What is Philosophy by Howard Selsam

Philosophy is no mystery - I don't know, maybe it's the Chinese working class or something

माओ त्से तुङ की कविताएँ - Mao Zedong... duh

Great Soviet Stories Part 1 - many great Soviet authors

मुर्दों को क्या लाज-शर्म Gregory Baklanov

The Class Struggle in France 1848-1850 - Karl Marx

उनके शब-ए-जबर का ख़ौफ़ मर्दों में भी है,

मद्धम ही सही हमारे दिल में धड़कन अभी भी है।

दुश्मन-ए-क़ौम को भी क़ुव्वत-ए-ज़ंजीर पर है यक़ीन।

मैदान-ए-क़त्ल-ए-आम में बेपरवा हम भी हैं।

उन्हें ग़ुरूर है अपने इक़्तिदार-ए-नाजाइज़ व नापाक पर,

तारीख़ के उसूल में इस्तिहसाल के बाद इंक़िलाब भी है।

शौक़-ए-तहरीफ़ है तहरीक-ए-ज़ुल्म को,

जलते घरों का मंज़र यादों में मस्तूर भी है,

उसी राख में छिपा एक शरार-ए-तूर भी है।

शमशीर-ए-सितम को है लहू की तलब,

चलो पार्थे, तैश में गर्दन उठाए हम भी हैं।

-पार्थ

Can you guess the answer?

Innumerable cases of massacre, rape, and all other forms of violence are par for the course under this putrid and decaying capitalism.

The oppression of women was the first class oppression of humanity, stretching back much further than just capitalism. Engels states in chapter 2 of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State that “the first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.” Capitalism inherits the patriarchal property relations inherent within the family and intensifies them.

Today, women continue to be oppressed not only within the family through menial housework and economic dependence on the male (a phenomenon that, yes, continues even in the great United States and is even worse in the peripheral countries), but also through the commodification of their bodies and the alienation of wage slavery. Unrealizable beauty standards, the “male gaze”, and outright prostitution are some notable physical manifestations of converting human women into commodities. It is precisely the profit generating marketplace of modern day capitalism and familial domination of man over woman that determine machismo culture that feeds right into the abuse of women.

Treating women as objects to be acquired shapes how men see sexual access. Intimacy becomes something to be won or conquered.

And, we should add, anti-woman sentiment and alcohol are destructive and counter-revolutionary to the proletarian struggle. During the early days of the October Revolution, alcohol disoriented the Red Guards and handicapped their effectiveness at maintaining proletarian power at its most crucial moments. Prejudice towards women actively prevents and discourages their full and absolutely essential participation in the class struggle. The scale of the problem shows what is at stake.

It is a phenomenon that affects all sexes and all classes, but disproportionately affects poor proletarian women. Women from the lowest income brackets receive 12 times as much sexual victimization compared to the highest brackets. There is thus a double oppression in being a worker and a woman.

The relationship between the sexes is completely and utterly broken.

Women are angry. And dammit they should be! It is essential, however, to remember that salvation lies not in the interclass “girlboss” feminism of the CEO (sorry, fans of Taylor Swift!) nor in the “power” of voting, but rather in linking arms with fellow proletarians of all races and genders in the class war. Women must unite in class unions to wage strikes against their bosses for their most essential needs and join and lead within the Communist Party to take power and finally end their oppression themselves. Only the pursuit of communism goes beyond mere punitive measures and fixes the problem at its roots.

So long as there are classes, markets, commodities, and especially the family, women will continue to experience their gross oppression. We want to abolish the family by ending the material dependency of woman upon man and the property relation of parent over child. It means socializing housework and the absence of coercion in relationships that ought to be driven solely by love and not constrained or forced with the influence of money. Ultimately, it will be the “abolition of the monogamous family as the economic unit of society” (Engels).

The false solutions presented by the bourgeoisie are just a series of decapitating blows against the regenerating heads of the capitalist Hydra. By eliminating once and for all social classes and the family unit that have tainted humanity for several millennia, communism will deliver, in one fell swoop, the decapitation of all its heads while the flames of revolution will cauterize the stumps and damn the beast to Hell!

The International Communist Party, Issue No. 71, 16th September , 2026

I am a Telugu myself. You see, I love Telugu a lot. In fact, I have been studying the poetry structure and grammar to write poetry. I read a lot of Telugu literature as well.

But when I see Telugu people, whether offline or online, they seem very conservative. It feels hard to feel belonging among Telugu people because they are always pro-status-quo. Even meme pages have been making fun of CJP or NEET protests, vote chori, etc. Not one meme page showed support to students. Even many of the people around me were supporting police action against the students.

I am more interested in why this is the case. Of course, there are pockets of Telugu leftists, but I have never met them in real life. I could have asked this in Telugu subreddits like Ni_Bondha or something, but they are very regressive.

Why is this the case? I am interested to understand this because I know Andhra was the first linguistic state in India and how we fought for our dignity.

