Communist Study Corner: Edition #5 Excerpt from F. Engels 1882 With an Introduction by Dr.Muhammad Abu Nasr, Editorial Board of the Free Arab Voice www.freearabvoice.org Dear all, As we think about the Jewish question, here's an interesting quote from Friedrich Engels, taken from Volume 46 of the Marx-Engels Works (International Publishers, NY). For historical background, in 1882 the British took over Egypt on the pretext that the Egyptian regime (the Khedive) owed Britain and France money and was mismanaging its funds.  A rebellion by patriotic Egyptian officer 'Urabi Pasha was put down by a British invasion, and with that Egypt became a British colony officially until 1919; really until Nasser's revolution in 1952. Here's a short observation made at the time by Engels. Notice that he can say the word "Jews" without apologizing or hiding his face, and how he has no problem talking about Jewish collective actions.  If somebody makes a statement today such as Engels made in 1882, that would be regarded as "racism" and "anti-Semitism." Comradely, Muhammad Abu Nasr -------------------------------------------------- p. 337 "The whole Egyptian affair is an act of vengeance by the Jews (Rothschild, Erlanger, etc.) for their erstwhile expulsion from Egypt under Pharaoh." Friedrich Engels in a letter to August Bebel, 23 September 1882. Soviet editors' footnote No. 391 on page 520:  “An allusion to the Biblical legend about the Jews’ flight from Egyptian captivity.  In 1875, assisted by the Rothschild banking house in Britain and in France (Erlanger was the Rothschilds’ representative in Egypt), the British Prime Minister Disraeli bought for the British government the Suez Canal shares belonging to the Egyptian Khedive.” Notes: Benjamin Disraeli (First Earl of Beaconsfield) 1804-1881) British statesman and author, a Tory leader; Chancellor of the Exchequer (1852, 1858-1859 and 1866-1868) and Prime Minister (1868 and 1874-1880). Michel Erlanger (1828-1892) merchant, employee at the Rothschild banking house in France; Rothschilds’ representative in Egypt in the 1880s. Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905) head of the Rothschild banking house in France. ************************* Communist Study Corner #4: Revolutionary Violence and Gun-based Politics Selectioned Quotes of General Giap, Chairman Mao, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il General Giap Explains the Universal Law of Revolutionary Violence During National Liberation Struggles "The Marxist-Leninist doctrine on class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat affirms the role of violence in revolution, makes a distinction between unjust, counter-revolutionary violence and just, revolutionary violence, between the violence of the exploiting classes, and that of the masses."---General Vo Nguyen Giap "Violence is the universal objective law of all thorough national liberation revolutions." ---General Vo Nguyen Giap Chairman Mao on Correctly Understanding  Revolutionary War, Politics, and the Gun "Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. " --- Mao Tse Tung "A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous.  A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another." ---Mao Tse Tung "War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes." --- Mao Tse Tung "Every Communist must grasp the truth, Political power rows out of the barrel of a gun. Our Principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party." --- Mao Tse Tung Marshal Kim Jong Il Explains the Scientific Mode of Songun Politics "The revolutionary line of Songun, the Songun politics, is the scientific revolutionary line and the mode of politics which reflects the requirements of the times and the revolution most correctly."---Marshal Kim Jong Il "While administering the Songun politics, our Party put forward not the working class but the People's Army as the main force of the revolution. This has started from a new opinion and a new viewpoint on the problem of the main force of the revolution and the problem of the role of the revolutionary army in the revolution and construction." ---Marshal Kim Jong Il Historic Lessons from Kim Il Sung " In order to guarantee success in the Korean revolution, we must, first of all, organize and wage an armed struggle against the Japanese imperialists. As the historical experience and lessons of the anti-Japanese struggle show, no one can bring us independence on a tray; we can never vanquish the Japanese imperialists and win national independence by peaceful means. Moreover, the present situation urgently demands that we wage an organized armed struggle against the Japanese imperialists. Since the Japanese imperialists are intensifying their suppression without precedent and we are dealing with an enemy armed to the teeth, we must gradually build up the violent mass struggle into an organized armed struggle. In colonies an armed struggle