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Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? is a 2009 book by British theorist Mark Fisher. It explores Fisher's concept of "capitalist realism", which he takes to describe "the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it.

The book investigates what Fisher describes as the widespread effects of neoliberal ideology on popular culture, work, education, and mental health in contemporary society. Capitalist Realism was an unexpected success and has influenced a range of writers.

The subtitle refers to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's pro-market slogan "There is no alternative".

Capitalist Realism - Wikipedia
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The Leader / Chinese Animation

"A story about Karl Marx and his controversial love for Jenny, his almost-missed friendship with Engels, the evolution of his philosophy, his world-changing thoughts about political economy and his contribution for working class revolution."

Below, a playlist with the seven episodes. The ending theme is particulary cool!

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“With its private property, exploitation of man by man, economic and spiritual enslavement of man, the capitalist system has imposed a heavy burden on everyone, but especially and more barbarously on women. Women were the first slaves in human history, even before slavery. Throughout this history, not to mention prehistory, whether during the Hellenic civilization, Roman times, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, or in modern times, whether in the contemporary bourgeois era of the so-called “refined civilization,” women have been and are becoming the most enslaved, oppressed, exploited and humiliated people in every respect. Laws, traditions, religion, masculine mentality oppressed them and allowed them to be oppressed. Ecclesiastes says; “I find woman more harmful than death,” while St. John Chrysostom has another opinion about women. He says; “Among the wildest animals, you will not find anyone more decadent than a woman”. The theologian and philosopher Saint Thomas Aquinas, one of the most prominent philosophers of medieval reaction, defended the view that “woman's destiny is to live under the heel of men”. To complete these barbaric quotes, Napoleon said; “nature has made women our slaves”. Such were the views of the church and the bourgeoisie about women. Among the bourgeoisie, these views remain valid today. There are countless of philosophers and writers in Europe and all over the world who have made the superiority of men over women a mythological aspiration, norm and even demand. According to them, a man is strong, a warrior, brave and therefore smarter, therefore he is predetermined to rule, to lead, whereas a woman is by nature weak, vulnerable and timid, therefore she must be ruled and handled. Bourgeois theorists such as Nietzsche and Freud also defend the theory that man is active and woman is passive in the same way. This reactionary, anti-scientific theory has led to nazism in politics and sadism in sexology. Our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers suffered under this terrible slavery, they carried these physical and spiritual cruelties on their own backs. Now, when the revolution has triumphed, when socialism has been successfully built in our country, the Party sets before us as a great task, as one of the greatest tasks, the complete and final liberation of women from all the shackles of the painful past, the complete liberation of Albanian women. Marxism teaches us that the participation of women in production and their liberation from capitalist exploitation are the two stages of women's liberation. Our Party, which follows the principles of Marxism-Leninism and applies them faithfully, has liberated the people and especially women from capitalist exploitation through war and revolution and has included them in production.”

— Enver Hoxha, Selected Works, 4, p. 268

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Rote Fahne (Red Flag) of February 26 and 27, 1933

Communist Party of Germany (KPD)

'FASCISM IS THE MORTAL ENEMY OF COMMUNISM!'

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“Because fascism is the form of government of rotten capitalism against a socialist change of the existing capitalist barbarism. The conditions of their continued existence are the destruction of the revolutionary workers' organizations, the beheading of the fighting proletariat, the annihilation of proletarian leadership. Just as Noske crushed Spartacus in 1918/1919 to give capitalism a break, today, at a new point under the post-war capitalist crisis, the organizing force of the proletarian struggle for freedom must be crushed, they chant. The leadership of the ruling class has changed. Its only enemy, communism, has remained the same. Not a hair of a capitalist has been touched, not a bank expropriated, not a stock exchange newspaper banned. But no KPD newspaper is published anymore. The freedom of demonstration for revolutionary workers has been completely abolished. KPD's election material is confiscated, workers are arrested, anti-fascists are murdered by brown gangs, even a poorhouse raided by fascists. The current regime is the largest concentration of all fascist forces to date. It is at the same time the expression of the extreme intensification of the fascist methods of attack against the proletariat, but at the same time it is also the expression of weakness, of the permanent fear of the mass revolutionary uprising, of the understanding of the bourgeoisie that a solution of the crisis seems impossible for the foreseeable future. Fascism is not capable of remedying the general crisis, of cutting off the nodes and contradictions of the Versailles system, or of satisfying even the most elementary and burning needs of the working masses. The more fragile the capitalist system, the bigger, faster and more surprising the internal and external conflicts will be, the narrower the parliamentary base of fascism, the more obstinately, furiously and violently fascism will try to assert itself. In our unshakable will for socialism, we, the German communists and antifascists, know that we are one with Comrade Stalin, the leader of the world Communist party: for the Bolsheviks, there is no fortress that they will not conquer!”

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Liberals will whine about the self-supposed “horrors” of Soviet “forced industrialization” when this is what European industrialization looked like:

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Has there been any serious attempt in calculating as of how many people that died because of work-related circumstances in the West over the period of capitalistic industrialization while furthering the enrichment and power of the bourgeoisie?

We can safely imagine it had to have been tremendously many.

Here is a serious attempt made by the German Marxist Robert Kurz:

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However, the book has, as of 2023, not been translated into other languages from the original German.

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135 years ago, on March 12 (24), 1888, Viktor Eduardovich Kingisepp was born — a professional Bolshevik revolutionary of Russia and Estonia, and one of the main organizers of the banned Communist Party of Estonia.

In the revolutionary movement since 1905, member of the RSDLP(b) since 1906. From 1907–1914 he conducted party work in St. Petersburg, Tallinn; participated in the publication of the newspaper “Kiyr” (“Luch”) in 1913–1914, maintained contact with the Russian Bureau of the Central Committee of the RSDLP, with the Bolshevik faction of the 4th State Duma.

He was repressed several times. In 1914 he was arrested and exiled to Tver, then to Kazan. In 1916 — on the Caucasian front.

After the February bourgeois-democratic revolution he returned to Petrograd; from the beginning of June in Tallinn, one of the leaders of the Bolshevik organization of Estonia. From October 22 (November 4), 1917, deputy chairman of the Estland Regional Revolutionary Committee, organized the Red Guard. From October 26 (November 8), 1917, a member of the executive committee of the soviets of the Estonian region. From March 1918 he worked in Moscow in the Supreme Revolutionary Tribunal and in the Cheka; member of the special commission of inquiry on the case of the rebellion of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, investigator in the case of the Lockhart spy organization.

In March 1918, at the 4th All-Russian Congress of Soviets, he was elected a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. From November 1918 he led the Communist Party of Estonia. At the 1st (1920) and 2nd (1921) congresses of the Communist Party of Estonia he was elected a member of the Central Committee and a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee, created underground printing houses, published the newspaper “Communist”.

On May 3, 1922, Kingisepp was arrested by the authorities of bourgeois Estonia. The Soviet embassy offered to exchange him for two arrested counter-revolutionaries. The Estonians refused, and literally on the same day, Kingisepp, after being tortured and staged a court-martial, was executed.

The shooting took place on a deserted coast. The last words of the Bolshevik sounded exactly as one would expect from a real communist: “Long live Soviet Estonia!”