- Capitalism is a system that is constituted by the antagonism between the exploited (proletariat) and exploiting classes (bourgeoisie).
- Generalized wage-labor and commodity-production are defining features of capitalism.
- Generalized wage-labor and commodity-production are governed by the law of value.
- Capitalism is actively hindering the human community from entering into its final stage of a classless and stateless society.
- It is the historic task of the state to protect capitalism.
- It is the historic task of the proletariat to negate capitalism, effectively establishing a classless/stateless society.
- Communism is the existing movement of the proletariat to complete its historic task.
- A world communist party is a required instrument for the proletariat to achieve its historic task.
- The October Revolution of 1917 has, so far, been the highest expression of the proletariat’s struggle to achieve this task.
- Common ownership of the economy is the defining feature of communism.
- Communism is not governed by the law of value.
- Capitalism cannot be gradually reformed into communism.
- Communism cannot be established through the administration of the capitalist state.
- Communism is not the state management of the economy.
- Communism is not workers self-management of the economy.
- Communism negates the nation-state.
- Communists support women’s and sexual liberation.
- Communists oppose racism.
- Communists support the decommodification of animals.
- The ‘left-wing of capital’ is the opportunist co-opting of proletarian struggle, and degeneration into bourgeois-democratic politics.
- Communists oppose joining fronts and coalitions with sections of the ‘left-wing of capital’.
- Communists oppose participation in electoral politics
- Communists oppose national liberation.
- Communists oppose individualist/anti-centralist political action that causes disorganization/fragmentation among the class, i.e. looting, plundering, ‘rioting’, banditry, etc.
- Communists oppose the militarization of political struggle, i.e. guerrilla warfare, protracted people’s war, foco, etc.
- The USSR (1921-1989), Eastern Bloc, China (1949-1978), Cuba, etc. are all examples of state-capitalism.
- Communists equally oppose state-capitalism and private capitalism
- Communists oppose all sides of imperialist war.
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