state socialism
Articles about forms of statist socialism, such as social democracy, Trotskyism, Marxism Leninism, Maoism and Stalinism.
Capitalism and socialism - Maurice Brinton
Maurice Brinton of Solidarity outlines his view of traditional socialists, and libertarian socialists.
Capitalism and socialism
by Maurice Brinton
from Solidarity, V, 6 (December 1968)
Anarchists, Bolsheviks and Serge - Daniel Guerin
Anarchists, Bolsheviks, and Serge
From Daniel Guerin's _Anarchism_ (Monthly Review Press) (reprinted with permission):
Worker Unrest and the Bolsheviks' Response in 1919 - Vladimir Brovkin
Worker Unrest and the Bolsheviks' Response in 1919
Vladimir Brovkin
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The Third Revolution? Peasant resistance to the Bolshevik government
Nick Heath on the wave of rebellions and uprisings of rank-and-file Russian workers and peasants across the country in 1919-1921 against the Bolsheviks, who were consolidating their grip on power. Contrary to the Bolsheviks' claims, these rebellions were not reactionary but in fact in support of the original aims of the revolution: socialism, and workers' and peasants' self-management. Taken together they can be referred to as a Third Revolution.
The Menshevik's Political Comeback Spring 1918 Vladimir Brovkin
The Menshevik's Political Comeback: The Elections to the Provincial City Soviets In Spring 1918
Vladimir Brovkin
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Institution Building in Soviet Russia: The Case of "State Kontrol" - Thomas Remington
Institution Building in Soviet Russia: The Case of "State Kontrol"
Thomas Remington
My Disillusionment in Russia - Emma Goldman
Russian-American anarchist Emma Goldman's book on the degeneration of the Russian Revolution of 1917-1921.
Deported American anarchist Emma Goldman travels to Russia for the first time in 30 years. She provides a revealing picture on the rampant opportunism throughout the Soviet government and its steady roots throughout the bureacracy.
Anarchism and Sovietism
The Soviet System or the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Perhaps the reader thinks he has found a flaw in the above title and that the soviet system and the dictatorship of the proletariat are one and the same thing? No. They are two radically different ideas which, far from being mutually complementary, are mutually opposed.
Proletarian dictatorship and class party
Bordiga's text on the role of the workers' party in the class struggle and enforcement of proletarian power.
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Every class struggle is a political struggle (Marx).
A struggle which limits itself to obtaining a new distribution of economic gains is not yet a political struggle because it is not directed against the social structure of the production relations.
Kronstadt Izvestia
Archive of the publication of the Kronstadt rebels, who fought to protect the gains of the Russian Revolution from the new Bolshevik authoritarianism.
Izvestia of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee of Sailors, Soldiers and Workers of the town of Kronstadt - Issues 1-14, March 3-March 16, 1921.
Originally edited by Anatoli Lamanov .
Sometimes spelled: Isvestiia, Isvestia, Izvestia, Izvestiia, Isvestiya]
