TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1. THE VIEWS OF LENIN: THE TERMINOLOGY : “BLACK NATION” i) Lenin’s First Citation: “Draft Theses On the National -Colonial Question” ii) Lenin’s Second Citation: “New Data on the Laws Governing the Development of Capitalism in Agriculture” iii) Lenin’s Third Citation : “Statistics and Sociology” iv) Other Discussions by Lenin BearingContinue reading “Alliance Marxist-Leninist: The Theory of the ‘Black Nation’ in the U.S.A.”
Category Archives: Polemics & Refutations
Claims and Facts About the Right of Nations to Self-determination
Published in Evrensel, 23 October 2017. Reprinted with permission. Claims and facts about the right of nations to self-determination, following the independence referendums in Iraqi Kurdistan and Catalonia. Arif KOŞAR Following the independence referendums in Iraqi Kurdistan and Catalonia, the right of nations to self-determination has become a popular debate. Here are some of the claimsContinue reading “Claims and Facts About the Right of Nations to Self-determination”
The Soviet Industrial Revolution: the Results of the First and Second Five-Year-Plans
The following are economic statistics from the Soviet Union’s First and Second Five-Year Plans with my commentary giving some context and helping you better interpret the numbers. The four periods depicted in these statistics are the following: 1) The last Czarist census of 1913. This represents the height of the economic development of the Russian Empire. The economyContinue reading “The Soviet Industrial Revolution: the Results of the First and Second Five-Year-Plans”
Bill Bland: The Soviet Campaign Against Cosmopolitanism: 1947-1952
A paper presented to the Stalin Society, London, on 1 November 1998 by Bill Bland. First Published on the web February 2000 by ALLIANCE ML (NORTH AMERICA) INTRODUCTION IN 1946-1952 THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION CARRIED ON AN INTENSIVE CAMPAIGN AGAINST COSMOPOLITANISM. “The word ‘cosmopolitan’ is derived from two Greek words, ‘kosmos’ meaningContinue reading “Bill Bland: The Soviet Campaign Against Cosmopolitanism: 1947-1952”
Russia is an Imperialist Country
Original article on massproletariat.info The present world situation is defined by a system of capitalist-imperialist relations, and the principal contradiction on the global scale is between imperialist states and oppressed peoples. In Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism Lenin put forward a Marxist analysis of the nature of capitalist-imperialism, and it is to this document that we shallContinue reading “Russia is an Imperialist Country”
Grover Furr: New Light On Old Stories About Marshal Tukhachevskii: Some Documents Reconsidered
Grover Furr Montclair State University Originally published in RUSSIAN HISTORY/HISTOIRE RUSSE, 13, Nos 2-3 (Summer-Fall 1986), 293-308. The innocence of Marshal Tukhachevskii and the other military commanders condemned with him in 1937 has become firmly accepted by both Soviet and Western historians. [1] The current scholarly consensus also includes the view that “the nazi secretContinue reading “Grover Furr: New Light On Old Stories About Marshal Tukhachevskii: Some Documents Reconsidered”
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 Berlin Wall: Another Cold War Myth
by WILLIAM BLUM November 9 will mark the 25th anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. The extravagant hoopla began months ago in Berlin. In the United States we can expect all the Cold War clichés about The Free World vs. Communist Tyranny to be trotted out and the simple tale of how the wallContinue reading “The Berlin Wall: Another Cold War Myth”
Soviet Democracy and Bourgeois Democracy
This pamphlet is a translation of an essay published in the symposium Soviet Socialist Society prepared by the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. and published by the Gospolitizdat, Moscow 1949. The question of democracy, of how it is to be correctly understood, of the fundamental distinction between Soviet socialistContinue reading “Soviet Democracy and Bourgeois Democracy”
Georgi Dimitrov to Stalin on the Question of “Social-Fascism”
Dimitrov to Stalin, 1 July 1934. Original in Russian. Type-written, with handwritten comments by Stalin. 1.7.34 From C. Dimitrov Dear Com. Stalin! The enclosed draft outline of [my] speech shows how I see the essence of the speech regarding the 2nd point of the agenda of the congress. In addition, I would like to raiseContinue reading “Georgi Dimitrov to Stalin on the Question of “Social-Fascism””
J.V. Stalin: The Prospects of the Revolution in China
Speech Delivered in the Chinese Commission of the E.C.C.I. November 30, 1926 Comrades, before passing to the subject under discussion, I think it necessary to say that I am not in possession of the exhaustive material on the Chinese question necessary for giving a full picture of the revolution in China. Hence I am compelledContinue reading “J.V. Stalin: The Prospects of the Revolution in China”
Ludo Martens: Trotsky’s role on the eve of the Second World War
by Ludo Martens During the thirties, Trotsky literally became the world’s expert on anti-Communism. Even today, right-wing ideologues peruse Trotsky’s works in search of weapons against the Soviet Union under Stalin. In 1982, when Reagan was again preaching the anti-Communist crusade, Henri Bernard, Professor Emeritus at the Royal Military School of Belgium, published a book to spread the following urgentContinue reading “Ludo Martens: Trotsky’s role on the eve of the Second World War”
Revisionism in Russia: Trotsky Against the Bolsheviks – Part Two: 1914-1917
This is the second part of a study of the development of revisionism in Russia, and covers the period from the outbreak of World War I in 1914 to the victory of the socialist revolution in November 1917. Read part one here. The First Imperialist War In August 1914, the First Imperialist War began. AlmostContinue reading “Revisionism in Russia: Trotsky Against the Bolsheviks – Part Two: 1914-1917”
Grover Furr: The Ukrainian Famine: Only Evidence Can Disclose the Truth
No detective can solve a crime without carefully and objectively studying the evidence. Likewise, no one can know what actually occurred in history without studying, in an objective manner, the relevant primary sources – the evidence. I have spent decades in studying the primary sources concerning many specific events of the Stalin period. Mark TaugerContinue reading “Grover Furr: The Ukrainian Famine: Only Evidence Can Disclose the Truth”
Communist League: On Terrorism
REPRINT FROM COMBAT – Journal of the Communist League – March 1975. TERRORISM OR REVOLUTION? The last decade has witnessed the emergence of a number of terrorist groups in various countries, together with the adoption of terrorist tactics by a number of national liberation groups. Britain for example, has experienced the bombing campaigns of theContinue reading “Communist League: On Terrorism”
The Espresso Stalinist 