against imperialism is the law of the development of the national-liberation movement. Owing to its intrinsic aggressive and predatory nature, imperialism will never withdraw from the colonies of its own accord, and will always resort to brutal violence to maintain its colonial rule. So the imperialist forces of aggression must be smashed by revolutionary armed forces. We must overthrow the Japanese imperialist aggressors and achieve national liberation and independence by our own efforts. Therefore, we must rapidly build up our strength by making good preparations for organizing and waging an anti-Japanese armed struggle. To prepare ourselves well for an armed struggle, we must first organize a Korean Revolutionary Army. We must form the Korean Revolutionary Army, a revolutionary armed organization, out of young communists educated and trained in revolutionary organizations including the Young Communist League and the Anti-Imperialist Youth League. We must thus accumulate the necessary all-round experience for armed struggle. In order to make the Korean revolution a success, we must also arouse and unite all the anti-Japanese patriotic forces and marshal them for the sacred struggle against the Japanese. In essence, revolution is a struggle to liberate the masses of people, so it cannot triumph without the participation of the broad masses. Moreover, since we intend to defeat the Japanese imperialists and free the whole nation by relying on the efforts of the Koreans themselves, we must unite as one all the forces opposed to the Japanese imperialists. That is why we must rally under the anti-Japanese banner all the forces with anti-Japanese tendencies, including men of religion and conscientious non-comprador capitalists, to say nothing of the workers and peasants." --- Kim Il Sung, The Path of the Korean Revolution Report to the Meeting of Leading Personnel of the Young Communist League and the Anti-Imperialist Youth League Held at Kalun, June 30, 1930 - Only those who have shed their blood andd sacrificed their lives to repossess their country can be said to have fully experienced how valuable their fatherland is and how arduous and tortuous is the road to return to it. (Volume 3) - War is not only a contest of strength, but also a test of morality and ethics. An army that neglects the influence which morality exerts on the course of a war or regards it as an inessential adornment is no more than a heap of rubbish. (Volume 3, Chapter 8 Under the Banner of the Anti-Japanese Struggle, 3. The Battle of the Dongning County Town) - It is elementary political knowledge thaat where there are people, there is a state and where there is a state, there is an armed force. (Volume 3, Chapter 9 The First Expedition to North Manchuria, 1. The Korean Peopled Revolutionary Army) - It is inevitable that the nation which hhas been deprived of its sovereignty will organize its armed force for its restoration. (Volume 3, Chapter 9 The First Expedition to North Manchuria, 1. The Korean Peopled Revolutionary Army) - It is a common practice in colonies or ssemi-colonial countries for the armed forces of resistance to be organized on a small scale initially, expanded with gradual stealth and, when conditions are ripe, unified into a command. At the initial stage, when it returned from exile in Mexico, Fidel Castro's unit had 82 soldiers, of whom only 12 men survived. These people, equipped with seven rifles, went into the Sierra Maestra Mountains, developed their strength by expanding their ranks, and then attacked Havana, toppling the pro-US dictatorial regime of Batista as swiftly as lightning. (Volume 3, Chapter 9 The First Expedition to North Manchuria, 1. The Korean People's Revolutionary Army) - How could there possibly not be any sacrrifice in the fight against this formidable enemy, the imperialists, who are deaf to any appeal or petition and are immune to terrorism? Death does not discriminate between friend and foe, between justice and injustice. The only difference is in its significance; the death of a revolutionary soldier saves ten lives, the deaths of ten soldiers-a hundred lives, of a hundred soldiers-a thousand lives. That is the significance of the death of revolutionary soldiers. (Volume 3, Chapter 9 The First Expedition to North Manchuria, 5. The Snowstorm in the Tianqiaoling Mountains) - The guerrilla war was a blast furnace annd a political and military academy that produced fighters. And this blast furnace produced only pure steel. Those who had tilled stony fields or raised cattle and horses in the landlords' stables had become competent fighters after having been tempered in this blast furnace. The anti-Japanese political and military academy made fighters of even those rustic dunces and casual laborers who had thought that wealth and poverty depended on the lines of their palms, or on what the fortune tellers and sorceresses had to say. (Volume 4, Chapter 