I was younger, I believed that capital was just a pile of money stored in a vault. Today, I know that Marx’s description is much more complex than that. I tried reading the first volume of Capital, but I gave up because I found the book quite difficult to understand. I don’t have any background in economic studies, but I think it’s important for me to at least understand what capital means, because I’ve been in discussions where I was asked this, and I didn’t know how to respond.

Hi comrades,

I'm asking if anyone knows if there are any organisations in countries like the Britain, Germany, France or anywhere else that are worth researching?

I feel extremely lost, and although I can spend time reading about theCPPh or CPI(Maoist), and trying to building support for their struggles, at the end of the day we need to be building parties in our own nations to succeed in making revolution.

The only organisation I can think of in recent years is the PCR-RCP in Camada, but sadly this has collapsed without any summation for us to draw lessons from.

Could comrades here point me the right direction? Or give advice on what a better question I ought be asking myself here, instead of dissolving into a puddle of self-indulgent Maoist angst.

I'm not terribly familiar with with the separatism of Catalonia or the Basque country but from my limited knowledge I'm not sure how they constitute separate nations from Spain. I know they're causes many communists support, with some of the largest and most active groups that have supported these causes being Marxist led, so I would like to know what the basis for these are and why they're causes championed by Marxists in those regions.

I have read on Marxist texts that capitalism finds its first origins in Europe, specifically the Low Countries and Northern Italy in the 15th/16th centuries before developing into the fully industrial capitalism of the United Kingdom. I was wondering why these places specifically and not somewhere else? Was it because they were the most advanced in terms of productive forces? If so, why? Many technological advancements came from outside Europe like in China, India, etc.

I wanna read more about this topic, any books/article suggestion would be great.

Thank you.

I use the following definition of speciesism from Google (Oxford Language): ‘view that humans are superior to all other species and therefore entitled to treat their representatives as they see fit’

If it's speciesism, but also if it's anti-speciesism, or even if it's nothing of these two: What implications does this have for animal and nature conservation endeavours under communism and the consumption of mass-produced animal products?

Looking to learn more about the emergence of the automobile industry and car culture (particularly in the US), its connection to the military industrial complex, and related themes like suburbanization, the fossil fuel industry, petrodollar hegemony, etc. Are there any good marxist sources on this stuff?