OC: https://www.instagram.com/p/DeUUP-ytsXD/

M23, newbie communist here. Most of the arguments that I keep hearing from BJP supporter uncles in my circle are "Modi brought roads to our village by PMGSY, Congress didn't care about us", "BJP/NDA ruling states have more vertical development in infra whereas Non BJP ruling states like chennai have very poor vertical development", "Without BJP we don't have these many highways which makes our commute this much easier, before 2014 the highway network was very small and poor". These are almost true (to my knowledge, because I was a kid back then and I wouldn't have noticed how my village might've looked) because I witnessed even the left in my circle accepting that our village roads and highway network was shit before 2014 and had 0 signs of improvement. I am able to see a few liberals who have converted to bjp supporters because they say that congress and bjp functions the same but congress is incompetent and even though BJP does spread hatred they also do good stuff like this so it cancels out the bad stuff. Like how to counter this, and where can I learn unbiased truth about Indian history and politics, any materials like books, websites etc. TIA

When security forces from every nook and cranny of the country are deployed in Delhi, it really makes one wonder how these attacks unfold with the supposed presence of the security personnel in the same region where an attack occurs.

If an attack doesn't happen now when such a large number of security forces are in Delhi to curb protests diverting them from sensitive areas, how do they happen when they are on deployment and who's really behind them? Is no action taken in those scenarios on purpose?

The preparedness of the government to intimidate people sure makes it seem like they can prevent any attack from unfolding in the first place.

Hello. I am 19 yrs old, and since last year I've been seriously getting into communism. By seriously, I mean trying to get into the theory and following leftist/communist creators online and trying to think in a dialectical way. In reality, the only works of theory I've been able to get through are Principles Of Communism, SOME of What Is To Be Done? and very recently, Combat Liberalism.But my question is not about that.

For context, I am a bengali, studying in bangalore. Recently, I met a senior in my college, who is also a bengali. Naturally, we started talking and becoming friends. She is a nice person, truly, and in a completely different place, it's nice to have a person who atleast speaks your language. Being bengalis, politics has started to come up in our conversations. I have already made it clear that I consider myself to be a communist. Today, the topic of reservation came up. She is ,in a way,of the opinion that reservations, in some cases, are causing discrimination. Surprisingly, I found myself saying things like, " Caste reservation should be there, but economic conditions should also be checked", etc., etc. While coming back, however, I started to question and criticise myself, I do know that sc, st and obc people are terribly underrepresented in the economic sphere that is considered to be "well off".I do know that in the current form of government, any and every new reform would also become corrupted. This behaviour of mine has been bothering me ever since. For some context, till last year, I was suffering from social anxiety, which was at times, crippling. I still suffer from occasional bouts of anxiety. This year, I decided to combat that, marxist theories and the story of how "Lenin made friends wherever he went" DEFINITELY help me. And, I have made some progress. I do understand that it is important to criticise your self without letting it "get to you". But, it just hasn't left my mind. Especially since Mao calls this the sixth type of liberalism. I do understand the logical aspect of it all, but I just did not find the courage to combat her viewpoints, to such an extent that that need to please her opinions, clouded my own. Open to suggestions.

This tyrannical government and its treacherous leadership might succeed in curbing tomorrow's (10/10/26) protest but it's evident from their actions that they are shook to their core and uneasy in conduct like a thief should be. They've taken the following measures until now:-

1. Placed several leaders of various organisations like the CJP and student unions under house arrest. Along with detaining opposition leaders as well repeatedly.

2. Curbed all trains from reaching NDLS and Hazrat Nizamuddin railway stations to prevent lakhs of people from joining the protest or reaching their homes (which would be the case for most).

3. Kidnapping and violent suppression of any student gathering.

And many more things, please add to the list as the day progresses in the comments.

My intention to make this post is to reiterate and reassure everyone that this protest has succeeded before it even happened. The bravehearts who gathered the courage to travel to Delhi from all corners of the country won the moment they decided to be a part of the protest by stepping out of their comfort zones.

Please remember that the fight is as much about the mindset, narrative and way of thought of the masses as it is to show dissent on the ground. Even if this false government succeeds in curbing the protest, they can't change the disapproval which people have started to develop against them. Communalism, religious bigotry and hate speeches are becoming irrelevant in front of vote theft and the destruction of India's constitutional institutions.

We must keep this momentum going now and not rest till the government falls.

Inquilab Zindabad! Long live the revolution!

What are your opinions on INC being clearly liberal and pro-capitalism? Is it really worth it to be cordial to someone like Elon Musk?

ngl when I saw the hypocrite oligarch Elon Musk calling out oligarchy in India, I somewhat expected a new discussion to unfold around Indian crony capitalists and their corruption using Elon as a catalyst. It's useful no doubt. But it looks like Rahul Gandhi will likely become the next PM after all and it's just problematic that he's talking to a neo nazi who uses his AI to make CSAM.

Democratic Socialism achieved, checkmate purists!