r/Communist

Hello comrades,

I’m working on a long-term political discussion project based in South Africa called Red Vanguard South Africa, and I wanted to share it here to get feedback from other Marxist, communist, and left-wing perspectives.

The aim is not to copy existing movements, but to develop a South African socialist framework grounded in material conditions, anti-imperialism, and working-class power, while drawing from broader Marxist traditions.

The core direction of the project includes:

Economic Structure

Expansion of worker cooperatives across key industries

Public ownership of strategic sectors (mining, energy, transport, land, infrastructure)

Local beneficiation and industrialisation instead of raw material export dependency

Planning-oriented economic development with social priorities

Class & Employment

Strong focus on full employment through state-led infrastructure and industrial projects

Large-scale public works programs and skills development

Apprenticeships, vocational training, and youth employment pipelines

Strengthening working-class organisation and workplace democracy

Social Programs

Universal access to housing, healthcare, and education

Expanded social protection systems (including basic income discussions)

Strong public health infrastructure and preventive care systems

Support systems for elderly, disabled, and marginalised communities

Political Structure

Deepened democratic participation at community and workplace level

Strong anti-corruption systems and transparent procurement

Community oversight of public institutions

Integration of workers into decision-making structures

Environment & Development

Sustainable industrialisation with environmental protection

Clean energy transition and infrastructure renewal

Public sanitation, water security, and ecological restoration

Cooperative-based agriculture and food sovereignty

Internationalism

Anti-imperialist foreign policy outlook

Support for liberation and anti-colonial struggles globally

Strong Pan-African cooperation and regional solidarity

South–South cooperation between developing nations

This is still a developing framework, and I’m specifically looking for serious Marxist critique, theoretical feedback, and practical critique of feasibility rather than surface-level agreement or disagreement.

If you’re interested in engaging with these ideas or contributing to the discussion around socialist strategy in the Global South, you’re welcome to join the subreddit:

r/RedVanguardSA

Solidarity.

Why is the rapist-in-chief citing Communists? He’s been blowing Putin for more than a decade. You’d think he’d lay low.

Such a clear community is important, because the practitioners can quickly see each other and offer experience or support or strategies for relevant solutions in practice.

I have searched but seems no there.

I’ve seen communist creators talk about Neo nazism in Ukraine but I’ve also heard communists critique Putin for being a capitalist

What's the point of using an outdated logo, strongly associated with everything bad the USSR and their satellites did? Not to mention it is widely used in an imperialist war today.

Crazy people

Communism Lives! The transformation of DSA into a revolutionary workers party continues, which is reflected in the increasing radicalism of DSA's elected representatives, even if they are not, at least openly, communist. Will communists in DSA succeed, or will the reformist tendencies take the lead? Is it time for DSA to turn to more explicit communist politics?

"We Communists, it is said, have returned after a long period of dormancy. Everyone is saying it. Mayor Mamdani is a Communist, the DSA is full of Communists; or, if you ask certain Democrats, Republicans themselves are the real Communists!

Modern politics has become a big trial, and everyone stands accused. The charge is Communism. From his venal pulpit, ‘Truth Social,’ a platform full of lies, even the big orange rapist himself proclaims boldly that "the Communists are finally making their move"—that he's "been waiting and preparing for this moment for a long time."

We Communists are a little confused, President Trump. We have not yet made our move. We were going to, but it seems our 'Democratic Socialist' cousins have jumped the gun a bit, and already earned themselves the allegation. But it is a title they do not deserve!"

"Yet now, with the political 'centre' finally forced to the defensive, defending an indefensible status quo, reiterating again and again the brazen lie that they are ultimately a force for good, these slurs are no longer coming from the right alone. They are coming from the Democratic establishment itself, rearming themselves, in good Clintonite tradition, with a rhetoric of triangulation.

It's no surprise at all to us, then, that the first mainstream report on DAC's assuredly terrible tweets, that good liberal democracy could never support, did not come from the right! The call came from inside the house: CNN! This liberal-leaning media titan, in between its habitual bouts of carrying water for genocidaires, has now turned its guns on even Democrats, as the party cannibalises itself ever further in an attempt to reckon with reaping what it's sown."

"We say that the DSA are not in fact Communists, not because they have taken the wrong direction, but because they have not elaborated their struggle enough. All across the organisation, we see the scars of conservative half-measures, of demands that only go part of the way. But it is their definite opposition to the existing order which is denounced as Communist, and which rapidly wins the hearts of the masses."

