Stalinisme

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• The first open declaration of opposition by old Bolshevik leaders to Stalinism in 1923
  27 December 2021

  The Platform of the 46
  A week after Leon Trotsky had sent his letter to the Central Committee 46 prominent Bolsheviks, some of whom occupied leading posts in economic management, presented their own criticism of the economic and inner-Party policy of the Party leadership of Kamenev, Zinoviev, Stalin, Rykov and Tomsky. This statement of opposition which became known as ‘The Platform of the 46’ was submitted to the Politburo on October 15, 1923, after being circulated among a number of (...)

• C L R James, World Revolution 1917-1936 The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
  7 March 2009

  Chapter 1 MARXISM
  WHAT THEN IS SOCIALISM ACCORDING TO THE PROPHETS? To answer this question we have to look back and not forward, at the origin of Socialism in the scientific sense, placing it in the particular phase of social evolution to which it belongs. For though it is to be attained by the will and energy of men, it will not be attained how and when men please. It is neither pious hope nor moral aspiration but a new form of society which will arise for one reason and one only, the (...)

• The betrayed revolution, Leon Trotsky
  12 September 2008

  INTRODUCTION: 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 (...)

• Stalinism and Fascism
  21 December 2021

  C.L.R. James
  “AFTER HITLER, OUR TURN”
  THE INTERNATIONAL PURGED
  AS THE STALINIST REGIME DESTROYED THE BOLSHEVIK party by slander and organisational terror (not against class-enemies, it must always be remembered, which all history proves to be necessary, inevitable and not in the least confined to Communists, but against honest, intelligent and devoted members of its own ranks), so it automatically transferred these methods to the International. [1]
  With the final expulsion of the (...)

• STALIN RUINS THE CHINESE REVOLUTION
  19 December 2021

  C.L.LR. James
  STALIN RUINS THE CHINESE REVOLUTION
  EVEN WHILE THE STALINISTS, BY FALSIFICATION AND PHYSICAL repression, were destroying the propagandists of international Socialism, the world revolution which had seemed so remote in October, 1924, stirred itself, and even while the new theory was being made law presented the International with one of its greatest opportunities. We have to pass over how the Stalinists forced the Communist Party of Poland to support Pilsudski in the coup (...)

• Three uprisings in South Korea
  10 July 2022, by Robert Paris

  Three uprisings in South Korea INTRODUCTION
  Let us first recall that it was British and American imperialism that demanded that Stalin militarily occupy northern Asia and notably northern Korea while they occupied the south. Let us also remember that this had no military purpose because the war was then won in Japan crushed under the bombs and which only asked to capitulate. What motivated these imperialisms was the fear of a social revolution. In Korea, struck by misery and feudalism, (...)

• The revolution betrayed
  3 May 2008

  The 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 (...)

• Quand le Parti Communiste Américain, optant sous l’égide de Staline pour l’alliance avec l’impérialisme américain, lâchait le combat des noirs comme il lâchait le combat des travailleurs
  26 septembre 2008, par Robert Paris

  Une alliance sur le dos des peuples travailleurs et notamment des noirs américainsRichard Wright rendit sa carte du PC américain lorsque les militants du PC refusèrent de soutenir la marche du militant des droits civiques Philipp A. Randolph en 1942 sous le prétexte que les USA étaient des alliés de l’URSS.
  Lire ici "American Hunger" de Richard Wright
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  Biographie de Richard Wright
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• Que proposaient le réformisme, le stalinisme et le trotskysme face à la montée fasciste en Allemagne ?
  18 novembre 2009, par Robert Paris

  " L’arrivée au pouvoir des " nationaux-socialistes " signifierait avant tout l’extermination de l’élite du prolétariat allemand, la destruction de ses organisations, et la perte de sa confiance en ses propres forces et en son avenir. Comme les contradictions et les antagonismes ont atteint en Allemagne un degré extrême de gravité, le travail infernal du fascisme italien apparaîtra comme une expérience bien pâle et presque humanitaire en comparaison des crimes dont le national-socialisme (...)

• Communism and stalinism in USA
  27 September 2008, by Robert Paris

  The 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 (...)