Marxism, Leninism, and Revolution
Like Duolingo, but for Marxism, Leninism, and Revolution. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
22 levels across 3 sections, about 44 minutes end to end, roughly 9 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Deconstructing the Capitalist Machine, Leninism and the Strategy of Power, and Socialist Transition and Theoretical Debates. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in Marxism, Leninism, and Revolution
- Machinery and raw materials only transfer their existing value into the new good
- Wages cover the cost to reproduce the worker, which requires fewer hours than the shift
- Labor power creates more exchange value during the workday than its market cost
- Surplus value arises even when wages strictly match the true market value of labor power
- The standard workday divides into necessary labor time and unpaid surplus labor time
- Exploitation is built into normal capitalist production rather than dishonest exchange
- Class is defined by owning or lacking ownership of the means of production
- High salary alone does not make a worker bourgeois if they rely on wage labor
- Small business owners who work their own property belong to the petite bourgeoisie
- Commodity fetishism presents exchange value as an inherent physical trait of the object
- Market prices obscure the real network of human labor that created the product
- Social ties between exploited producers masquerade as objective relations between things
- A pool of unemployed job-seekers keeps employed workers from demanding higher wages
- The reserve army provides an immediate labor pool during rapid economic expansions
- Structural unemployment prevents wages from rising enough to erase surplus value
- The economic base consists of productive forces and real relations of production.
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Marxism, Leninism, and Revolution the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
Under capitalism, what determines a worker's wage?
Get it right to open this lesson and 21 more in the app.
Where Marxism, Leninism, and Revolution takes you
Understand the core mechanics of Marxist economics, Leninist strategy, and the structural struggle between the working and ruling classes. Explore how revolutionary theory analyzes capitalism and envisions the socialist transition.
- 1
Deconstructing the Capitalist Machine
- The Mechanics of Capitalist Exploitation
- Historical Materialism and Systemic Contradiction
- 2
Leninism and the Strategy of Power
- The Vanguard Party and Class Consciousness
- Imperialism as the Highest Stage of Capitalism
- The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
- 3
Socialist Transition and Theoretical Debates
- The Two Phases of Communist Society
- Strategic Divergences within Marxism
3 sections · 7 units · 22 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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