G.V. Plekhanov
The Materialist Conception of History
(1891)
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We must confess that it was with no little prejudice that we took up the book of this Roman professor. We had been rather frightened by certain works of some of his compatriots – A. Loria, for example (see, in particular, La teoria economica della constituzione politica). But a perusal of the very first pages was enough to convince us that we had been mistaken, and that Achille Loria is one thing and Antonio Labriola (...)
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The Materialist Conception of History
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Religion : its social roots and role
2 June 2008, by Robert ParisDefinitions of religion, like definitions of the state, generally tell us more about the social and political allegiances of the author of a given definition than about the true nature of religion or the state. Loyalties – that is, class interests and class outlook – are transferred into definitions; especially is this true of religion. Typical of such definitions is a theologian’s formula for Christianity as ‘the synthesis of the highest aspirations of man’. The fact that definitions are (...)
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Communism and stalinism in USA
27 September 2008, by Robert ParisThe End of the Comintern And The Prospects of Labor Internationalism James P. Cannon
Comrade Chairman, Comrades:
The formal dissolution of the Communist International is undoubtedly an event of great historical significance, even though everybody understands that it is simply the formal certification of a fact that was long since accomplished. Some of the bourgeois commentators and politicians may exaggerate a bit when they speak of the dissolution of the Communist International as the (...) -
The betrayed revolution, Leon Trotsky
12 September 2008INTRODUCTION: The Purpose of the Present Work
I. – WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED
The Principal Indices of Industrial Growth
Comparative Estimates of These Achievements
Production per Capita of the Population
II. – ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE ZIGZAGS OF THE LEADERSHIP
“Military Communism”, “The New Economic Policy” (NEP) and the Course Toward the Kulak
A Sharp Turn: “The Five-Year Plan in Four Years” and “Complete Collectivization”
III. – SOCIALISM AND (...) -
Le socialisme utopique de Fourier, la sexualité et le mariage bourgeois
17 March 2015, by Robert ParisLire "Le nouveau monde amoureux" de Charles Fourier
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Qui était Fourier
The Passionate Series by Charles Fourier
The series of groups is the method adopted by God in the organisation of the kingdoms of nature and of all created things. The naturalists, in their theories and classifications, have unanimously accepted this system of organisation; they could not have departed from it without coming into conflict with nature and falling into confusion.[28]
If human (...) -
The growth of socialism, Eugen Debs
23 August 2008The growth of socialism
Eugen Debs
Not many of those schooled in old-party politics have any adequate conception of the true import of the labor movement. They read of it in the papers, discuss it in their clubs, criticise labor unions, condemn walking delegates, and finally conclude that organized labor is a thing to be tolerated so long, only, as it keeps within “proper bounds,” but to be put down summarily the moment its members, like the remnants of Indian tribes on the western (...) -
Christian Rakovsky against Stalinism
8 September 2019Who Was Christian Rakovsky
Christian Rakovsky against Stalinism
Speech to the Fifteenth Party Congress
(December 1927)
Comrades! The sphere of international relations is that sphere which necessitates the greatest unity in the party. Our foreign enemy is the most dangerous of all enemies, both for our party and the proletarian dictatorship. [Voices: “That is way you are breaking up the party. You should have known this before! You should have remembered that on November 7th!”] (...) -
Reform Or Revolution?
17 July 2008, by Robert ParisReform Or Revolution?
By Daniel DeLeon
An address delivered at
Wells’ Memorial Hall, Boston, Mass.,
January 26, 1896
Mr. Chairman and Workingmen of Boston:
I have got into the habit of putting two and two together, and drawing my conclusions. When I was invited to come to Boston, the invitation reached me at about the same time as an official information that a reorganization of the party was contemplated in the city of Boston. I put the two together and I drew the conclusion (...) -
Le front populaire de 1936 en France était le pire ennemi de la grève ouvrière de masse contre la misère, le fascisme et la guerre
4 mars, par Robert ParisLe front populaire de 1936 en France était le pire ennemi de la grève ouvrière de masse contre la misère, le fascisme et la guerre
Ou les lendemains qui déchantent...
La popularité du front « populaire » est due à un double contresens : il est pris comme un gouvernement qui appuyait la révolte ouvrière contre le fascisme et les capitalistes. Il est tout le contraire. Il n’a pas levé le petit doigt ni contre les uns ni contre les autres. Deuxième contresens : la vague de grève n’est (...) -
The revolution betrayed
3 May 2008The Purpose of the Present Work
The bourgeois world at first tried to pretend not to notice the economic successes of the soviet regime – the experimental proof, that is, of the practicability of socialist methods. The learned economists of capital still often try to maintain a deeply cogitative silence about the unprecedented tempo of Russia’s industrial development, or confine themselves to remarks about an extreme “exploitation of the peasantry”. They are missing a wonderful (...)
Brèves
- A lire avant la fête de l’Huma : quand le journal « L’Humanité » était révolutionnaire, il était trotskyste !!!
- Alfred Rosmer dans Moscou sous Lénine
- La grève du Havre (1922)
- Le 1er Congrès de la Fédération des syndicats (Lyon, 1886), future CGT, vu par Léon Blum
- Le prolétariat, la force d’avenir de la société humaine
- Les gilets jaunes s’étendent... à la planète
- Les révolutions du 19ème siècle
- Mélenchon compte rendre quoi et à qui ?
- Programme du Comité de Grève, à l’initiative de l’Assemblée des Gilets Jaunes de Poitiers
- Qui était François Mitterrand, le seul président "socialiste" français de la cinquième république