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Communism is a political and economic ideology that aims to create a classless society in which the community, as a collective, owns and controls the means of production - as opposed to private ownership by rich billionaires under capitalism.

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Its goal is to eliminate private property, which means changing factories and offices to public ownership, but this does not involve taking away your home or phone (as trolls would have you believe).

The ideology aims to create a society where everyone works together for the common good - as opposed to capitalism, where the workers are forced to work to survive. From birth to death, the capitalist system imposes fees and taxes upon the worker. Thus, under capitalism, workers do not work for the common good; instead, they work for the benefit of the rich capitalists that privately own the factories and offices.

Although there are many different branches of communism, it stems from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

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Who Needs the War?

This is a Marxist book that avoids Marxist jargon. Kollontai provides moving arguments as to why we the workers must unite together against our capitalist oppressors.

Principles of Communism
by Friedrich Engels

Engels outlines the basics of communism in a short and practical way.

Who Needs the War?

The cause of war is capitalism, with each major power seeking to monopolize the market and expand its colonies. The people are being used to fight for the profits of their own exploiters, while the true enemy is capitalism and the corrupt class government. The solution is to create a just and better world based on the socialist brotherhood of workers from every country, with power in the hands of the people and the defeat of capitalists and tsars.

Principles of Communism

The Principles of Communism outline the consequences of the abolition of private property, including the management of all means of production by society, the elimination of classes and the division of labor, and the dissolution of existing nationalities and religions. The document also distinguishes communists from other socialist groups and discusses their attitudes towards political parties in different countries.

Socialism and Anarchism (1905)

In this article, Lenin argues that the decision of the Executive Committee of the Soviet of Workers' Deputies to reject the anarchists' application for representation was correct. He explains that the anarchists' philosophy and tactics are inconsistent with the goals of the Soviet, which is a fighting organization for the achievement of definite aims. Lenin also emphasizes the importance of organizing and politically educating the working class during the Russian revolution, and the need to keep the influence of the anarchists over the workers negligible.

Lenin: The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism

This text discusses the philosophy and economic theories of Karl Marx. The author argues that materialism is the only consistent and true philosophy, and that Marx and Engels defended it in the most determined manner. Marx's contribution to philosophy was the development of dialectics, which is the doctrine of development in its fullest, deepest and most comprehensive form, and the doctrine of the relativity of human knowledge that provides us with a reflection of eternally developing matter. The author also explains that Marx extended the cognition of nature to include the cognition of human society, and developed historical materialism as a scientific theory that shows how, in consequence of the growth of productive forces, out of one system of social life another and higher system develops. The author then discusses Marx's economic theories, including his labor theory of value, the doctrine of surplus-value, and the decline of small-scale production under capitalism. Finally, the author discusses the emergence of different socialist doctrines as a response to the exploitation of working people in capitalist societies, and Marx's deduction of the doctrine of the class struggle from world history.

Forward to “Deception of the People with Slogans of Freedom and Equality”

This document is a forward by V.I. Lenin to a pamphlet titled "Deception of the People with Slogans of Freedom and Equality." Lenin discusses the pressing question of equality in Soviet Russia, particularly between workers and peasants. He argues that the choice is between freedom to trade in grain, which leads to the oppression of the poor and the return of undivided power to the landowners and capitalists, or delivery of grain surpluses at a fixed price to the state, which means an alliance between the peasants and the workers to eliminate the possibility of capitalist rule being restored. He urges peasants to unmask the wolves in sheep's clothing who champion "freedom" and "equality" but actually side with the capitalists, and he emphasizes the importance of practical thinking and concrete conditions for a rapprochement between the peasants and the workers against the exploiters, the rich, and the profiteers.

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