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Tag Archives: lenin
Lenin between the revolutions: “Letters on Tactics” April 1917. More on the Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Peasantry.
The text below gives further elaboration into the roots of the demand for the Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Peasantry as articulated by the Bolsheviks before both the 1905 and 1917 revolutions in Russia. This text is effectively concurrent … Continue reading
Posted in Democratic tasks of the Workers Struggle, Lenin, Revolutionary Tactics and Strategy, Soviet/Bolshevik history, The Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Peasantry, The Workers' and Farmer's Government
Tagged 1917 revolutions, dictatorship of the proletariat, lenin, socialist revolution, Tactics
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E.A. Preobrazhensky Excerpt from “Primitive Accumulation and the Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Peasantry”
Below is an excerpt from the paper on Preobrazhensky that I have been working on . E.A. Preobrazhensky, the New Economics, and the Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Peasantry. The text above links to part 1 of the article. … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis of Mature Capitalism, Autobiography of EA Preobrazhensky serialized excerpts, E.A. Preobrazhensky, Primitive accumulation, Soviet/Bolshevik history, The Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Peasantry, The Workers and Farmer, The Workers' and Farmer's Government
Tagged Bolshevik, Bolshevism, capitalism, E.A. Preobrazhensky, EA Preobrazhenksy, Grigory Yevseevich Zinoviev, lenin, Marxism, Marxist Economics, mature capitalism, political economy, Preobrazhenskii, Preobrazhensky, Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, Sixth (Prague) All Russian Congress of the RSDLP, Ufa
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Why Does the Capitalist Nation Need a Foreign Market? : Lenin 1899
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin The DEVELOPMENT of CAPITALISM in RUSSIA Written in 1899 Chapter I. The Theoretical Mistakes of the Narodnik Economists VIII. Why Does the Capitalist Nation Need a Foreign Market? “…the necessity of seeking a foreign market by no … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis of Mature Capitalism, Lenin, Political Economy
Tagged Foreign Trade, Free Trade, lenin, Matuire Capitalism
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Working-Class and Bourgeois Democracy: excerpts V.I. Lenin 1905
“The intellectualist wing devises a criterion of a good and kind bourgeoisie, worthy of concluding agreements with. The proletarian wing expects no kindness from the bourgeoisie, but supports any, even the very worst bourgeoisie, to the extent that it actually … Continue reading
Posted in Democratic tasks of the Workers Struggle, Lenin, Revolutionary Tactics and Strategy, Social Democracy, Soviet/Bolshevik history
Tagged Bolsheviks, Bolshevism, Communism, lenin, Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, Social Democracy, Socialism, Socialism and Democracy, VI Lenin
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E.A. Preobrazhensky Autobiographical Sketch. Part 4. of 5. with link to complete text.
“In Zlatoust, where I had returned to work, our Party was in the minority amongst the workers, even during the October Days. The majority supported the SRs. In October I took part in an armed demonstration by the Party under … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiography of EA Preobrazhensky serialized excerpts, E.A. Preobrazhensky, Soviet/Bolshevik history
Tagged Bolshevism, Chita, Communism, Dual Power, E.A. Preobrazhensky, Irkutsk, lenin, Marxism, monopoly capitalism, political economy, Preobrazhenskii, Preobrazhensky, Socialism, Soviet History, Urals, Zlatoust
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The Report of the Commission on the National and Colonial Questions: Second Congress of the Communist International: Report by Lenin
THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSION ON THE NATIONAL AND COLONIAL QUESTIONS1 A draft of this had been circulated by Lenin to leading Bolsheviks and international leaders of the communist movement and members of the interenational leadership of the Communist … Continue reading
Posted in "Islamism", Democratic tasks of the Workers Struggle, Kurdistan, Revolutionary Tactics and Strategy, Soviet/Bolshevik history, The Right of Nations to Self Determination
Tagged Bolshevism, lenin, The Communist International, The Right of Nations to Self Determination, V.I. Lenin
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On the Separation of Liberalism from Democracy: Lenin 1913
Lenin, below writing a year before the start of First World War. During the build up toward the war most liberal and nominally socialist organizations supported their national governments rather than call for resistance to the war and solidarity of … Continue reading
State Monopoly under Capitalism : Lenin
The brief quotation below is one of many examples which separate Lenin from the school of ‘socialism’ that sees as its mission to centralize all economic activity in the hands of the state or which, in whatever way, is dependent … Continue reading
Considerations on the eve of World War III. Lenin at the eve of World War I.
Reading Below, one must be careful not to apply cookie cutter the tactics posed by Lenin at the eve of the First World War, but otherwise to consider the circumstances of the time and to consider the actual circumstances of … Continue reading
Characteristics of Mature Capitalism
Characteristics of Mature Capitalism (Revised) Rawlinsview: June 1, 2013 In the journalistic back and forth of the “MSM” mainstream media and the dialogue familiar to the university student. One side of the conversation defends the “market” or “free market” approach, … Continue reading
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