Marx for US democracy

 You know that the institutions, mores, and traditions of various countries must be taken into consideration, and we do not deny that there are countries -- such as America, England, and if I were more familiar with your institutions, I would perhaps also add Holland -- where the workers can attain their goal by peaceful means.

IWMA 1872: La Liberte speech

His kamaraden

Engels in Deutsche-Brüsseler-Zeitung 1848: "In America we have witnessed the conquest of Mexico and have rejoiced at it. It is also an advance when a country which has hitherto been exclusively wrapped up in its own affairs, perpetually rent with civil wars, and completely hindered in its development, a country whose best prospect had been to become industrially subject to Britain — when such a country is forcibly drawn into the historical process. It is to the interest of its own development that Mexico will in future be placed under the tutelage of the United States. The evolution of the whole of America will profit by the fact that the United States, by the possession of California, obtains command of the Pacific"

Adam Smith 1

 Karl Marx  0

Letter from Marx to Pavel Vasilyevich Annenkov, 1846: "As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of slavery. I do not mean indirect slavery, the slavery of proletariat; I mean direct slavery, the slavery of the Blacks in Surinam, in Brazil, in the southern regions of North America.

Direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. Without slavery there would be no cotton, without cotton there would be no modern industry. It is slavery which has given value to the colonies, it is the colonies which have created world trade, and world trade is the necessary condition for large-scale machine industry. Consequently, prior to the slave trade, the colonies sent very few products to the Old World, and did not noticeably change the face of the world. Slavery is therefore an economic category of paramount importance. Without slavery, North America, the most progressive nation, would he transformed into a patriarchal country. Only wipe North America off the map and you will get anarchy, the complete decay of trade and modern civilisation. But to do away with slavery would be to wipe America off the map . . ."

Adam Smith, widely considered the first major theorist of capitalism, abhorred the institution of slavery. "Whatever work [a slave] does…can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own," he wrote in 1776. In an earlier lecture, Smith indicted laws that "strengthen the authority of the masters and reduce the slaves to a more absolute subjection." The plantation system at the core of this economy was not a competitive market; planters had secured a state-sanctioned "monopoly against all the rest of the world" and "indemnif[ied] themselves by the exorbitancy of their profites for their expensive and thriftless method of cultivation." Smith singled out the exceptional cruelty found in the British colonies of "Jamaica and Barbadoes, where slaves are numerous and objects of jealousy [and] punishments even for slight offences are very shocking."

Marxists work ethic

And SCIENTIFIC RACISM 

 The Protestant work ethic was deployed to justify child labour at home and forced labour abroad. “It is necessary to use methods that best can shake their idleness and make them realise the sanctity of work,” was how the Belgian King Leopold II rationalised working millions to death in Congo Free State. 

KARL  " A general prohibition of child labor is incompatible with the existence of large-scale industry and hence an empty, pious wish. Its realization -- if it were possible -- would be reactionary . . . " MARX 1875

 
CAPACITY FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPENDS ON RACE

Capital, vol. 3, chapter 47: "The possibility is here presented for definite economic development taking place, depending, of course, upon favourable circumstances, inborn racial characteristics, etc . . . "

 RACE A DETERMINING FACTOR IN HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT

Engels: (Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Vol. 3, p. 502.): "We regard economic conditions as the factor which ultimately determines historical development. But race is itself an economic factor".

The realization and suppression of humanist anarchy

 https://search.worldcat.org/title/Politics-and-opinion-in-the-nineteenth-century-an-historical-introduction/oclc/227851

B  1954  D  2010

Claudiness the God

 https://samuelalbanie.substack.com/p/reflections-on-2025?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true

it did not take long to discover that the Compute Theory of Everything is 50 years old and has been waiting patiently in a Stanford filing cabinet since the Ford administration.

In 1976, Hans Moravec wrote an essay called “The Role of Raw Power in Intelligence“, a document that possesses both the punch and the subtlety of a hand grenade. 

Anti-imperialists go fuck yourself

 Rockhill is a member of PSL, co-owner with WWP of the Marcyite subsector of Trotskyism.

To the point about Western Marxism: Gabriel Rockhill only pretends to dislike “Western Marxism” as a label for the fake Marxists of the middle of the last century. You can tell that he actually accepts the “Western” implication when he defines, “Western Marxism is the specific form of Marxism that has arisen in the imperial core and been spread around the world through cultural imperialism.”

Rockhill can only see U.S. and Western imperial brutality and plunder, not monopoly capitalist exploitation.
• He praises BRICS as if it were anti-imperialist (ICSS presentation, Sept. 8, 2024).
• He speaks of “China and Russia, which are opposing fascism” – two countries that suppress their working class with bare knuckles (ICSS presentation, Jan. 28, 2024).

The CIA, through the Congress for Cultural Freedom and other fronts, waved the red flag to smother the red flag in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. Rockhill does much the same thing: he rehashes exposés of those days in order to promote multipolarista illusions now. . . "

Monotony

 Bored and with not much to do, the group spend their time playing Monopoly. They eagerly await the arrival of a new contact. His name is Paul; he arrives from training camps in Africa where he has gained experience. Paul is assigned to live with Hilde. He rapes her.

The tension among the conspirators gets even worse when Paul is gunned down by the authorities at a restaurant. Edgar witnesses his death and sees his father, Officer Gast, at the scene. Paul's death scares the members of his gang.

After Paul's death, the terrorists believe that there is a traitor among them. August makes the others think that it was Franz. August sets up Franz by telling him where Ilse is buried. He then calls the authorities and gets him killed. August also does the same to Petra when she is instructed to place a bomb and gets intercepted and killed by the police.