Marxism: An Introductory Reaffirmation

 

  1. Marxism is a systematic critique of political economy based upon a materialist analysis of the development of economy, industry and society over the course of human history.

  2. Marxism is amoral; that is, it does not make claims as to what should or should not happen, but rather, what will or will not happen based upon the conditions that have existed and currently exist within society. 

  3. Marxism posits that the movement of human history is determined by the struggle that occurs between the various economic and social classes that have existed throughout the various periods of human society (plebeians and patricians in Ancient Rome, Lords and Serfs in Medieval Europe and Feudal Asia, and, in our society, the struggle between proletarians and the bourgeoisie).

  4. The struggle that occurs in the modern world between proletarians (workers) and the bourgeoisie (owners) is a struggle which only has two outcomes; the victory of the proletariat and the abolition of capitalism, or the victory of the bourgeoisie and a regression into barbarism (fascism, imperialist world wars, resource wars, climate catastrophe).

  5. Marxism is the only political doctrine that adequately addresses the struggles - both everyday struggles and world-political-historical struggles - of the working class, and as such, is the only doctrine that can guide the working class to victory. This is the case because Marxism is the only doctrine that is based not in vague ideals and idle ponderings, but a firm material analysis of how the current economic order came about, and the means that must be undertaken in order for it to be uprooted and annihilated.

  6. As such, Marxists call for the absolute abolition of the current state of things in every way, shape and form, beginning with the bourgeois state, which is to be replaced by a temporary, revolutionary workers state, and followed by the capitalist ruling class (the bourgeoisie) and ultimately, generalized commodity production, which will be vanquished alongside the capitalists who feed from it.

  7. Thus, any future party which wishes to take up the torch of revolution must strictly abide by the principles which shall be laid out in the following epistles, for they are the principles of Marxism, the one true revolutionary doctrine.

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