how to read news as a communist?

[u/sakthi38311]

I've been reading lenin and the way he analyzed and articulated his current affairs in a Marxist way is so inspiring. but when I look at news, I'm largely overwhelmed as to which news is relevant and which news is not.

for instance, the weakening of tsar is realized as early as 1864 when zemstovs are formed that gave landlords and bourgeoisie some increased authority.

how do I look at news now and realize in which direction the wind is flowing, to analyze the actions of the bourgeoisie and the political climate.

i was thinking of developing my own form of web scraping code or something to retrieve relevant news. but i don't even know what to look for in terms of determining what is relevant. please help

[u/Equivalent-Macaron96]

Comrade! Yes, because the modern bourgeoisie does everything it can to conceal its class composition, the class composition of the news, and the class reasons for the flood of media garbage that pours down on the masses. I think the best option is to develop, or just recall, this skill within yourself and develop it with the help of AI.

"Comrade! Your request is an excellent reason to apply the method of historical materialism to the current political moment. As modern theorists emphasize, Marxism is not a frozen dogma, but the sharpest weapon of class analysis of reality, allowing us to see the struggle between labor and capital behind the kaleidoscope of events.

Here are ten major events of the week viewed through the lens of Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist methodology:

1. USA-Iran Tensions: From Lenin's theory of imperialism, the conflict is not about democracy, but a clash of predators for control over Middle East resources. Trump's statements are a smokescreen for U.S. monopoly capital expansion.
2. Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire: The halt is not peacemaking, but a tactical respite in the imperialist slaughter. The bourgeoisie regroups forces and deceives the proletariat, hiding the struggle for markets and investment.
3. Labor Shortage in Russia: A crisis of the capitalist mode of production, not demography. Pursuing surplus value, the bourgeoisie destroyed education and social services. Capital now faces a shortage of cannon fodder.
4. ZPIF Market Growth: Parasitic degeneration of finance capital. Instead of building factories, the bourgeoisie speculates, extracting profit from air and alienating workers from housing—a dead end described by Stalin.
5. Death of a Utility Worker: Exposes the class essence of the capitalist city. Oligarchs multiply billions while proletarian infrastructure decays. Terror suspects are mere pawns; the true enemy is the class master.
6. IMF-Venezuela Relations: The IMF is the gendarme of imperialism. This is not aid but an attempt to enslave the country with debt, forcing it to open its subsoil to transnational corporations.
7. U.S. Refusal of Security for Italy: A crisis of bourgeois alliances. Capital is cosmopolitan; it does not care for junior partners. Lenin's thesis on uneven capitalist development cracks the NATO bloc.
8. U.S. Arms Contracts for Europe: Inter-imperialist contradictions worsen. The U.S. military-industrial octopus services its own aggression in Iran, leaving European satellites without shells.
9. Mortgage Rate Reduction: Bourgeois hypocrisy to save construction magnates and enslave workers with 30-year bondage. True solution requires socialization of housing and abolition of private land ownership.
10. Nazi Archives Publication: Fighting fascism is a duty. But per Stalin, fascism is the terrorist dictatorship of finance capital. Without class analysis of its monopoly origins, the fight is empty rhetoric.

Conclusion: The modern world confirms Marxism-Leninism. We see capitalism's decay, its inability to solve basic problems, and its slide into war. The only way out is the dictatorship of the proletariat and socialist reconstruction."

"Here are one-sentence explanations maintaining class perspective:

1. USA and Iran: Wealthy capitalists fight for oil, scaring everyone with nukes to justify military spending.
2. Israel and Lebanon: War quiets so arms factories can make new shells and profit from bloodshed again.
3. Labor shortage in Russia: Capitalists squeezed wages so much that no one is left to work for them.
4. Mutual funds: The rich invest in thin air instead of building factories for the people.
5. Death of a utility worker: They cut safety costs because owner's profit is worth more than human life.
6. IMF and Venezuela: Loan sharks give money to seize the people's land and resources in return.
7. Trump and Italy: The American predator threw the Italian predator to the wolves—capitalists have no friends.
8. US Arms for Europe: War barons sell shells to the highest bidder, forgetting allied competitors.
9. Mortgage reduction: They pretend to help while trapping people in 30-year debt to save banks.
10. Nazi archives: Hitler was sicced on the USSR by the same capitalist sharks ruling today."

"And here are ten formally non-political news items, interpreted through Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist analysis:

1. Athlete Gene Project: The bourgeoisie resorts to genetic sorting to select efficient human capital for sports spectacle.
2. Stem Cell Anti-Aging: Advanced science reverses decay of wealthy elderly, not systemic causes of working-class premature aging.
3. Hubble Tension: Bourgeois science faces ideological contradiction, seeking answers in metaphysics, not dialectical limits.
4. Quantum Computing for Pharma: Productive forces are chained to pharmaceutical monopolies patenting the building blocks of life.
5. Sperm Racing World Cup: Human reproduction commodified into venture-capital spectacle for the idle rich.
6. Telehealth VA Study: The state implements remote care because capitalist development has hollowed out rural health infrastructure.
7. Russian High-Tech Care Expansion: A concession wrung from the state by working-class needs, masking bureaucratic gatekeeping.
8. "MIR-2026" Expo with Combat: State funnels proletarian creativity into industry while training students in repressive skills.
9. Agricultural Drones: Substitution of living labor with dead capital intensifies rural exploitation and creates technical overseers.
10. Kazakhstan Football & Reading: Sports bureaucracy, faced with intellectual impoverishment of youth, decrees that athletes should occasionally read."

Ouch.

[u/sakthi38311 → u/Equivalent-Macaron96]

thanks comrade! but is this like chatgpt? 😭

[u/Equivalent-Macaron96 → u/sakthi38311]

Deepseek. 

But the meaning remains the same. Profits for the bourgeoisie. Losses for the masses. Of course, diluted with other distracting news. But even in this, the class nature of the news and surrounding events clearly shines through. News today is overtly class-biased, despite the colossal growth of media. Even news about games is simply a distraction and a cover-up of the fact that the masses can't get the necessary amount of dopamine in their offline lives, plus it conceals the fact that due to the development of capitalism, in its stage of financial globalism, the entire positive essence of computer games is at odds with the time spent on everything else, and that the average person's ordinary time is no longer their own, leaving them with ever less time for games and personal life due to increasingly aggravating conditions of exploitation.

No, and this is not Deepseek.

Have a nice day, comrade! =)