Red Notebook

Welcome to my first blog post! Firstly, I want to say thank you for taking the time to visit. I know the world is on fire right now and you have so many things competing for your attention. I wanted this first blog post to be special but I also didn’t want to get caught up in making everything perfect, ya know? So here’s to just going for it and achieving your goals.

I want to focus the next few weeks of posts around the basics of communism. Every week we’ll go over the core tenets needed to understand communism. What is communism? Are we sharing toothbrushes? Are there no iPhones? Jokes aside, I kind of like the Oxford definition: “A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.” Of course, when trying to define a political theory that encompasses all of our existence, it gets a little hard to do that in a sentence or two. There are omissions from this definition, like Friedrich Engels’ role or the existence of communist societies long before Marx and Engels. Indeed the task of defining this political theory is quite burdensome. But my goal here is to give you the basics, so let’s stick to that!

At it’s core, communism is the belief of class struggle, abolition of private property, a planned economy, a classless society and the transition from capitalism to communism via socialism. Our first task? Let’s talk about class struggle.