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Delegation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist) Returns from Visit to Albania
Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line Anti-revisionism in Ireland Delegation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist) Returns from Visit to Albania Published: Red Patriot, newspaper of the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist), May 21, 1978.) Transcription, Editing and Markup: Paul Saba and Sam Richards Copyright: This work is in the Public Domain under the Creative Commons Common Deed. You can freely copy, distribute and display this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit the Encyclopedia of Anti- Revisionism On-Line as your source, include the url to this work, and note any of the transcribers, editors & proofreaders above. Recently a Central Committee delegation of the Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist-Leninist) returned from a visit to the People's Socialist Republic of Albania, where it was hosted by the Central Committee of the Party of Labor of Albania. The delegation saw at first hand the great achievements of the Albanian people under the leadership of the great Party of Labor of Albania led by Comrade Enver Hoxha. The Party of Labor of Albania has distinguished itself by its persistent adherence to principle and its refusal to capitulate to any form of revisionism. It opposed the revisionism of Tito right from the outset. It opposed the revisionism of the Khrushchev clique and the Soviet revisionists as soon as it appeared. Today, the Party of Labor of Albania has taken a resolute stand against the new revisionists pushing the reactionary theory of three worlds. The Party of Labor of Albania has played an outstanding role in the struggle against revisionism of all kinds and has won the deepest respect of all genuine Marxist-Leninists and progressive people throughout the world. -
1992 a Glorious Model of Proletarian Internationalism: Mao Zedong and Helping Vietnam Resist France
Digital Archive digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org International History Declassified 1992 A Glorious Model of Proletarian Internationalism: Mao Zedong and Helping Vietnam Resist France Citation: “A Glorious Model of Proletarian Internationalism: Mao Zedong and Helping Vietnam Resist France,” 1992, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, Luo Guibo, "Wuchanjieji guojizhuyide guanghui dianfan: yi Mao Zedong he Yuan-Yue Kang-Fa" ("A Glorious Model of Proletarian Internationalism: Mao Zedong and Helping Vietnam Resist France"), in Mianhuai Mao Zedong (Remembering Mao Zedong), ed. Mianhuai Mao Zedong bianxiezhu (Beijing: Zhongyang Wenxian chubanshe, 1992) 286-299. Translated by Emily M. Hill http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/120359 Summary: Luo Guibo recounts China's involvement in the First Indochina War and its assistance to the Viet Minh. Credits: This document was made possible with support from the MacArthur Foundation and the Leon Levy Foundation. Original Language: Chinese Contents: English Translation One Late in 1949, soon after the establishment of New China, Chairman Ho Chi Minh and the Central Committee of the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP) wrote to Chairman Mao and the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), asking for Chinese assistance. In January 1950, Ho made a secret visit to Beijing to request Chinaʼs assistance in Vietnamʼs struggle against France. Following Hoʼs visit, the CCP Central Committee made the decision, authorized by Chairman Mao, to send me on a secret mission to Vietnam. I was formally appointed as the Liaison Representative of the CCP Central Committee to the ICP Central Committee. Comrade [Liu] Shaoqi personally composed a letter of introduction, which stated: ʻI hereby recommend to your office Comrade Luo Guibo, who has been a provincial Party secretary and commissar, as the Liaison Representative of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. -
Moscow Takes Command: 1929–1937
