Image: Adolf Hitler meets with Thomas J. Watson, head of IBM and president of the International Chamber of Commerce, and other members of the ICC board in 1937 Conspiracy Theory and Class Analysis: Imperialist Covert Operations in the Context of the Class Struggle Medved Pobedy 17 Feb. 2019 LLCO.org “The bourgeoisie are the counter-revolution. They …
Combat Bourgeois Culture by Building New Culture Medved Pobedy 30 January 2019 …[W]e can only regard as achieved what has become part and parcel of our culture, of our social life, our habits… – V.I. Lenin, 1923 [1] Bourgeois Culture The entrenchment of capitalist hegemony throughout the world has led to the development of a …
The Global Hegemony of the U.S. Dollar, a Brief History By Janelle Velina (llco.org) Since the United States entered into the Second World War considerably late, it did not suffer as much damage or casualties as other countries had. It also helped that its geographical location kept its cities from suffering the infrastructural damage seen …
Reflecting on Hard Work and Success: A New Year’s Message from the Director-General (llco.org) This past year has been marked by an assortment of setbacks and victories. However, this New Year we are focusing on one accomplishment of which we should all be particularly proud. In the first months of 2018 we collectively set a …
International Law and its Place in ‘Late-Stage’ Capitalism By Janelle Velina (llco.org) Toronto-based international criminal lawyer and long-time critic of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Christopher Black, recently published a paper titled, “Marx and International Law – A Perspective,” which is now available online on his blog. The paper provides insights on global capital, discussing how …
Two Roads Defeated in the Cultural Revolution Part 1: Young Generals and Mass Movements Prairie Fire18 August 2008LLCO.org Part 2: https://llco.org/two-roads-defeated-in-the-cultural-revolution-part-2-lin-biaos-road/Part 3: https://llco.org/two-roads-defeated-part-3-proletarian-jacobins/ “Is, however, such a ‘terrible accomplishment’ not the elementary gesture of every true revolutionary? Why revolution at all, if we do not think that ‘the customary order of things should never be …
The Leading Light on African Liberation Day 2018 By Jacob Brown, edited by Kwame Twumasi (llco.org) LLCO Ghana at the African Liberation Day program on May 25, 2018: Look at this World Map detailing the Human Development index in 2018 (1): See where the lowest development indicators are? Africa and the Indian subcontinent! This …
Female Chauvinist Pigs : Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (Freepress, New York, 2005, 240 pp. hc.) (llco.org) Ariel Levy’s Female Chauvinist Pigs documents the rise of what she calls “raunch culture” and the roles that women in the United States play in that culture. The book documents something very real. However, it is …
A Year of Progress and Consolidation A New Year’s Message from the Director-General (llco.org) After a tumultuous 2017, the Leading Light Communist Organization stands tall. This past year has been filled with some unexpected difficulties and some proud accomplishments. We have faced our difficulties with patience and resolve, discipline and determination, and we have emerged …
Celebrating the Hundred Year Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution (llco.org) Medved Pobedy 7 November 2017 All Power to the Soviets! – V. Lenin The 7th of November 2017 marks the one hundred year anniversary of the 1917 socialist revolution in Russia, often referred to as the “October Revolution” because it took place on …