Leninism
Lenin as philosopher
Pannekoek's classic work analyses Lenin's philosophical views as being determined by the historical circumstances they emerged from; the battle against religious dominance in 19th century Russia. This made Lenin's simplistic materialism quite different from Marx's. Pannekoek illustrates that dualistic conceptions of a vanguard party as a 'consciousness' leading the working class 'body' are rooted in the philosophical underpinnings of Lenin's bourgeois materialism.
At the source of The Critique of Political Economy - Paresh Chattopadhyay
Paresh Chattopadhyay's review of a collection of Marx and Engels' notebooks.
"Karl Marx - Exzerpte und Notizen: Sommer 1844 bis Anfang 1847" in Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels "” Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) vierte Abteilung. Band 3. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1998, pp. 866.
Reviewed by Paresh Chattopadhyay*
Suicide for Socialism? - Brinton on the Jonestown massacre, 1978
Maurice Brinton's analysis of the bizarre mass suicide of a socialist cult led by American Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana, which discusses the dynamics of political sects in general.
'We're gonna die for the revolution. We're gonna die to expose this racist and fascist society.
Militancy - Highest stage of Alienation
A critique of the role of the political militant, it's misery and arrogance.
Since the occupation movement of May '68, we have seen a whole collection of small organisations which claim to follow Trotskyism, Maoism or anarchism, developing to the left of the Communist Party and the C.G.T [1].
Review: Carry on Recruiting
'The politics and practice of the SWP negate its claim to be revolutionary'. Have Trotwatch nailed the Leninists?
Why the SWP dumped the 'downturn' in a 'dash for growth'
Trotwatch. £2.95 AK Press. ISBN 1 873176 02 3.
"Many people find a critique of Bolshevism boring. Unfortunately even one's uninteresting enemies can be powerful."- Call It Sleep.
Lenin In England
Lenin In England
Mario Tronti
Despite its title, this article is not about' England as such. It marks, in 1964, one of the early points in the continuity of political theory that reaches through our book to the most recent works of Toni Negri (Domination & Sabotage); it also marks an early point of the continuity of the political practice of the working class, in the sense that Tronti's affirmation that "a new era in the class struggle is beginning" must be closely related to the renewed experience of class autonomy expressed in the events of Piazza Statuto in 1962 (see the final section of this book).
A Party of Autonomy? - Steve Wright
Steve Wright's analysis of the Leninist tendencies remaining in Italian Operaismo and "explore, in a critical manner, the debate over the party-form played out within and around the groups of Autonomia Operaia during the late seventies".
In loving memory of Ivan Conabere-'Uno di noi'
Autonomia operaia is a party, from the phenomenal, organisational and structural point of view-Judge Pietro Calogero (La Repubblica 1979: 120).
If only!-Mario Dalmaviva, Luciano Ferrari Bravo, Toni Negri, Oreste Scalzone, Emilio Vesce, Lauso Zagato (1979: 23).