"Did Hasan Piker not call for a Dictatorship of the Proletariat, to the applause of the students at Yale? Did Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez not nod along to him when he lamented the collapse of the U.S.S.R.? The language of a Communism now holds credence in the Democratic Socialist movement."

"We are quickly reaching a situation where, if a politician is branded as a Communist, the worker only has to say: “All the better for her.”"

"The spectre of Communism, long thought vanquished, finally returns, and it haunts all the Earth—it is time for the Communists to vanquish it for good, and meet this weak epithet with the strength of its real positions. We tell the bourgeoisie: your moment is over, your chances are spent. We are no longer coming for concessions, but everything you own."

I mean do you think he actually thank them

I was want to get busts of communist figures like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Marx, Engels, etc. and display them. Does anyone know/recommend any reliable retailers/sources to find busts of communist figures?

Critics of communism always make a mistake in interpretation when they condemn communism for its intrinsic "violence" or for the "destruction" of prevailing "natural" values. However... Since the formulations of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, movements such as those of Thomas Müntzer were already calling for social justice, the abolition of oppression, and other such terms; even before communism. Engels himself quoted him in his "Peasant Wars in Germany" (1850).

Taking a more aesthetic example, in the film Metropolis (1927), We see slaves revolting against the pharaohs in a sequence about those who "really built the pyramids," along with a critique of the exploitation of workers in the lower city to the detriment of the residents of the upper city.

In conclusion, I believe that Marx's words in "The German Ideology" (1845) are more accurate than ever:

"[...] We call Communism the real movement that overcomes and abolishes the present state of affairs. The conditions of this movement result from the currently existing premises"

Well, what I mean is that we should prove that the other side doesn't understand, or pretends not to understand, purely out of this is a rehash of Cold War propaganda. And it only hinders debate and helps those on the right.

Sony are Communists

Its true

Sony are Communists

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE WORLD

I COME TO YOU WITH AN ANNOUNCEMENT

I have come to notice that Sony Corporation is starting to strangely act like a Karl Marx Era Communist regime.

First the Killing of Bluepoint (killing off the ones that dont work as hard, sounds like a communist government right)

Annoucnes God of Woke game (To spread controversy and devide the community)

Announces Closure of PS3 and Vita Store (Controlling the Markets like Communists)

And the worst of all... THE END OF PRODUCTION FOR ALL PHYSICAL GAMES IN 2028. DOES THIS EVEN NEED EXPLAINED

Anti-consumer rights

Can and HAS CANCELED GAMES AND MOVIES PEOPLE BOUGHT

THEY REMOVED 550 MOVIES FROM LIBRARYS PEOPLE BOUGHT AND DID NOT REFUND FOR NO REASON

THEY CAN BAN YOUR ACCOUNT FOR NO REASON AND DELETE YOUR PURCHASE

THEY HARM THE SECOND-HAND MARKET

WE ARE TURNING TO A COMMUNIST STATE IN VIDEO GAMES!!! DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT SIGN THE PETITION FOR NO COPORATE COMMUNISM AS WELL AS CAPITALISM https://www.reddit.com/r/PhysicalGames/s/CvOQFTogqz

Liberalism champions the slogans of freedom and democracy, but in reality, it protects the oligarchic ownership of the means of production. It allows the wealthy to control both the economy and the state, while falsely claiming that every individual is free. This inherently generates widespread poverty, unemployment, and recurring crises, because the system relies entirely on exploiting workers to generate profit.

Meanwhile, the "castrated Left" has abandoned the fight against this exploitation. Instead of organizing workers against factory and corporate owners, it has shifted its focus toward defending cultural and identity politics. It demands minor reforms within the system rather than changing the system itself, effectively becoming part of the political decor that absorbs public anger and derails the revolution.

If poverty and exploitation are the direct results of a wealthy few controlling all resources, the solution cannot be to reform this control—the solution is to abolish it. Liberalism cannot end it because it thrives on it, and any Left that distances itself from this goal is, frankly speaking, nothing but a tool in the hands of the establishment.

Every time liberalism offers reforms, exploitation returns even stronger. And every time the Left gets distracted by marginal issues, the working class weakens, and capital maintains its grip. Therefore, no real progress can be achieved without a direct confrontation with the ownership of capital. Any Left that rejects this confrontation is inherently a failed and objectively traitorous Left. Returning to the core struggle of class warfare is the only path to a radical transformation of reality.

Thank you.

