Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by PEREKHODA Hanna
On the centenary of Vladimir Lenin’s death, this article revisits his pre-1917 writings on the right of nations to self-determination from the perspective of his Ukrainian contemporary, Lev Yurkevych.
Unlike the well-known polemic between Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg, the critique of Lenin’s views (…)
, by ALI Zahid, JAN Ammar Ali
"Lenin is a thinker of combinations of struggles that can help produce an alternative politics that could not only confront the hegemony of capital over people’s lives, but also undermine the power of the state that uses coercion to separate people from each other.
We must acknowledge that (…)
, by BUDRAITSKIS Ilya, GUILLORY Sean
“The (Russian) state needs a Lenin shorn of his political ideas and real biographies, a Lenin-monument. Whenever he becomes a true Lenin, a rebel and destroyer of the old order, the authorities automatically begin to regard him as a monster.”—says the historian and political theorist Ilya (…)
, by MORRISON Derrick
Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels Through the Revolution of 1905. The Ballot, the Streets — or Both. By August H. Nimtz. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 244 pages, $100 hardcover.
Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from 1907 to the October Revolution of 1917. The Ballot, the Streets — or Both. (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
The following was presented by Paul Le Blanc to the “Organising for 21st century socialism” seminar in Sydney on June 8, 2013. The seminar was organised by the Socialist Alliance. Le Blanc also addressed meetings in Wollongong, Melbourne and Adelaide.
In the first portion of these remarks I (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
Today’s remarkable period of world capitalist crisis and global insurgency is causing a growing number of activists to move in revolutionary directions – creating exciting opportunities to help more and more of the rising generation connect with the resources of revolutionary Marxism, vibrantly (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
In this critical review of Pham Binh’s essay “Mangling the Party: Tony Cliff’s Lenin,” Paul Le Blanc argues that Binh’s single-minded focus on demolishing Cliff’s work leads to misinformation and a failure to live up to the comprehensive revolutionary method Binh advocates. Le Blanc contends (…)
, by BINH Pham
The following is dedicated to anyone and everyone has sacrificed in the name of “building the revolutionary party.”
January 24, 2012 – Submitted to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Tony Cliff’s Lenin: Building the Party published in 1975 was the first book-length political (…)
, by POST Charles
Lenin Reconsidered: Review of Lars T. Lih, Lenin (London: Reaktion Press, 2011), 240 pages, $16.95.
Few historical figures on the international revolutionary left have been the subject of as much historical myth-making as Lenin.
Born VI Ulyanov in 1870, the son of a liberal Tsarist (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
I will never forget, as the twentieth century trudged through its final decade, a once-close comrade telling me and others that developments of our time had consigned the Leninist conception of the party to “the dustbin of history.” Yet its dusty tracks may be something we will discover as we (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
At the 2011 Left Forum, held at Pace University in NYC between March 18–21 , Platypus hosted a conversation on “Lenin’s Marxism.” Panelists Chris Cutrone of Platypus, Paul Le Blanc of the International Socialist Organization, and Lars T. Lih the author of Lenin Reconsidered: “What is to be Done” (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
This was the opening presentation at a lively session of the Left Forum, in New York City, March 14-17, 2008 whose overall title was “Lenin’s Return?” – other presentations being given by Lars Lih on “Lenin and Kautsky,” by Professor Helen C. Scott on “Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg,” and by Professor (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
The Marxism of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin represents a powerful force for political freedom and genuine democracy. Yet it gave way to the murderous bureaucratic tyranny associated with Joseph Stalin. Adherents of Stalinism, perhaps wishing to see the promising beginnings of socialism in that (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
Lenin and the Revolutionary Party by, Paul Le Blanc. Introduction by Ernest Mandel. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1989. 364 pp. $60.
There is no lack of books about Lenin, but this is the first attempt at a precise historical reconstruction of his organizational thought: (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel
This text was the “Mémoire de maîtrise” for Daniel Bensaïd’s MA in Philosophy under the supervision of Henri Lefebvre in 1968. The original version of this text can be found at Le site de Daniel Bensaïd. It was translated by Patrick King for the online Viewpoint Magazine and reproduced on IVP (…)
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