Section 3 Moscow takes command: 1929–1937 The documents in this section cover the period from February 1929 until early 1937, with most of them being concentrated in the earlier years of this period in line with the general distribution of documents in the CAAL. This period marks an important shift in the history of relations between the CPA and the Comintern for two main reasons. First, because the Comintern became a direct player in the leadership struggles within the Party in 1929 (the main catalyst for which, not surprisingly, was the CPA's long-troubled approach to the issue of the ALP). And second, because it sent an organizer to Australia to `Bolshevize' the Party in 1930±31. A new generation of leaders took over from the old, owing their positions to Moscow's patronage, and thusÐuntil the Party was declared an illegal organization in 1940Ðfully compliant with the policies and wishes of Moscow. The shift in relations just outlined was part of a broader pattern in the Comintern's dealings with its sections that began after the Sixth Congress in 1928. If the `Third Period' thesis was correct, and the world class struggle was about to intensify, and the Soviet Union to come under military attack (and, indeed, the thesis was partly correct, but partly self-fulfilling), then the Comintern needed sections that could reliably implement its policies. The Sixth Congress had been quite open about it: it now required from its national sections a `strict party discipline and prompt and precise execution of the decisions of the Communist International, of its agencies and of the leading Party committees' (Degras 1960, 466). -
The Beginning of the End: the Political Theory of the Gernian Conmunist Party to the Third Period
THE BEGINNING OF THE END: THE POLITICAL THEORY OF THE GERNIAN CONMUNIST PARTY TO THE THIRD PERIOD By Lea Haro Thesis submitted for degree of PhD Centre for Socialist Theory and Movements Faculty of Law, Business, and Social Science January 2007 Table of Contents Abstract I Acknowledgments iv Methodology i. Why Bother with Marxist Theory? I ii. Outline 5 iii. Sources 9 1. Introduction - The Origins of German Communism: A 14 Historical Narrative of the German Social Democratic Party a. The Gotha Unity 15 b. From the Erjlurt Programme to Bureaucracy 23 c. From War Credits to Republic 30 II. The Theoretical Foundations of German Communism - The 39 Theories of Rosa Luxemburg a. Luxemburg as a Theorist 41 b. Rosa Luxemburg's Contribution to the Debates within the 47 SPD i. Revisionism 48 ii. Mass Strike and the Russian Revolution of 1905 58 c. Polemics with Lenin 66 i. National Question 69 ii. Imperialism 75 iii. Political Organisation 80 Summary 84 Ill. Crisis of Theory in the Comintern 87 a. Creating Uniformity in the Comintern 91 i. Role of Correct Theory 93 ii. Centralism and Strict Discipline 99 iii. Consequencesof the Policy of Uniformity for the 108 KPD b. Comintern's Policy of "Bolshevisation" 116 i. Power Struggle in the CPSU 120 ii. Comintern After Lenin 123 iii. Consequencesof Bolshevisation for KPD 130 iv. Legacy of Luxemburgism 140 c. Consequencesof a New Doctrine 143 i. Socialism in One Country 145 ii. Sixth Congress of the Comintern and the 150 Emergence of the Third Period Summary 159 IV. The Third Period and the Development of the Theory of Social 162 Fascism in Germany a. -
Features Columns Departments
VOLUME 60, NO 3 APRIL 2010 Features 8 Legends of the Fall: The Real and Imagined Sources of Our Bubble Economy by Richard W.Fulmer 13 The End of Medicine: Not With a Bang, But a Whimper by Theodore Levy 17 A Health Insurance Criminal Pleads His Case by James L. Payne 19 The Wisdom of Nien Cheng by James A. Dorn 24 Botswana: A Diamond in the Rough by Scott Beaulier 27 The Improbable Prose of Nassim Nicholas Taleb by Robert P.Murphy Page 17 31 Government Moonshine by Michael Heberling 34 How Shall We Live? by Paul Cleveland and Art Carden Columns 4 Ideas and Consequences ~ Anti-Force is the Common Denominator by Lawrence W.Reed 15 Thoughts on Freedom ~ On the Rule of Law by Donald J. Boudreaux 22 Our Economic Past ~ Private Capital Consumption: Another Downside of the Wartime “Miracle of Production” by Robert Higgs 29 Peripatetics ~ Opaque by Design by Sheldon Richman 37 Give Me a Break! ~ Let’s Take the “Crony” Out of “Crony Capitalism” by John Stossel 47 The Pursuit of Happiness ~ ObamaCare and Unions Page 6 by Charles W.Baird Departments 2 Perspective ~ Murray Rothbard by Sheldon Richman 6 Government Must Stimulate to Avoid a 1937-Style Recession? It Just Ain’t So! by Ivan Pongracic, Jr. 39 Capital Letters Book Reviews 41 The Beautiful Tree by James Tooley Reviewed by Max Borders 42 Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy by Robert L. Bradley, Jr. Reviewed by Michael Beitler 43 Herbert Hoover Page 44 by William E. Leuchtenburg Reviewed by Jim Powell 44 End the Fed by Ron Paul Reviewed by George Leef Perspective Murray Rothbard Published by n 1946 the fledgling Foundation for Economic Educa- The Foundation for Economic Education Irvington-on-Hudson, NY 10533 tion published a pamphlet titled “Roofs Phone: (914) 591-7230; E-mail: [email protected] or Ceilings: The Current Housing Problem” www.fee.org I (www.tinyurl.com/cpluwy), a brief against rent control President Lawrence W.Reed written by two unknown young economists: Milton Fried- Editor Sheldon Richman man and George Stigler. -