Do you think that someone who has no previous knowledge of the hammer and sickle would assume that the hammer and sickle is associated with a potentially violent or politically extreme group? I started thinking of this because I just tattooed it onto myself and was thinking of the shape language of the symbol

Hello! It’s my partners birthday soon and I was thinking about getting him some communism/Che/Cuba/Lenin related things as a birthday present. Something special that he would love.
I just don’t really know what’s cool to get as a present. What is communism related stuff that you would love to have? I was thinking about old cuban money, a che flag, a book…? Advice would be super helpful :)
Thank you!!!!!

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And this is an answer from AI:

That is a fascinating conceptual question. The short answer is **no, there is no mainstream AI architecture specifically engineered from the ground up to operate *by* the laws of dialectical and historical materialism.** However, looking at the intersection of Marxist philosophy and computer science reveals deep parallels, structural contradictions, and active theoretical explorations regarding how AI *could* be understood or built through this lens.

## 1. Why Modern AI Isn't Dialectical (The Formal Logic Barrier)

Mainstream AI—from traditional expert systems to modern Large Language Models (LLMs)—is fundamentally built on **formal logic, mathematics, and statistical optimization**.

* **Formal Logic vs. Dialectics:** Computer science relies on the binary, non-contradictory foundations of formal logic (A = A and A \neq \neg A). Dialectical materialism, drawing from Hegel and Marx, posits that reality is driven by *internal contradictions* (the interpenetration of opposites) where a thing is simultaneously itself and its own negation in a constant state of becoming.

* **The Problem of "Static" Data:** Modern AI models learn patterns from frozen historical datasets. They optimize for a static loss function. Dialectical materialism argues that human thought and social structures are in a constant, dynamic flux driven by material conditions, meaning an AI that purely mimics past data cannot truly capture the open-ended, self-transforming nature of history.

## 2. Parallels and Materialist Interpretations of AI

While no AI is explicitly "Marxist," the internal mechanics of certain AI architectures mirror dialectical principles in striking ways:

### Quantitative to Qualitative Transformation

One of the core laws of dialectical materialism is that a continuous accumulation of quantitative changes eventually leads to a sudden, qualitative leap.

* This is precisely what we observe in **Deep Learning and Scale**. Adding billions of parameters and petabytes of text (quantitative increases) to a transformer model doesn't just make it a faster regurgitator; it triggers **emergent abilities** (qualitative leaps) like reasoning, translation, and code generation that were not explicitly programmed.

### Connectionism vs. Idealism

The battle in AI history between *Symbolic AI* (rule-based) and *Connectionism* (neural networks) can be viewed through a materialist lens:

* **Symbolic AI** treated intelligence as an abstract, top-down system of idealized rules (closer to philosophical idealism).

* **Neural Networks** mimic the physical, material structure of the human brain (synapses and weights). They suggest that intelligence and "mind" are emergent properties of highly organized, interconnected **matter in motion**—a deeply materialist premise.

## 3. Historical Materialism: AI as "Fixed Capital"

If we look at AI not through its code, but through **historical materialism**, AI is not an independent "agent" but a highly advanced **force of production**.

In *Capital*, Marx analyzed how machinery under capitalism acts as "fixed capital." Matteo Pasquinelli’s recent scholarship (*The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence*, 2023) applies this directly to AI. From this perspective:

* An AI algorithm is essentially the **crystallization of collective human labor**. LLMs are trained on the accumulated knowledge, writing, and labor of millions of human workers.

* Under current material conditions, AI is used to increase the rate of surplus value, automate tasks, and alienate the worker from their own cognitive labor.

## 4. Could a "Dialectical AI" Exist?

For an AI to truly be designed *using* dialectical materialism, it would likely need to move away from static optimization and embrace a framework where **contradiction is a feature, not a bug**.

Some researchers look toward **Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)** as a primitive example of this: two neural networks (a Generator and a Discriminator) are placed in a direct, contradictory relationship. The thesis of one clashes with the antithesis of the other, driving the system to a higher synthesis (a highly realistic output).

True dialectical AI, however, would require a machine capable of actively engaging with changing physical reality and human social practice to constantly restructure its own internal logic.

Are you interested in how Marxist scholars analyze the impact of AI on labor today, or are you more curious about the purely computational side of how a dialectical algorithm might function?

Hello everyone,

I am building a visual framework, trying to understand and explain to others why “productive forces and production relations” are the sources of all contradictions.

>The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life. --Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

My flowchart is as follows : PLEASE help me correct!

https://preview.redd.it/yosdhhvz4nah1.png?width=1796&format=png&auto=webp&s=0c60e69fff6f3cd6fa00310cebcbe60722e00da3

PS：Finished by keynote myself, and No intellectual property rights. Please use it freely without indicating the source if you need.