Notes on Soviet Attitudes to Homosexuality
Submitted by Reddebrek on Apr 3 2018 18:15
Fragments of information concerning the attitudes of the Bolshevik government in its early years to homosexuality.
Everything you ever wanted to know about tankies, but were afraid to ask
Submitted by Mike Harman on Mar 8 2018 21:45
One of the stranger developments of the past five years has been the resurrection of the word tankie. It's time for an explainer.
North Korea: development of national capitalism
HERE IS THE WHOLE TEXT (not yet proofread).
All the quotations (Karl Marx, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, Mao Zedong, Guy Sabatier...) are taken from "official" translations published on internet, except the second part of Sabatier's quote in note number 10 (still in Spanish).
After the Death of Stalin: The First Revolt- The Plovdiv Tobacco Workers’ Strike, May 1953
Submitted by Battlescarred on Jan 4 2018 20:30
A short history of the first revolt of East European workers after the death of Stalin, the Plovdiv Tobacco Wokers Strike of May 1953.
Chomsky and Pol Pot's genocidal regime in Cambodia
Submitted by hedgehog on Oct 22 2017 19:49
Chomsky has repeatedly been criticised as an apologist for the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia in the 1970s. Understandably, a common reaction on the left is to dismiss such criticism as nothing more than a right-wing smear. But it is often forgotten that one of Chomsky's earliest critics on this issue was himself a leftist, the Marxist academic, Steven Lukes.
For anyone who wants to get a handle on this complex controversy, here's a pdf of the relevant chapter from Chomsky's 1979 book, 'After the Cataclysm', followed by the subsequent debate in the 'Times Higher Education Supplement':
Rojava: the fraud of a non-existent social revolution
Text from Mouvement Communiste and Kolektivně proti Kapitălu in response to recent myths propagated about the Rojava "revolution", with a detailed background about inter-imperial rivalries, the so-called "Kurdish question", national questions in general... To many leftists and anarchists, Rojava is a paradise on earth. We say: down with paradise!
Back to banality - G.M. Tamás
Article from G.M. Tamás on the continuities/differences between the 'actually-existing socialism' of the past and present-day reactionism in Eastern Europe.
Communism has not yet begun - Claude Bitot
First published in 1995 in France: Section One, “The Historical Balance Sheet” includes chapters on: communist movements throughout history; Marx and Engels and communism; “Real” vs. “Formal” domination of capital and the importance of this distinction for understanding the failure of the old workers movements (capitalism was not “obsolete” prior to 1945). Section Two, “Perspectives”, contains an extensive discussion of: the economic roots of capitalism’s current crisis (the “final stage of its cycle”); the communist revolution; and socialism.
O biurokracji sowieckiej - Andrzej Stawar
Analiza biurokracji sowieckiej autorstwa Andrzeja Stawara. Przewaga biurokracji w Związku Radzieckim nie była czymś przypadkowym: określiły ją niemożność bezpośredniego podniesienia zadań politycznych i gospodarczych przez klasę robotniczą, postawionych przez zwycięski przewrót w październiku 1917 r. Rozproszenie gospodarcze, olbrzymia przewaga ludności chłopskiej, skutki zarówno niszczące, jak i „konstruktywne” (rozbudowa aparatu państwowego), wojny domowej – te momenty w znacznej mierze określiły późniejszy rozwój.
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