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.
In Defense of Anarchism, In Defense of Anti-Autoritarianism by Ron Tabor, July 28, 1996
A wide-ranging debate within the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation was sparked by Ron Tabor's July 1996 response to another member Chris Day's polemic "The Historical Failure of Anarchism" (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/chris-day-the-historical-failure-of-anarchism). Tabor, who had been a leader in the Revolutionary Socialist League, also wrote a critique of Lenin and the Bolsheviks "A Look at Leninism". Love and Rage did not survive the fissure and Day's faction soon left the anarchist movement.
"As barricadas devem ser removidas": fascismo stalinista na espanha (1937) - Paul Mattick
Descrição dos acontecimentos de maio de 1937 na Catalunha: a contrarrevolução stalinista e o papel que os anarquistas da CNT-FAI, que participava no governo, teve no massacre.
Stalinismo e trotskismo (1947) - Paul Mattick
"Toda a argumentação de Trotsky se apóia sobre a identificação entre capitalismo de estado e socialismo."
Marxism-Leninism: vehicle of capitalism
An article on Marxist-Leninism, written by J. Grancharoff, and published in Red and Black: An Anarchist Journal, No. 9 Spring 1979.
Essai sur "l'herméneutique" stalinienne - Slavoj Zizek
Zizek's contribution (pp. 86-144) in Armando Verdiglione 1978, Actes du Colloque de Milan, 1977: Généalogie de la politique (Colletivo semiotica e psicanalisi) La Violence, Volume 2 (pp. 375), Paris: Union Générale d'Editions 10/18 (Christian Bourgois).
Militancy: highest stage of alienation - Organisation des Jeunes Travailleurs Révolutionnaires
A critique of the role of the political militant, its misery and arrogance; written by Dominique Blanc and published by the OJTR in France, 1972.