10 With the Conviction of Independence, 5. The Seeds of the Revolution Sown over a Wide Area) ***************** Communist Study Corner #3: Iraqi Communist Party Al-Cadre on H.E. President Saddam Hussein 1. Saddam was, until his capture, an important part of the liberation equation. He is Iraqi and Iraq, the first country on earth to devise laws and legislation, is the one entitled to make an accounting of him for his past deeds. Saddam and the issues of his rule and the regime are purely internal Iraqi issues. In no way do they call for the occupation of Iraq. In other words, Iraq is not only Saddam Hussein, and the alternative to the toppling of Saddam Hussein is not the occupation of Iraq. 2. Response from the ICP-Cadre http://www.alkader.net/ To Whom It May Concern, It looks like there has been some misunderstanding of the ICP-Cadre statement and its position on Saddam Hussein. Hence, we would like to clarify our position on the trial of president Saddam Hussein: 1:we in ICP-Cadre believe that Saddam Hussein is still the president of Iraq 2: we stand with him in the war he led against the imperialists 3: there was communication between the president and us while he was still free 4:we in IPC-Cader reject any trial for Presdint Saddam by the USA, the UK, Nato, the UN, the Hague, or Bremer's Council. Finally, we believe that the Americans can not afford to put the President on trial because they do not have anything on him. ICP-Cadre ********************* Communist Study Corner: Edition #2 Lenin- Address To The Second All-Russia Congress Of Communist Organisations Of The Peoples Of The East Chairman Mao- " THE PLACE OF ANTAGONISM IN CONTRADICTION" Excerpt From "The Creation of the Korean People's Army" ---Great Leader KIM IL SUNG Let Us Intensify the Anti-Imperialist and Anti-U.S. Struggle: Great Leader KIM IL SUNG Comrade Kim Jong Il Defies Revisionism: On Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin ***************** Communist Study Corner #1 Communist Study Corner: Excerpts from “On the Jewish Question”- Karl Marx, “Foundations Of Leninism”- Josef V. Stalin, and Various Passages from Marshal Kim Jong Il on the Role of the Leader Communist Study Corner: Excerpts from “On the Jewish Question”- Karl Marx, “Foundations Of Leninism”- Josef V. Stalin, and Various Passages from Marshal Kim Jong Il on the Role of the Leader Misc. Selected Passages From “On the Jewish Question” – Karl Marx “You Jews are egoists if you demand a special emancipation for yourselves as Jews. As Germans, you ought to work for the political emancipation of Germany, and as human beings, for the emancipation of mankind, and you should feel the particular kind of your oppression and your shame not as an exception to the rule, but on the contrary as a confirmation of the rule.” “In wanting to be emancipated from the Christian state, the Jew is demanding that the Christian state should give up its religious prejudice. Does he, the Jew, give up his religious prejudice? Has he, then, the right to demand that someone else should renounce his religion?” “ Man, as the adherent of a particular religion, finds himself in conflict with his citizenship and with other men as members of the community. This conflict reduces itself to the secular division between the political state and civil society. For man as a bourgeois [here, meaning, member of civil society, private life ], "life in the state" is "only a semblance or a temporary exception to the essential and the rule". Of course, the bourgeois, like the Jew, remains only sophistically in the sphere of political life, just as the citoyen only sophistically remains a Jew or a bourgeois. But, this sophistry is not personal. It is the sophistry of the political state itself. The difference between the merchant and the citizen, between the day-laborer and the citizen, between the landowner and the citizen, between the merchant and the citizen, between the living individual and the citizen. The contradiction in which the religious man finds himself with the political man is the same contradiction in which the bourgeois finds himself with the citoyen, and the member of civil society with his political lion's skin. “ “Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew. What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Very well then! Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Judaism, would be the self-emancipation of our time. " “An organization of society which would abolish the preconditions for huckstering, and therefore the possibility of huckstering, would make the Jew impossible. His religious consciousness would be dissipated like a thin haze in the real, vital air of society. On the other hand, if the Jew recognizes that this practical nature of his is futile and works to abolish it, he extricates himself from his previous development and works for human emancipation as such and turns against the supreme practical _expression of human self-estrangement. “ “We recognize in Judaism, therefore, a general anti-social element of the present time, an element which through historical development -- to which in this harmful respect the Jews have zealously contributed -- has been brought to its present high level, at which it must necessarily begin to disintegrate. “ “In the final analysis, the emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation of mankind from Judaism” “This is no isolated fact. The Jew has emancipated himself in a Jewish manner, not only because he has acquired financial power, but also because, through him and also apart from him, money has become a world power and the practical Jewish spirit has become the practical spirit of the Christian nations. The Jews have emancipated themselves insofar as the Christians have become Jews. “ “Indeed, in North America, the practical domination of Judaism over the Christian world has achieved as its unambiguous and normal _expression that the preaching of the Gospel itself and the Christian ministry have become articles of trade, and the bankrupt trader deals in the Gospel just as the Gospel preacher who has become rich goes in for business deals. “ “Judaism continues to exist not in spite of history, but owning to history.” “The Jew is perpetually created by civil society from its own entrails. “ “What, in itself, was the basis of the Jewish religion? Practical need, egoism.” “The monotheism of the Jew, therefore, is in reality the polytheism of the many needs, a polytheism which makes even the lavatory an object of divine law. Practical need, egoism, is the principle of civil society, and as such appears in pure form as soon as civil society has fully given birth to the political state. The god of practical need and self-interest is money.” “Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man -- and turns them into commodities. Money is the universal self-established value of all things. It has, therefore, robbed the whole world -- both the world of men and nature -- of its specific value. Money is the estranged essence of man's work and man's existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he worships it. “ “The god of the Jews has become secularized and has become the god of the world. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange.” “The view of nature attained under the domination of private property and money is a real contempt for, and practical debasement of, nature; in the Jewish religion, nature exists, it is true, but it exists only in imagination.” “The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of of the merchant, of the man of money in general.” “The groundless law of the Jew is only a religious caricature of groundless morality and right in general, of the purely formal rites with which the world of self-interest surrounds itself.” “Here, too, man's supreme relation is the legal one, his relation to laws that are valid for him not because they are laws of his own will and nature, but because they are the dominant laws and because departure from them is avenged.” “Jewish Jesuitism, the same practical Jesuitism which Bauer discovers in the Talmud, is the relation of the world of self-interest to the laws governing that world, the chief art of which consists in the cunning circumvention of these laws.” “By its very nature, the religion of practical need could find its consummation not in theory, but only in practice, precisely because its truth is practice.” “Judaism could not create a new world; it could only draw the new creations and conditions of the world into the sphere of its activity, because practical need, the rationale of which is self-interest, is passive and does not expand at will, but finds itself enlarged as a result of the continuous development of social conditions.” “From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is, therefore, the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.” “Christianity had only in semblance overcome real Judaism. It was too noble-minded, too spiritualistic to eliminate the crudity of practical need in any other way than by elevation to the skies.” “Christianity is the sublime thought of Judaism, Judaism is the common practical application of Christianity, but this application could only become general after Christianity as a developed religion had completed theoretically the estrangement of man from himself and from nature. Only then could Judaism achieve universal dominance and make alienated man and alienated nature into alienable, vendible objects subjected to the slavery of egoistic need and to trading.” “Consequently, not only in the Pentateuch and the Talmud, but in present-day society we find the nature of the modern Jew, and not as an abstract nature but as one that is in the highest degree empirical, not merely as a narrowness of the Jew, but as the Jewish narrowness of society. Once society has succeeded