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The Cuban Revolution and Its Leadership: A Criticism of Peter Taaffe's Pamphlet 'Cuba: Analysis of the Revolution'

... proletarian leadership -- and this includes Marx and Lenin, not to mention any of their contemporary disciples -- who have not made ... through the revolutionary overthrow of the Castro regime. Lenin himself observed in 1921-22 that the proletarian regime he headed had ...

story - DSPAdmin - 2006-08-05 05:30 - 0 attachments

February 2000: Either A 'Socialist Revolution Or A Make-Believe Revolution: A Rejoinder to Doug Lorimer

... proletariat. Long live the socialist revolution!" -- V.I. Lenin, Speech at the Finland Station on arrival back in Russia, April 1917 ... is untrue. Lorimer actually came to the conclusion that "Lenin's theory" was superior as a guide to revolutionary action, full stop. The ...

story - DSPAdmin - 2006-08-05 08:19 - 0 attachments

Women in the workers states: Liberation betrayed

... measures enacted by the Bolsheviks under the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky demonstratively showed that the proletarian revolution meant ... fact, the Stalinist bureaucracies repudiated the view of Lenin and other leaders of the Russian Revolution that unrestricted access to ...

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Revolutionary leadership and the transition to socialism

... the workers' state. In the early Soviet republic under Lenin's leadership, all parties except the Bolsheviks ultimately arrayed ... soviets. However, no theoretical document of Marx, Engels, Lenin, or the Marxist movement in Lenin's time, advances the view that a ...

book page - DSPAdmin - 2006-08-07 05:45 - 0 attachments

Environment, Capitalism and Socialism

... The revulsion from Marxism (and, even more, from Lenin's contribution) is, of course, partly due to its identification with ... massive intellectual travesty of the work of Marx and Lenin, this explanation increasingly loses validity. Certainly the problem ...

book page - DSPAdmin - 2006-08-15 05:07 - 0 attachments

The ALP, the Nuclear Disarmament Party and the 1984 elections

... that support is an ambiguous word. How should we say it? Lenin said communists should support the Labor Party like the rope supports the ... to formulate it a little differently. We can't just quote Lenin's phrase. That helps us to understand what our stance should be, but it's ...

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Appendix: Imperialism and the Split in Socialism

By V.I. Lenin Is there any connection between imperialism and the monstrous and ... of national-liberal labour politics. Notes Lenin's footnotes [a] "Imperialism is a product of highly ...

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The Australian Political Situation and Our Perspectives After S11

... brains around the obvious fact that ¾ as Lenin noted from very far away in 1913 ¾ the ALP is a capitalist ... well, and yet the capitalist system is in no danger?" Lenin asked after the fall of the first federal Labor government. Yet today ...

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International left collaboration and socialist renewal

... we need parties, based on Marxism, learning from Lenin and the Bolsheviks, that can build mass struggles and incorporate ... Shortly after the February 1917 revolution, Lenin wrote: Russia is a peasant country, one of the most backward ...

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Was Milosevic's Serbia socialist?

... and dependence. If the choice were between a latter-day Lenin and Yeltsin, Russian communists would back the latter-day Lenin. Unfortunately, the choice was between Gorbachev and Yeltsin. Despite ...

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