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 (...)
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Stalinism and Fascism
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C L R James, World Revolution 1917-1936 The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
30 January 2010Chapter 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 (...) -
STALIN KILLS THE 1923 REVOLUTION
19 décembre 2021, par Robert ParisSTALIN KILLS THE 1923 REVOLUTION
THE GERMAN REVOLUTION WAS FOR YEARS THE MOST urgent and important for the Communist International. In the war Germany lost over one and a quarter million men killed and four and a quarter million wounded. The allied bourgeoisie blockaded Germany for nine months after the war so that a million children died ; (meanwhile they called on God and man to witness how the wicked Bolsheviks were shooting thousands of good Russian bourgeois). Germany lost 100,000 (...) -
A FOURTH INTERNATIONAL, THE ONLY HOPE
9 January, by Robert ParisC.L.R. James
A FOURTH INTERNATIONAL, THE ONLY HOPE
THERE IS A LOGIC IN HISTORY AND DESPITE ALL THE rich and strange episodes of historical evolution there is a consistent line which can be followed. We can see the future of the Third International in the role it plays in the Spanish revolution. THE SPANISH REVOLUTION
When Franco launched his attack on the Popular Front Government, that hybrid showed exactly what is to be expected from these political combinations of bourgeoisie and (...)