in abolishing the empirical essence of Judaism -- huckstering and its preconditions -- the Jew will have become impossible, because his consciousness no longer has an object, because the subjective basis of Judaism, practical need, has been humanized, nd because the conflict between man's individual-sensuous existence and his species-existence has been abolished. The social emancipation of the Jew is the emancipation of society from Judaism.” Comrade Josef V. Stalin’s Lessons For the Anti-Imperialist Forces! Key Excerpt From “The Foundations of Leninism” “The unquestionably revolutionary character of the vast majority of national movements is as relative and peculiar as is the possible reactionary character of certain particular national movements. The revolutionary character of a national movement under the conditions of imperialist oppression does not necessarily presuppose the existence of proletarian elements in the movement, the existence of a revolutionary or a republican programme of the movement, the existence of a democratic basis of the movement. The stuggle that the Emir of Afghanistan is waging for the independence of Afghanistan is objectively a *revolutionary* struggle, despite the monarchist views of the Emir and his associates, for it weakens, disintegrates and undermines imperialism; whereas the struggle waged by such "desperate" democrats and "Socialists," "revolutionaries" and republicans as, for example, Kerensky and Tsereteli, Renaudel and Scheidemann, Chernov and Dan, Henderson and Clynes, during the imperialist war was a *reactionary* struggle, for its result was the embellishment, the strengthening, the victory, of imperialism. For the same reasons, the struggle that the Egyptian merchants and bourgeois intellectuals are waging for the independence of Egypt is objectively a *revolutionary* struggle, despite the bourgeois origin and bourgeois title of the leaders of the Egyptian national movement, despite the fact that they are opposed to socialism; whereas the struggle that the British "Labour" Government is waging to preserve Egypt's dependent position is for the same reasons a *reactionary* struggle, despite the proletarian origin and the proletarian title of the members of that government, despite the fact that they are "for" socialism. There is no need to mention the national movement in other, larger colonial and dependent countries, such as India and China, every step of which along the road to liberation, even if it runs counter to the demands of formal democracy, is a steam-hammer blow at imperialism, i.e., is undoubtedly a *revolutionary* step.” -- J. V. Stalin. "The Foundations of Leninism," ch.vi "the national question". Published in Pravda, April-May 1924. This quote appears in "J. Stalin, Works," Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1953. vol. 6, pp. 148-149. Kim Jong Il's Clarifications With Regards to the Role of the Leader www.geocites.com/songunpoliticsstudygroup/RevolutionaryLessons.html - KIM JONG IL Selected Works 9 p.254-255 The leader rouses the masses to the revolutionary struggle and construction by creating the guiding ideology of revolution and uniting the masses and leads their struggle in transforming nature and society to victory by setting forth correct strategies and tactics. The practical experience of the international communist movement and our revolution has eloquently proven that the leader plays a decisive role in the revolutionary struggle. Since the leader, the party and the masses constitute a single socio-political organism, the role of the leader in the revolutionary struggle is unified with the role of the party and the masses. On Greatness of Kim Il Sung (Quotes from Kim Jong Il) Material Provided by the National Democratic Front of South Korea for a KIM IL SUNG Study and Tribute Section http://www.geocities.com/songunpoliticsstudygroup/GreatPresidentKIMILSUNGTribute.html "The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung looked upon his people as his God, loved them dearly, trusted them deeply and devoted everything to the cause of their freedom and happiness while he himself suffered hardships of every description throughout his life." "The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung devoted his whole life solely to the motherland and to his people, and to the revolutionary cause of the working class, bearing the destinies of the country and nation on his shoulders, since he embarked on the revolutionary struggle in his early years." "President Kim Il Sung is the great father who holds dear all the people and leads them, and the benevolent sun whom all the people follow and look up to." "The founder king of our nation is Tangun, but the father of socialist Korea is the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung." "The validity of his ideas, leadership and virtue is the three traits characteristic of the greatness of President Kim Il Sung."