state socialism
Articles about forms of statist socialism, such as social democracy, Trotskyism, Marxism Leninism, Maoism and Stalinism.
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*
Capitalism as socialism: defence of socialism in the socialist calculation of debate revisited
Paresh Chattopadhyay's contribution to the ongoing debates with state socialists on the allocation of resources in society, with specific reference to the Lange-Lerner model of socialism.
It is sixty years since Oskar Lange defended socialism in a famous debate with Mises, Hayek and Robbins, who had argued that rational allocation of productive resources was impossible in socialism, inasmuch as the absence of private ownership in the means of production would do away with the price system, the only rational basis for allocating the productive resources.
A manifesto of emancipation: Marx's "Marginal Notes to the German Worker's Party" after 125 years
Paresh Chattopadhyay's investigation on Marx's little-read "Marginal Notes to the German Worker's Party" arguing in favour of its strong emancipatory message and counter-poses it to Bolshevik-style state socialism.
Marx's "Marginal Notes" of 1875 or what he called in a letter (to Bracke, May 5, 1875), a "long scrap of paper," was a purely occasional text which its author felt compelled to compose, in order to underline what he thought to be the serious shortcomings in a workers' programme.
Marx and Keynes - Paul Mattick
The difference between a reformist and revolutionary analysis of economy.
Characteristic theses of the party
Amadeo Bordiga's essay on the role of the communist party in which he attacks political opportunism of Leninist-inspired communist parties.
(Produced at a Party meeting held in Florence, 8-9 December, 1951)
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CLR James and British Trotskyism
Interview given by CLR JAMES
to Al Richardson, Clarence Chrysostom & Anna Grimshaw
on Sunday 8th June & 16th November 1986 in South London.
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CLR James and British Trotskyism
Source: http://www.revolutionary-history.co.uk/supplem/jamesint.htm. 'Text edited by Ted Crawford, Barry Buitekant & Al Richardson, originally published as a pamphlet by Socialist Platform Ltd in 1987. It has been out of print for some time and consequently we decided to republish it on our web site.' [October 1997]
Theses On The Chinese Revolution and Cultural Revolution
Brendel discusses the Cultural Revolution and its comparison with earlier revolutions.
The Contradiction of Trotsky - Claude Lefort
The Contradiction of Trotsky
By Claude Lefort
Mao Tse Tung and the Chinese Revolution
Mao Tse Tung and the Chinese Revolution
Theses on the Chinese Revolution (1967)
From the Analysis of Bureaucracy to Workers Management - Castoriadis
From the Analysis of Bureaucracy to Workers Management
Cornelius Castoriadis
How does one characterize such a regime from a Marxist point of veiw? Sociologically speaking it was clear that it should be defined in the same way as the Russian regime. And it is here that the weakness and the absurdity of the trotskyist conception became evident.
