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Thirty years ago today, the Soviet Union collapsed. Twentieth-century communism should be understood in all its complexity, as revolution and regime, a spur to anti-colonialism and an alternative form of social democracy.
The following is an extract from Enzo Traverso’s new book Revolution: An (…)
“Parker makes us perceive opaque bifurcations, ideological shifts and new official narratives covering diverse form of integration within – but also still resistances to – the new capitalist world (dis)order.”
Review of Socialisms — Revolutions betrayed, mislaid and unmade, Resistance Books (…)
What will you do?
You are part of the leadership of a popular movement that has just seized power in your country. Your commitment is not to bourgeois nationalism, but to socialism. You are from a country that had been under colonial rule and then neo-colonial subordination or else from a (…)
THERE IS A growing suspicion among many people involved in movements against war, for social justice, and for an ecologically sustainable society that capitalism can only create a world of war, injustice and environmental destruction. There is widespread and growing understanding that the (…)
Socialist thought is re-emerging at the forefront of the movement for global ecological and social change. In the face of the planetary emergency, theorists have unearthed a powerful ecological critique of capitalism at the foundations of Marx’s materialist conception of history. This has led to (…)
Twenty-five years on, how has the fall of the Berlin Wall affected our analysis of Soviet Russia? How has what we have learnt changed our analysis of post-’89 Eastern Europe, Russia and the current situation in Ukraine?
The deepest discussions in the international workers’ movement about the (…)
Some people think that denouncing “productivism” can pinpoint the common ailment in a diversity of systems. But the fact of “producing too much” remains only a quantitative assessment which does not show the content of the growth in terms of use values, neither does it show the socio-economic (…)
This article appeared in the issue 9 of “The Worker” (February 2004), the CPN’s (Maoist) theoretical journal. It outlines the their basic stances on theoretical issues involving the creation of a new Socialist state in Nepal.
“The basic question of every revolution is that of state power. (…)
Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution by Helen Yaffe. Palgrave Macmillan: London, 2009. Reviewed by Diane Raby.
Helen Yaffe has produced a very important book which can only be described as essential reading for all socialists. Ernesto Che Guevara has been justly admired, indeed (…)
One of the most important developments in Cuban Marxism in recent years has been increased attention to the writings of Ernesto Che Guevara on the economics and politics of the transition to socialism.
A milestone in this process was the publication in 2006 by Ocean Press and Cuba’s Centro de (…)
We have been waiting a long time, a very long time, for this book to be published... It consists of critical notes on the Manual of Political Economy of the USSR (the Spanish language edition of 1963), notes which Che Guevara edited during his stay in Tanzania and in Prague in 1965-66, after (…)
1. Can ‘Human Nature’ Change?
Among the arguments against socialism is that it goes against human nature. “You can’t change human nature” is the frequently heard refrain. That may be true of basic human instincts such as the urge to obtain food to eat, reproduce, seek shelter, make and wear (…)
“. . .The first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of the ruling class, to win the battle of democracy.”
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER the publication of the Manifesto, Engels declared that its general principles remained as correct as ever, (…)
This article covers three organically linked debates:
1) on socialist society as such;
2) on the notion of a ‘transition to socialism’ ; and
3) on the nature of the (formerly) ‘actually existing socialist’ countries-and the transformations they are now undergoing.
Let us first sum up (…)
1. One cannot die before being born. Communism is not dead, it is not yet born. The same applies to socialism. What the Western media call “the Communist States” and the Eastern official ideology “really existing socialism” were neither. At best, one could call them “non-capitalist societies,” (…)
1. Every socio-economic formation is characterized by a particular set of relations of production. This applies not only to the great historical periods of human history, called modes of production (primitive communism, slave-owning society, the ancient Asiatic mode of production, feudalism, (…)
1. Every socio-economic formation is characterized by a particular set of relations of production. This applies not only to the great historical periods of human history, called modes of production (primitive communism, slave-owning society, the ancient Asiatic mode of production, feudalism, (…)
In this letter, Christian Rakovsky, member of the Left Opposition, discusses the roots of the process of bureacratization of the State after the victory of the Russian Revolution.
Dear Comrade Valentinov,
In your Meditations on the Masses of 8 July, in examining the problems of the (…)
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It seems to me that not enough attention is being paid to the cooperative movement in our country. Not everyone understands that now, since the time of the October revolution and quite apart from NEP (on the contrary, in this connection we must say—because of NEP), our cooperative (…)
Taking Socialism Seriously. Anatole Anton and Richard Schmitt, eds.. Lexington Books, 2012, 276 pages, $90 cloth.
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AS THE CAPITALIST crisis rages and inequality continues to soar, fewer and fewer people are satisfied with the status quo. But the powerful ideology of “There (…)
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