*Russia: Marxists face 20-year sentences for studying Lenin’s State and Revolution*
On 25 November 2025, during the closing hearings at the Central Military Court of the Yekaterinburg District, the prosecution demanded 20 to 24 years in a high-security penal colony for the members of a Marxist study circle in the city of Ufa, accusing them of “terrorism” and “conspiracy to overthrow the government.” The five defendants have been detained since February 2022. The court instructed a panel of “experts” to evaluate whether the group’s lectures and reading material could be considered terrorist activity. They declared Lenin’s foundational work State and Revolution to be a “terrorist manual.” The report goes so far as to argue that discussing socialist revolution, Soviets and workers’ power constitutes proof of extremism, asserting that the very “lexicographical meaning of the word ‘revolution’” demonstrates a violent intention to overthrow the state. This judicial persecution unfolds in the same Russia whose leader claims to be conducting an “anti-fascist war,” and which every 9 May attempts to appropriate the legacy of the Anti-Fascist Victory of the USSR over Nazism — a victory achieved by the socialist system that today is being criminalized. The repression of revolutionary ideas is always a sign of a system in crisis. And no prison sentence has ever succeeded in stopping them. –excerpted from https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/11/russia-marxists-face-20-year-sentences-for-studying-lenins-state-and-revolution.html Be sure to spread the word, multipolaristas! A brief report could introduce your next piece of puffery for Aleksandr Dugin. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39541): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39541 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116496671/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
