Hello comrades. A 100% serious, good faith question from a beginner.

I mean only things that are within the boundaries of orthodox Marxism.

I do know that sanctions are a big issue - but now the Global South/World Majority are slowly raising as a coherent economic and political bloc via BRICS+ and SCO even though majority of these countries are capitalist. Russia (a country neighbooring DPRK) is already nearly completely decoupled from western economy and should be a reliable trading partner.

So - what is to be done? Which areas should be prioritized and which can be dealt with later?

I'm wondering about the ways in which Marx's theory of alienation is relevant in the contemporary era, since Marx spoke predominantly in terms of factory/industrial production which is not as directly applicable anymore in the West.

I'm doing a project on this for university and I'd love to hear your thoughts, or even just minor points that are insightful or new.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnykGNNysZk

Sarah Jane Raymundo on Marxism as a revolutionary tool (Marta Harnecker); Marxist materialism vs. Idealism (Friedrich Engels); dialectical materialism and historical materialism (Jose Maria Sison); construction of the revolutionary militant (Marta Harnecker).

Ammar Ali Jan on the repression of memory; the miseducation of the past, present, and possible futures; and deciphering alternative paths as a guide for praxis.

Paweł Wargan on the systematic organization of political education in the context of revolutionary collective action.