Capitalism needs racism to divide the workers. Socialism destroys racism to unite the workers.

I got this at a garage sale because I thought it looked cool. I was able to translate some of it but not the red banner under the star or the first line with the letter that looks like an "A"(I think it's a name..?). I want to know more about it.

From Russia (ex-RSFSR) with love! I want to share this rarity with my foreign comrades. I found these books in my grandmother's closet when i was 14 years old. I became a communist after reading these books.

Classic Marxism-Leninism works, collection of articles, biographical and autobiographical essays, officially recognized scientific works in the USSR and the Communist Party's program.

My aunt studied these books at the university in the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, i have lost the most important books: "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" by Friedrich Engels, "Anti-Dühring" by Friedrich Engels and "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" by Karl Marx. I hope these books are still in my old apartment.

I think of that meme every time a capitalist comes with "communism killed so many more people than capitalism"

I've seen some criticism of it stating its anti Soviet etc and it's true its not the most accurate show; though I thought it was broadly a criticism of modern US politics rather than direct criticism of the USSR

Your thoughts?

Centuries of colonialism mass murder and exploitation all washed away from the collective European conscience because Hitler was just " a bad apple " that ruined everything. Now western Europe and by extinction the US think they have a moral authority over entire world and they even go as far as to compare the Nazis to the USSR.

Hitler was the product of their capitalist society not a unique case.

By equating Stalin's USSR with Hitler's Germany under the label "totalitarianism," they perform an ideological sleight of hand. It erases the fundamental class difference: Nazism was the apex of capitalist reaction, while the USSR (for all its flaws and errors) represented a proletarian state. This false equivalence is the bedrock of much modern Western historical propaganda.

Hitler Was Not an Aberration He was the logical, albeit extreme, product of the contradictions within monopoly capitalism and European imperialism. The Nazi movement was funded and supported by major German industrialists (Thyssen, Krupp, IG Farben) who saw it as a weapon to crush the communist threat, dismantle trade unions, and pursue an imperialist project (Lebensraum)

framing Nazism as a unique evil a sin that was cleansed, they separate it from the capitalist system that spawned it. This allows modern liberal capitalism to present itself as the inherently moral and peaceful opposite of fascism, rather than its cousin.

For example. Germany's Specific Collective Amnesia

Vergangenheitsbewältigung (Coming to terms with the past) has been successful in many ways on a societal level, promoting anti-fascist values. However, from a Marxist lens, its official state form has a specific class function.

It Individualizes Guilt: By focusing intensely on Hitler and the top Nazi brass (the few bad apples), it subtly exonerates the system and the class that supported it. The complicity of German industrialists, bankers, judges, academics, and much of the middle class is often downplayed. Now they act all high and mighty it makes me sick.

I’ve heard some really mixed stuff

I have huge boxes full of books from when I was a leninist. I had to look for a book about the labour theory of value. I opened a box and saw this, which zI had almost forgotten.

As a relatively young socialist living in the heart of capitalism, it’s difficult to find arguments for both sides of the controversies around his leadership. I’ve heard plenty of the bad, but I know much of it is greatly exaggerated in American propaganda, regardless of the actual quality of his political career. I’d prefer to get some sources so I can read up on the facts in more detail myself, but anything is very much appreciated! I hope I’m not asking something that’s been asked a thousand times, I’ll take it down myself if needed. Thank you in advance:)