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• The First Five Years of the Communist International

  18 January 2020, by Robert Paris
  The First Five Years of the Communist International Leon Trotsky - The First Five Years of the Communist International - Volume I (1924) Leon Trotsky - The First Five Years of the Communist International - Volume II (1924) Read also The Communist International The “Third Period” of the Comintern’s Mistakes Main texts of the Communist International of Lenin and Trotsky Manifesto of the Third International (Communist) written by Leon (...)
  
  

• Works of Frederick Engels 1877

  13 January 2020, by Robert Paris
  Works of Frederick Engels 1877 Anti-Dühring Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science Formerly known as Herr Eugen Dühring’s Revolution in Science, Engels’ Anti-Dühring is a popular and enduring work which, as Engels wrote to Marx, was an attempt “to produce an encyclopaedic survey of our conception of the philosophical, natural-science and historical problems.” Marx and Engels first became aware of Professor Dühring with his December 1867 review of Capital, published in Ergänzungsblätter. They (...)
  
  

• Haiti 2008 : The Forgotten Occupation

  9 January 2020, by Robert Paris
  Haiti 2008 : The Forgotten Occupation Emmanuel Santos explains why an extended UN presence has only meant more suffering for the people of Haiti. MORE THAN 9,000 military and civilian personnel from the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH, by its French initials) will remain in the country until October 2009, following the UN Security Council’s unanimous vote on October 15 to extend its mandate. MINUSTAH troops have occupied Haiti since 2004 when a U.S.-backed coup (...)
  
  

• Grandizo Munis and Spanish Proletarian Revolution in 1937

  4 January 2020, by Robert Paris
  Grandizo Munis and Spanish Proletarian Revolution in 1937 The Bourgeois State in Crisis (April 1937) Although our edition was closed for this issue, the crisis of the Generalitat obliges us to comment, holding up our publication a little bit. It is public knowledge that these periodic crises of the Generalitat represent the flowering of a continuous friction between the various forces integrated into the Council. What is making impossible the normal functioning of the government is the (...)
  
  

• Plekhanov - On the Role of the Individual in History

  19 December 2019, by Robert Paris
  G.V. Plekhanov On the Role of the Individual in History (1898) I In the second half of the ’seventies the late Kablitz wrote an article entitled, The Mind and the Senses as Factors of Progress, in which, referring to Spencer, he argued that the senses played the principal role in human progress, and that the mind played only a secondary role, and quite a subordinate one at that. A certain “esteemed sociologist” [1*] replied to Kablitz, expressing amusement and surprise at a theory which (...)
  
  

• A Critical Essay on Nietzsche

  15 December 2019, by Robert Paris
  Victor Serge 1917 A Critical Essay on Nietzsche 1. A Philosopher of Violence and Authority Dead are all the gods: now do we desire the Superman to live. The State is the death of people. Companions, the creator seeketh not corpses – and not herds or believers either. Humanity’s goal can only be reached with the most elevated types. – Thus Spoke Zarathustra It is through these words that this creator became dear to us. We singled him out from among the heroes of life, legend, and dreams, (...)
  
  

• George Plekhanov - The Meaning of Hegel (1891)

  22 octobre 2019, par Robert Paris
  Introduction In 1891 the editors of Neue Zeit, theoretical magazine of the German Social Democratic Party, requested G.V. Plekhanov to write an article in connection with the 60th anniversary of Hegel’s death. Few were better qualified to deal with this subject than Plekhanov, a profound student of philosophy and the best trained Marxist theoretician of Russia at the time. Plekhanov’s philosophical writings, including his Hegel essay, were for the most part written in the heyday of his (...)
  
  

• Gracchus Babeuf 1794 - Against the Terrorist Carrier

  5 October 2019, by Robert Paris
  Gracchus Babeuf 1794 They Want to Save Carrier; They Want to Put the Revolutionary Tribunal on Trial. People beware! “The crimes of the people’s representatives and those of their agents must never go unpunished. No one has the right to claim himself more inviolable than other citizens.” Declaration of the Rights of Man, art. 51 The people of Paris, the people of the whole Republic, have issued but one cry since the opening of the trial of the accomplices of the most execrable of (...)
  
  

• Private Property and Communism

  17 September 2019, by Robert Paris
  The antithesis between lack of property and property, so long as it is not comprehended as the antithesis of labour and capital, still remains an indifferent antithesis, not grasped in its active connection, in its internal relation, not yet grasped as a contradiction. It can find expression in this first form even without the advanced development of private property (as in ancient Rome, Turkey, etc.). It does not yet appear as having been established by private property itself. But labour, (...)
  
  

• Christian Rakovsky against Stalinism

  8 September 2019, by Robert Paris
  Who 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!”] Although (...)
  
  

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