Hundred Flowers Marxist Study Group -Chandigarh Chapter

On the 205th birth anniversary of Friedrich Engels...

“Let us not, however, flatter ourselves over-much on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us. Each victory, it is true, in the first place brings about the results we expected, but in the second and third places it has quite different, unforeseen effects which only too often cancel the first.... Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature—but that we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage of all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly.”

— Friedrich Engels.

Hundred Flowers Marxist Study Group — Chandigarh Chapter organized a discussion today on the Friedrich Engels' "Socialism : Utopian and Scientific". Today, August 5th, marks the death anniversary of one of the five great teachers of the proletariat — Friedrich Engels.

The book 'Socialism: Utopian and Scientific' was a part of a larger polemical work 'Anti Dühring', and was published separately as three pamphlets in French with a few extra remarks. It is considered one of the best and most popular summaries of Marxist ideas. Engels discusses the development of pre-Marxist socialist thought and then moves on to dialectical materialism and historical materialism in this work.

Next session on another classical Marxist text will be organized soon.

"...the final causes of all social changes and political revolutions are to be sought, not in men's brains, not in men's better insights into eternal truth and justice, but in changes in the modes of production and exchange. They are to be sought, not in the philosophy, but in the economics of each particular epoch."

— Fredrick Engels (Socialism: Utopian and Scientific)

On the occasion of 130th Death Anniversary (August 5) of FRIEDRICH ENGELS
Hundred Flowers Marxist Study Group invites you to a discussion session on

SOCIALISM: UTOPIAN AND SCIENTIFIC
by Friedrich Engles

🗓️ August 5, 2025, Tuesday
🕓 4 PM onwards
📍 Library Lawn PU, Chandigarh

Contact : 9582712837

On the occasion of 155th birth anniversary of Vladimir Lenin (22 April)

Hundred Flowers Marxist Study Group
invites you to a reading and discussion session on

The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
By Lenin

🗓️ Thursday • 24th April, 2025
🕔 5 PM
📍 Library Lawn, Panjab University, Chandigarh

Contact : 9582712837

23 Jan 2025 • Hundred Flowers Marxist Study Group — Chandigarh Chapter organized a reading and discussion session on 'The Part Played by Labour in Transition from Ape to Man' by Friedrich Engels. This essay is an unfinished manuscript of Engels written in 1876 and forms the ninth chapter of his larger work 'Dialectics of Nature'. Engels lays the basic proposition of his essay in its very beginning itself as he writes "Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source – next to nature, which supplies it with the material that it converts into wealth. But it is even infinitely more than this. It is the prime basic condition for all human existence, and this to such an extent that, in a sense, we have to say that labour created man himself." The reading was followed by an engaging discussion on various aspects of the essays. The relationship of human beings and nature and the current climate crisis at the hands of the capitalist system was discussed in much detail.

Hundred Flowers Marxist Study Group
invites you for a reading and discussion session on

'The Part played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man'
by Friedrich Engels

on

23rd January 2025 • 3:30 PM

at Library Lawn, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

Contact: 9582712837

Hundred Flowers Marxist Study Group (Chandigarh Chapter) organised a session today at Library Lawn, Panjab University, Chandigarh. The topic for today's discussion was 'Marxist Theory of Knowledge'. The discussion circled around questions like what is the source of knowledge? What is the nature of knowledge which is produced in a class society? Can the production of knowledge be seen without its historical context?

It was observed at the outset that knowledge or ideas come from social practice and from it alone. They come from three kinds of social practice, the struggle for production, the class struggle and scientific experimentation. It is an individual's social being that determines his/her consciousness. The process of creation of correct knowledge leads from matter to consciousness and then back to matter, that is, leading from practice to knowledge and then back to practice. This is the Marxist theory of knowledge, the dialectical materialist theory of knowledge. Thus, Knowledge depends on social practice and in turn serves social practice.

The next session of Hundred Flowers in Chandigarh will be organized soon.

A3 posters were put up in different departments of Panjab University in Chandigarh by Hundred Flowers Marxist Study Group remembering Karl Marx on his 206th Birth Anniversary...

"If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, connecting me with nature and man,
is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties?
Is it not, therefore, also the universal agent of separation?"

— Karl Marx

"The absence of theory deprives a revolutionary trend of the right to existence and inevitably condemns it, sooner or later, to political bankruptcy."

- Lenin (Revolutionary Adventurism)

On the occasion of 203rd Birth Anniversary of Friedrich Engels

Remembering 'The General': Friedrich Engels' Contribution to Marxist Philosophy and Science

An online talk by B.Bipin (Marxist political analyst from Marx Circle, Kerala)

The talk will be followed by discussion.

7:30 PM onwards
30th November, 2023, Thursday

To get the Google Meet link, Register here : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecnH0HXLhjwNdulAoDZV0ZVmZSn9zZNC3-E9OGDbjyiR3HMQ/viewform

For further details,
Contact : 9582712837