“The American people have a revolutionary tradition which has been adopted by the best representatives of the American proletariat, who have repeatedly expressed their complete solidarity with us Bolsheviks. That tradition is the war of liberation against the British in the eighteenth century and the Civil War in the nineteenth century. In some respects, ifContinue reading “V.I. Lenin to American Workers”
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Communist Party Alliance: Bourgeois Democracy and Proletarian Democracy
A talk given to the Stalin Society on 24th July 2005 By Wilf Dixon This title embraces far more than I realised when I first thought to suggest making it the subject of a talk here at the Stalin Society. As communists we have a responsibility to explain to workers, class conscious youth and allContinue reading “Communist Party Alliance: Bourgeois Democracy and Proletarian Democracy”
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia on Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte). Born Aug. 15, 1769, in Ajaccio, Corsica; died May 5, 1821, on the island of St. Helena. French statesman and general. First consul of the French Republic (1799–1804); emperor (1804–14 and March-June 1815). Napoleon was the son of Carlo Buonaparte, a Corsican noble and lawyer of modest means. At the ageContinue reading “The Great Soviet Encyclopedia on Napoleon Bonaparte”
100th Anniversary of the February Bourgeois-democratic Revolution in Russia
Draft Theses, March 4 (17), 1917 Information reaching Zurich from Russia at this moment, March 17, 1917 [1], is so scanty, and events in our country are developing so rapidly, that any judgement of the situation must of needs be very cautious. Yesterday’s dispatches indicated that the tsar had already abdicated and that the new, Octobrist-Cadet government [2] hadContinue reading “100th Anniversary of the February Bourgeois-democratic Revolution in Russia”
Thomas Jefferson in Defense of the French Revolution
“In the struggle which was necessary, many guilty persons fell without the forms of trial, and with them some innocent. These I deplore as much as any body, and shall deplore some of them to the day of my death. But I deplore them as I should have done had they fallen in battle. ItContinue reading “Thomas Jefferson in Defense of the French Revolution”
V.I. Lenin on the Fourth Anniversary of the October Revolution
The fourth anniversary of October 25 (November 7) is approaching. The farther that great day recedes from us, the more clearly we see the significance of the proletarian revolution in Russia, and the more deeply we reflect upon the practical experience of our work as a whole. Very briefly and, of course, in very incompleteContinue reading “V.I. Lenin on the Fourth Anniversary of the October Revolution”
Maximilien Robespierre On the Justified Use of Terror
“If the spring of popular government in time of peace is virtue, the springs of popular government in revolution are at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it isContinue reading “Maximilien Robespierre On the Justified Use of Terror”
Clifford D. Conner on Jean Paul Marat
“And finally, what if Marat were to return today? What would he think of the state of our planet in the second decade of the twenty-first century? He could read in the history books that the Great French Revolution—his Revolution—is recognized as the watershed event in the making of the modern world. ‘But what didContinue reading “Clifford D. Conner on Jean Paul Marat”
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia on the American Revolution
American Revolution (in Russian, War of Independence in North America of 1775-83), the revolutionary liberation war of the 13 British colonies in North America against British colonial domination, during which an independent state was established—the United States of America. The American Revolution was prepared for by the entire preceding socioeconomic history of the colonies. TheContinue reading “The Great Soviet Encyclopedia on the American Revolution”
Maximilien Robespierre: Louis Must Die, That the Republic Can Live
“On the Trial of the King” by Maximilien Robespierre 3 December 1792 Citizens, The Assembly has been led, without realizing it, far from the real question. There is no trial to be held here. Louis is not a defendant. You are not judges. You are not, you cannot be anything but statesmen and representatives ofContinue reading “Maximilien Robespierre: Louis Must Die, That the Republic Can Live”
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia on the Civil War in the United States (1861–65) and the Reconstruction of the South
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). Civil War in the United States, 1861–65, and the Reconstruction of the South The Civil War in the United States was a natural result of the sharp worsening of antagonistic economic and political contradictions between the capitalist North and the slave-owning South. By the mid-1850’sContinue reading “The Great Soviet Encyclopedia on the Civil War in the United States (1861–65) and the Reconstruction of the South”
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia on John Adams
Adams, John Born Oct. 19, 1735; died July 4, 1826. American political leader and statesman. During the American Revolution (1775–83), Adams was a member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. He took part in the negotiations which ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris (1783) between the USA and Great Britain; moreover, heContinue reading “The Great Soviet Encyclopedia on John Adams”
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia on Thomas Paine
Paine, Thomas Born Jan. 29, 1737, in Thetford, England; died June 8, 1809, in New York (USA). Public and political figure in the USA and Great Britain. A member of the revolutionary wing of the 18th-century Enlightenment. In 1774, Paine left England for North America, carrying a letter of introduction from B. Franklin. He soonContinue reading “The Great Soviet Encyclopedia on Thomas Paine”
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia on Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson, Thomas Born Apr. 13, 1743, in Albemarle County, Va.; died July 4, 1826, at Monticello. American statesman and public figure. On his mother’s side Jefferson was descended from a family of rich Virginia landowners. He received a broad education. From 1769 to 1774 he was a deputy to the Virginia legislature. He helped organizeContinue reading “The Great Soviet Encyclopedia on Thomas Jefferson”
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia on James Madison
Madison, James Born Mar. 16, 1751, in Port Conway, Va.; died June 28, 1836, in Montpelier, Va. American statesman. Madison took part in the War for Independence (1775-83). He was the author of a proposal that formed the basis of the American Constitution (1787). In a series of articles written for the press, Madison defendedContinue reading “The Great Soviet Encyclopedia on James Madison”
The Espresso Stalinist 