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- Essay:The Dialectics of Domination
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by Yogthos
Published: 2026-09-23 (last update: 2024-02-06)
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To understand why liberalism is inherently right-wing, it is necessary to discard the views which liberals hold about themselves, and look at the material basis of their ideology
- Essay:TheToolsetOfReality
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by Yogthos
Published: 2026-08-10 (last update: 2024-02-06)
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Many hear the term Dialectical Materialism (or “Diamat”) and think it means entering a world of arcane mysticism or obscure Germanic language. In reality it is simply an analytical toolkit used to analyze and comprehend how the world functions, a worldview which is largely the work of Karl Marx but whose name was coined by Joseph Dietzgen in his description of the method Marxists use for examining reality and connecting high philosophy with rigorous utility. This essay is an introduction to a way of thinking which sees the world as a dynamic interconnected system rather than as a collection of static discrete objects.
- Essay:DefaultSociety
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by Yogthos
Published: 2026-08-10 (last update: 2024-02-06)
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You look at a picture of a busy street in a strange country, and your glance travels from person to person. It notices their dress, the surrounding architecture, the poses they assume. And you might ask yourself if you could live in this place. This is a natural, basic reflex we all have. Each of us has conceived some particular kind of life as worthy of desire, and this conception has been moulded by the customs and traditions of our youth. We take our individual conceptions and transfer them upon those who live by other standards and have different ideals from our own. We imagine that they must be unhappy because they lack the comforts and conveniences which we have come to regard as necessities, or that they cannot be free because their daily life is not governed by the same social understandings and traditions as where we happen to live. But in this moment of judgment, few people are reflective. They do not turn the question back upon themselves and inquire what is the source of their own moral and aesthetic standards.To understand what is really happening, it is necessary to strip away all ornament and look at the facts of human life without any preconceptions. Every civilization begins with the basic fact that we are animals living on a rock in space, with certain needs which are very much the same in all times and places. A certain amount of food is required for our bodies to work properly, and this is measured in terms of calories and protein. We need shelter from the weather so as not to die of cold at night. We need physical and psychological safety as we go about our lives. Above all, we need some means of production so that we can meet our fundamental needs. A society must produce food and goods that its citizens need, which, in turn, require agriculture, manufacture, mining, and all the other industries our modern world depends on. This is the material basis upon which everything else is built up. It must be secured first because nothing else can exist without it. Everything else, such as our laws, our art, and our religion, is an ornament which we have built upon this foundation.
Read more - Essay:ProleWiki ultimate emulation guide
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by Open source
Published: 2026-08-10 (last update: 2024-02-06)
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The ultimate guide to emulating consoles and games on your devices, updated often. No-fuss, no bs, straight to the point. How to start emulating consoles, how to get games on the internet, how to flash your consoles, etc.
- Essay:Quick privacy guide
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by CriticalResist
Published: 2026-05-22 (last update: 2024-02-06)
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Yes, there are many privacy guides. But this one is mine. Meant to be quick and give you the cognitive tools to understand privacy.
- Essay:Liberal Feminism and the Holy Birth
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by Local Gay Communist - LGC
Published: 2026-05-07 (last update: 2024-02-06)
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It is often the case that liberal feminists take as a point of pride the perceived womanliness of the ability to give birth, and use it as a defining factor for the female gender.Author: LGC
Read more - Essay:Crisis Points and why Worse Conditions don't Magically Create Revolution
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by Local Gay Communist - LGC
Published: 2026-05-07 (last update: 2024-02-06)
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This essay exists to clarify the nature of crisis and to demystify them away from idealist conceptions of "natural radicalization".
- Essay:We plant the seeds that will grow
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by CriticalResist
Published: 2026-05-04 (last update: 2024-02-06)
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Short analysis of a visitor to ProleWiki following a viral post, and how people who start off wanting to mock the 'tankies' may very well eventually become Marxists themselves.
- Essay:Decolonizing Caste Mentality and Mixed Identity
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by Charhapiti
Published: 2026-04-16 (last update: 2024-02-06)
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- Essay:How journalism and awards work together to promote genocide and regime change
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by CriticalResist
Published: 2025-07-08 (last update: 2024-02-06)
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- Essay:Western Marxists must stand against UkraineTemplate:Infobox essay.default
- Essay:Debate culture is bourgeois and should be abolished
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by Charhapiti
Published: 2025-12-7 (last update: 2024-02-06)
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- Essay:Summary and Defense of Lenin's Theory of Imperialism
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by Charhapiti
Published: 2025-11-20 (last update: 2024-02-06)
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- Essay:State Capital vs. Finance Capital: Why China is not -- and Cannot Become -- an Imperial Hegemon
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by Charhapiti
Published: 2025-11-20 (last update: 2024-02-06)
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- Essay:A thousand chains we will have to break
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by Comrade Kiwi
Published: 2025-11-15 (last update: 2024-02-06)
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What is the morality of the communist? What are our ethics? On what basis? The morality adequate to our struggle is not the morality of the ruling class dressed as universal ethics but the morality born from the recognition that our liberation requires their expropriation, that our humanity requires the negation of their inhumanity, that our flourishing requires the transformation of the system that produces our immiseration.