Lenin

Lenin’s Infantile Disorder. . .and the Third International

Devrim — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:45:19 +0000

Lenin's Terror within the Bolshevik Party - Maximov

libcom — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:54:29 +0000

Taking as point of departure the Marxian theory of centralization, of the "dictatorship of the proletariat," of the state and its role in the period of transition from Capitalism to Communism, during which the state is supposed to be not a free institution but the organ of repression and annihilation of the enemies and adversaries of the Proletariat, Lenin inescapably and logically arrived at the

Why Leninism is not Red Fascism - Appendix to Contra State and Revolution

redtwister — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:35:25 +0000

APPENDIX: Why Leninism is Not 'Red Fascism

Bolshevik Opposition to Lenin: G. T. Miasnikov and the Workers' Group - Paul Avrich

libcom — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:33:01 +0000

Bolshevik Opposition to Lenin:
G. T. Miasnikov and the Workers' Group
Paul Avrich

(RUSSIAN REVIEW, Vol. 43, 1984 pp. 1-29)

The "Renegade" Kautsky and his Disciple Lenin - Gilles Dauvé

libcom — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:30:39 +0000

Publication Details

This article originally formed an afterword to an article by Karl Kautsky "Les trois sources du Marxisme" (The three sources of Marxism) which was reprinted in French in April 1977 by editions Spartacus. (serie B No.78).

The Lenin Legend - Paul Mattick

libcom — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:55:03 +0000

The yellower and more leathery the skin of the mummified Lenin grows, and the higher the statistically determined number of visitors to the Lenin Mausoleum climbs, the less are people concerned about the real Lenin and his historical significance.

Organisational Questions of the Russian Revolution - Rosa Luxemburg

libcom — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:53:43 +0000

The translation was made by the United Workers' Party in America and first published in Britain in Pamphlet form in 1935 by the Anti- Parliamentary Communist Federation.

It was later republished by the Independent Labour Party in the 1960s and went under the title of "Leninism or Marxism?"

Leninism or Marxism - Rosa Luxemburg

libcom — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 22:54:52 +0000

Rosa Luxemburg's critique of Lenin's concept of revolutionary organisation, show the disagreements within the Marxist movements in Europe in the years preceding 1917; her comparisons with Blanquism and chillingly accurate predictions of the consequences of such organisation in a successful revolution are incredibly important to an understanding of the differing interpretations of Marx at that tim

What was the USSR? Part III

libcom — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 13:31:26 +0000

We now turn to the theories of the less well known but more interesting Communist Left, who were among the first revolutionary Marxists to distance themselves from the Russian model by deeming it state capitalist or simply capitalist.The Russian Left Communists' critique remained at the level of an immediate response to how capitalist measures were affecting the class, whereas in both the German/D

A Contribution to the Critique of Marx - John Crump

libcom — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:48:35 +0000

A number of us who went on to form Subversion were members of Social Revolution at the time. It marked our first attempts to get away from hanging on every word of Karl Marx's and to try to understand why his works spawned such a diverse variety of political thought - ranging from communism to state capitalism.