The Dutch Trade Union Congress FNV, with over one million members, is included in a list of so called "terrorist" organizations of those in Turkey who, in the ...
Ante Ciliga<br>The correspondence between Trotsky and Wendelin Thomas (one of the leaders of the revolt in the German Navy in 1918, and a member of the ...
Hugo Chavez looks pretty comfortable rubbing shoulders with all sorts of reactionary politicians. I wouldn't trust him with a barge pole. At the same time we ...
This incident raises a fundamental issue. To what extent does the end justify the means? In the Kronstadt case, was it worth cutting down on democratic rights...
"Also Trotsky probably had more than a streak of impatient arrogance about him (eg in "My Life" he sings his own praises quite a bit)."<br><br>Not important,...
Welcome back. Well, many of the best leaders are like that. But Trotsky was also honest, in the sense that everything he wrote had to be built on basic Marxist...
Hmm it's interesting that readers claim that the violent supression of workers in Kronstadt, workers asking for the things which Lenin himself promised prior ...
Lenin and Trotsky called for discipline. As it happened, they got enough support to put down the uprising. Members of the workers opposition sided with the ...
The government learned no lesson. The USSR still became state capitalist because it was not a dictatorship of the proletariat, but a dictatorship of the party....
"This result is because Lenin and Trotsky focused on the modernization of production by the state above the aspirations of the working class for a better ...
First off, I am not an anarchist. Believe it or not, but critics of Leninism (or Marxism which is what they would want you to believe) do not all fall into the...
Whatever you call yourself, I think you replicate the errors of anarchism in making this sweeping generalisation and dismissal of Leninism. The argument that ...
Why are you bringing up the flaws of anarchism in a discussion of leninism other then to cloud the issue? I have been critizing leninism from a marxist stand...
I don't find it extreme unless you are comparing it to Lenin in 1917... Lenin and Trotsky's views changed dramatically from 1917 onward. Lenin even said that...
Does anyone know what happened to the Youth For International Socialism or In Defence of Marxism websites? I know they have gone down before but this time when...
Well, your argument sounds exactly like the anarchist one. Insisting that any theory of organisation under any circumstances will inevitibly lead to anything...
A new yahoo group that deals with the problems of "reading the classics". How can we still use books over 100 years old? <br>Can we use Lenin's Imperialism to ...
Lenin called the economic situation as being in between capitalism and socialim, with socialism to be attained soon and then the move towards communism to...
I just tried the YFIS site again and this time a message came up saying they were the target of someone who wanted the site down. Any comments comrades?...
No no, I am not against organization one bit... but I think that traditional Leninists do not focus enough on worker and delegete type organizations. ...
"I think that traditional Leninists do not focus enough on worker and delegete type organizations".<br><br>They do! What does "all power to the soviets" mean? ...
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