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Marxists don't deny the role of ideas in history. Great ideas have armed movements that have brushed away old systems like they were nothing. Great ideas have enormous power and there is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come!

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It's obvious that the spectre of Communism is once again haunting the ruling class. But the more they attack liberals and mild progressives with this label, the more people are going to think "hey if that's what communism is, then maybe I'm a communist"

I'm seeing a lot of doom and gloom about the perspectives of a revolution on this sub, but the anti-establishment mood Trump based himself on has not disappeared, in fact it's only gotten more intense. Now that he has thoroughly discredited himself in the eyes of a huge portion of his base, it's only a matter of time before the masses take a huge swing to the left in hopes of a solution to their daily suffocation under this dying system.

A revolutionary mass movement is happening right now in Pakistan controlled Kashmir.

The Awami Action Committee must seize power and spread the revolution as soon as possible.

All power to the AAC! ✊

"For our demands most moderate are, We only want the earth." - James Connolly, 1907

James Connolly is often portrayed as simply an Irish nationalist. This couldn't be further from the truth. The leader of the Easter rising, he was a revolutionary Marxist. His study of Marx and Engels guided his fight for an Irish socialist republic, independently bringing him to similar conclusions as Lenin and the Bolsheviks. From the question of national liberation, to international socialism, and the struggle for working class unity, Connolly's legacy offers invaluable lessons for revolutionaries today.

Six prime ministers in ten years. Labour just lost fifteen hundred council seats. Has Britain become ungovernable?

In this week's Against the Stream, Hamid Alizadeh sits down with Adam Booth, editor of The Communist, the paper of the Revolutionary Communist Party in Britain, to give a Marxist answer to that question. And the answer is not what most commentators want to hear.

The episode traces the deep roots of the British crisis: from the deindustrialisation that began over a century ago, to the Thatcherite turn to financialisation and the City of London, to the mountain of debt that now costs Britain 110 billion pounds a year in interest payments alone. That is three point six percent of everything the British working class produces every year, going straight into the pockets of the banks.

The episode explains why the revolving door of prime ministers is not a problem of individual incompetence but a symptom of the terminal decline of British capitalism. Trotsky predicted this degeneration a hundred years ago, and the process he described has only accelerated. Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Keir Starmer are not anomalies. They are the natural political products of a speculative, financialised economy with no industrial base left to speak of.

The episode also takes on the bond markets, the so-called vigilantes who now openly dictate who should lead the Labour Party. It explains concretely what a bond is, why the markets reacted the way they did to Liz Truss, and why no government, however well-intentioned, can simply ignore these mechanisms under capitalism.

And crucially, it goes through the left alternatives on offer, including Modern Monetary Theory, borrowing to invest, taxing the rich, and defaulting on the debt, and explains clearly why none of these, on their own, offer a way out. Not because they are too radical, but because they do not go far enough. The only real solution is democratic control over the commanding heights of the economy.

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