The Indian Bolshevik

  “Everyone here has insurmountably large loans and stands at the precipice of life, Do you want to go home and live the rest of your life like garbage, being chased by creditors? Or do you want to grab this last opportunity, which we are presenting?” - an anonymous game organizer in a mask and pink uniform tells the assembled players in the first episode. The hit Korean show “Squid Game,” where working-class contestants are given a chance to win billions, or literally die trying. It also breathes life to an allegory of capitalism rooted in the alienation of the working class. Also, it never makes its action look glamorous. Squid Game is directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk. The core theme of the series is a group of contesters getting into battle royale style games to win prize money. The show tries to tell us how humans show their true nature when put in extreme situations. on the other hand, it also shows participants actualizing their most human powers — solidarity, tenderness, and empa...

(Vortex Youtube) 1. The Nordic countries are Socialist Nordic countries have free market systems; not government-controlled economies. Their high taxes lead to lavish social benefits. The Nordic nations are welfare states. Their governments do not interfere in business. 2. Socialists want to take away your property This myth confuses private property with personal property. When socialists talk about the abolition of private property, they are referring to the socialization of the means of production—the resources and equipment that create wealth. Working people do not own this type of property—which is why we have to work to survive. Right now, the wealth of the 1,000 billionaires is equal to that of the 3.5 billion poorest people on the planet. To provide everyone with more, that wealth must be redistributed into various welfare programs. 3. The dictatorship of the proletariat is Fascism The two-party “democratic” system under capitalism is in fact a dictatorship of the Bourgeoise. U...

Back in the early '30s after Hitler rose to power many American business tycoons were in close relationship with Hitler himself and or with top nazi leaders. One such example is Henry ford, In 1918, Henry Ford purchased his hometown newspaper,  The Dearborn Independent . A year and a half later, he began publishing a series of articles that claimed a vast Jewish conspiracy was infecting America. The series ran in the following 91 issues. Ford bound the articles into four volumes titled "The International Jew," and distributed half a million copies to his vast network of dealerships and subscribers. Hitler was very much inspired by Ford's writing. In 1938, Ford received an award from the Nazi regime called the "Grand Cross of the German Eagle." Have you ever heard about this? No, you have only known his "motivational quotes"  The 1930s and 40s were the time labour unions gained their ground all over the world and American industrialists and politici...

  In Marxist theory, society consists of two parts: the base/ substructure and the superstructure. Marx defines the base as the social relations between men which create and produce materials that are eventually put up for the exchange. From the base comes a superstructure in which laws, politics, religion and literature legitimize the power of the social classes that are formed in the base.  Antonio Gramsci divided Marx's superstructure into two elements: political society and civil society. Political society consists of the organized force of society (ex: police and military) while civil society refers to the consensus-creating elements (ex: trade unions, political parties, schools and universities, religious institutions, media, NGOs and all other bodies indirectly associated with the State) that contribute to cultural hegemony. Both constituents of this superstructure are still informed by the values of the base, serving to establish and enforce these values in society....

Antonio Gramsci  (1891 – 1937) was a leading Italian Marxist. He was an intellectual, a journalist and a major theorist who spent his last eleven years in Mussolini’s prisons. During this time, he completed 32 notebooks containing almost 3,000 pages. These notebooks were smuggled out from his prison and published in Italian after the war but did not find an English-language publisher until the 1970s. The central and guiding theme of the Notebooks was the development of a new Marxist theory applicable to the conditions of advanced capitalism. His  Prison Notebooks  are considered a highly original contribution to 20th-century political theory. “Hegemony” was most likely derived from the Greek  egemonia , whose root is  egemon , meaning “leader, ruler, often in the sense of a state other than his own”. Since the 19th century, “hegemony” commonly has been used to indicate “political predominance, usually of one state over another”. Gramsci’s “hegemony” refers to a ...