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Absolutely brilliant submissions—one and all—to our seventh issue of PLB.
Reviews are currently underway; but, in the meanwhile, check out the cover.
All power to the resistance!
Peace, Land, and Bread
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Peace, Land, and Bread
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Peace, Land, and Bread is a leading voice of contemporary peer-reviewed scholarship, culture, and art from the communist perspective.
- Henry Kissinger, architect of so much death and destruction in the name of US imperialism, has died. Warm and in a bed at the age of 100, Kissinger’s death is a reminder that the world does not remove nor punish murderers and genocidaires—this we must do ourselves.
- “The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many.” -Michael Parenti
- “My name is Aaron Bushnell. I am an active duty member of the United States Air Force and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their
- There is no cooperation, collaboration, or tactical partnership to be made with the enemy.
- Remembering the Old Man today on the anniversary of his passing in 1883. Marx’s final utterance, “last words are for fools who have not said enough,” reminds us that our time is finite and that in death we are left voiceless—our life’s works are all that remain to speak for us.
- As communists, we oppose any and all wars in which poor and working people fight and die for the rich. We seek the defeat of our own reactionary, imperialist governments to bring about “the liberation of humanity from the horrors, misery, savagery and brutality now prevailing.”
- Did you know that the CIA funded socialist journals in the 1950s and 1960s to actively polemicize against existing socialisms and communist-led states? A brief thread.
- Freidrich Engels died on this day in 1885. “Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat” (1847).
- The reactionary “anti-wokeness” found simultaneously in fascist, conservative, chauvinist, and social-patriot discourse is fundamentally misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, and racist. Communism is the progressive force of the oppressed—of those most oppressed by capital.
- A very, very early sneak peak at the front cover of the dust jacket for what will likely be our first hardcover book: the incredible @LunaOi_VN’s translation and annotation of the Vietnamese university textbook, the Curriculum of the Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism!
