communism
Primitive communism versus integral communism - Antagonism
Article reflecting on primitive communism, and discussing what a future communist society must comprise, if capitalism is to be permanently displaced.
Many different, competing, radical groups and tendencies, identify different incompatible societies as 'communist'. I don't want here to identify any 'need' or 'reasons' for forming a communist society. This article is merely an attempt to describe what communism must be.
Communism before the revolution - Paul Petard
Paul Petard discusses the unobtainability of a future human community, unless the current struggle to meet needs and desires becomes the primary focus.
.....If we accept that for the time being struggle is just ongoing, that we are “stuck” in a weak and fragmented class struggle, that there is no immediate possibility of the successful complete overthrow of capitalism in a central political physical action then in a sense struggles and revolts become liberated.
The Future Society - Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst outlines how socialism and communism will only come from a total break with capitalism.
The words Socialism and Communism have the same meaning. They indicate a condition of society in which the wealth of the community: the land and the means of production, distribution and transport are held in common, production being for use and not for profit.
Open letter to Lenin - Sylvia Pankhurst
Open letter from Sylvia Pankhurst and the Workers' Dreadnaught to Lenin, accusing the Third International parties of abandoning communism.
To Lenin, as representing the Russian Communist Party and the Russian Soviet Government.
Bordigism - Adam Buick
Article by Adam Buick looking at the later writings of Amadeo Bordiga on the content of communism.
In 1975 a pamphlet called Un Monde sans argent: le communisme (A World Without Money: Communism) was published in France. The authors argued for the immediate establishment of a moneyless, communist society:
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Autonomy - Gilles Dauve (2008)
In a text written for a "Vår Makt" seminar - held in Malmö, Sweden on 1-2 November 2008 - Dauve surveys the various theories of democracy and their limits.
Source; the Vår Makt site - http://www.motarbetaren.se/vm08/texter.html
1940-1989: The Cold War
Noam Chomsky explains the nature of the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union before its collapse in 1989.
How the Cold War worked
Principles of Communism
- 1 - What is Communism?
Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.
- 2 - What is the proletariat?
