Marx, women, historical materialism, and the danger of reading historical texts in isolation.

  • diamath [any]@hexbear.net
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    14 days ago

    What’s the most annoying situation you can recall of people taking book passages out of context?

    Ho Chi Minh saying “It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me”

    But really it's

    At first it was patriotism and not yet Communism which made me put my trust in Leninism and in the Third International. Step by step, in the struggle and by combining theoretical study of Marxism- Leninism with practical work, little by little, I came to understand that only socialism and Communism can free the oppressed nations and toiling people in the world from slave