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A retired food service worker, Tammy Erickson, also a political science theoretician and experimental baker, has taught empirical, research oriented, scholarly writing to undergraduate students in China, database management to undergraduate students and medical professionals in the USA, and English to Chinese students in the USA and in China.

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   Mészáros claimed ‘the foundations of the Marxian system’ are centered on the concept of alienation (Mészáros 1970) and this is correct, in addition, there is nothing in it for cultivators. That Marx never grappled fully with the agrarian question (Mavor 1925) was obvious in practice and an argument does not need to be presented that claims leadership failures regarding the agricultural sector originate in Marx’s Theory of Alienation: they actually do originate in it. No theoretical basis exists that justifies Marxism-inspired leaders meddling with agriculture or peasants.  ​​​​

   To-date, volumes in the series Baggage, Baskets, Caskets and Cribs provide a response to the obvious and poor understanding of Karl Marx's works. the conceptual chaos Marx generated about capital, and the useless antagonization of peasants working on organic matter that so obviously accompanied attempted applications of Marx's ideas. The series elaborates on the experience of peasants in Marxism-inspired milieus by way of a rigorous theoretical review and demonstrates how the theoretical rebar Marx used in support of his idea of appropriation of means of production was woefully inadequate to do so. Authors interested in how political science theory impacts agriculturalists and the agricultural sector are encouraged to generate more volumes for the series. 

   It is pertinent to ask "Since Nyerere associated economic justice with the State having ‘effective control over the principal means of production’ (Nyerere 1967), did such justice actually result when leaders in Marxism-inspired milieus did not possess the required consciousness to convert inorganic matter into some thing causing them to confiscate peasant labor and capital instead?" Leaders found ways to justify their benevolent oppression of peasants and since admiration of proletarian consciousness (and not the consciousness of peasants) is the repeating chorus of Marx's theoretical song, and the axe at which he kept uselessly grinding away at, its possession is how those presented as Marxist or aligned leaders are determined to have been, or currently actually are, qualified Marxist leaders. These definitions still holding,

Socialist - a person who advocates or practices socialism, and  

Socialism - a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole (Oxford Languages Dictionary),

it surprises that, when in power, supposedly aligned leaders (also affiliated with Socialist International) are often not qualified to manage such means of production and do not possess the consciousness required to treat inorganic matter.  Unsurprisingly, the townsfolk of Blagovojensk did not want the few workers it had dictating anything (Bullard 1919:175).

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All criticisms are welcomed. As a courtesy, researched criticisms received from the Chinese Communist Party will be posted with permission here (as of today none have been received and not due to the author's lack of trying to acquire at least one):

Criticism number one (第一次批评):

Date received:

Downloadable pdf file:

CCP Official or Office:

 

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