International Workers’ Day 2021

Opportunities and Challanges This International Workers’ Day, the Leading Light Communist Organization offers a message of unity and solidarity to all like minded individuals and parties around the world. As we have stated over the course of the last year, we are living through a historic time with unusually high stakes. The next few years …

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Overturning Vulgar Third Worldism: A Practical Internationalist Approach to Revolution

Overturning Vulgar Third Worldism: A Practical Internationalist Approach to Revolution Medved Pobedy 23 June 2020 LLCO.org Last updated 14 August 2020 Contents IntroductionWhat Is “Vulgar” Third Worldism?The Roots of the Labor AristocracyThe Reactionary and Foolish Nature of the Labor AristocracyThe Many Contradictions of CapitalismConvergent and Divergent InterestsPrivilege, Propaganda, and False ConsciousnessThe Problems of Vulgar Third …

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Conspiracy Theory by Intelligent Design

The popular idea that there is one over-arching plot to explains how society moves, the disasters that befall society, the rise and fall of regimes, etc. is inaccurate and counter-productive. Many conspiracy theories parallel the Christian outlook of so-called “intelligent design.” Christians often will see the patterns in nature, then they conclude that such a natural order must be the work of a creator.

Gramsci’s “Jacobin Prince” and Leading Light Communism

Gramsci’s “Jacobin Prince” and Leading Light Communism Jacob Brown LLCO.org Part 2/2 of a series on Leading Light Communism and the Writings of Antonio Gramsci Read part 1 here: https://llco.org/leading-light-communism-and-the-writings-of-antonio-gramsci/ In Greek Mythology, there is a story about how humanity received fire. The Titan Prometheus stole fire from the gods to give it to humans. …

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Leading Light Communism and the Writings of Antonio Gramsci (Part 1/2)

Leading Light Communism and the Writings of Antonio Gramsci Jacob Brown LLCO.org Part 1/2: Cultural Hegemony Read part 2 here: https://llco.org/gramsci-jacobin-prince/ A key component of the power of the bourgeoisie is through the use of what Italian communist Antonio Gramsci called “cultural hegemony”. The global bourgeoisie of today, the Bourgeois “First” World, not only rules …

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On the inverse cripples

On the inverse cripples LLCO.org Through Zarathustra’s remarks on the inverse cripples, Friedrich Nietzsche is criticizing modern intellectuals who are revered as geniuses: “‘[F]or there are human beings who lack everything, except one thing of which they have too much — human beings who are nothing but a big eye or a big mouth or …

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Yoda’s Lessons

Yoda’s Lessons LLCO.org In the Star Wars movies, the force is a bunch of hocus pocus combined with cheesy mysticism. However, in that fictional world, it was the force that gave the jedi his power. Revolutionary science is a real life version of the force for those seeking to destroy imperialism and fight for total …

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