From Congress of Afrikan People to Revolutionary
UNITY ·STRUGGLE VOL. V NO. 6 25 CENTS POLITICA L ORGAN OF THE REVO LUTIONARY COMMUNIST LEAGU E (M-L- M) JUNE EDITION 1976 A Summation and A Beginning FROMCONGRESS OFAFRIKAN PEOPLE TO REVOLUTIONARYCOMMUNIST LEAGUE (M-L-M) Such leader s as H. Rap Brown , Maulana Karenga, Amiri Baraka, and Floyd RCL (M~L-M) is convinced that the clearest way for us to dra w the line of demar Mc Kissick were at the '67 Bla ck Power Conference. The early history of CAP's cation between genuine Marxism-Leninism and modern revisionism today is to use developmen t involved the Rebellions of 1967 and the Black Power Conference in the suffix (M-L-M) and in our practice continously uphold and defend the ba nner of Newark , N.J ., which represented the diversity of the Black Liberation Movement in Mao Tse Tung Thought, which is, "the acme of Marxism-Lenin ism in the prese nt 1967, bu t also the eclecticism that characterized BLM in the absence of a genuine era". communi st party in the U.S.A. And still today we need a revolutionary Marxist Lenini st part y, guided by the science of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse Tung Thought to lead the proletariat and oppressed nationalities to smash imperialism with Revolutionary socialist revoluti on. Party building is the central task of Marxist-Leninist and ad vanced forces in the U.S. toda y. Communist League History of CAP (M-L-M) STAGE ONE reference to such backwardness) . WORLD SITUATION Social-imperialism on the other , these . -
China Perspectives
China Perspectives 2016/1 | 2016 Photo Essay: Deng Xiaoping’s Failed Reform in 1975-1976 A Photo Essay of a Failed Reform Beida, Tiananmen Square and the Defeat of Deng Xiaoping in 1975-76 David Zweig Electronic version URL: http://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/6893 DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.6893 ISSN: 1996-4617 Publisher Centre d'étude français sur la Chine contemporaine Printed version Date of publication: 1 March 2016 Number of pages: 5-28 ISSN: 2070-3449 Electronic reference David Zweig, « A Photo Essay of a Failed Reform », China Perspectives [Online], 2016/1 | 2016, Online since 01 March 2016, connection on 28 October 2019. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/ chinaperspectives/6893 ; DOI : 10.4000/chinaperspectives.6893 © All rights reserved Photo Essay China perspectives A Photo Essay of a Failed Reform Beida, Tiananmen Square and the Defeat of Deng Xiaoping in 1975-76 DAVID ZWEIG ABSTRACT: In mid-1975, Deng Xiaoping, with Mao’s blessing, initiated reforms that targeted the negative consequences of the Cultural Revolution. To bolster Deng’s effort, Mao endowed him with penultimate authority over the Party, government, and military. However, in late October, Mao turned on Deng, and within five months, Mao and the radicals toppled Deng from power. As a foreign student at Peking University, David Zweig observed and photographed four key points in this historic struggle: (1) the initial establishment of a “big character poster” compound at Peking University; (2) emotional mourning for Zhou Enlai in Tiananmen Square following his death: (3) the intensified assault on Deng in February 1976 in the posters at Peking University; and (4) the massive demonstration of support in Tiananmen Square on 3-4 April for the end of Maoist politics. -
The Rise and Fall of Australian Maoism
The Rise and Fall of Australian Maoism By Xiaoxiao Xie Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Asian Studies School of Social Science Faculty of Arts University of Adelaide October 2016 Table of Contents Declaration II Abstract III Acknowledgments V Glossary XV Chapter One Introduction 01 Chapter Two Powell’s Flowing ‘Rivers of Blood’ and the Rise of the ‘Dark Nations’ 22 Chapter Three The ‘Wind from the East’ and the Birth of the ‘First’ Australian Maoists 66 Chapter Four ‘Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party’ 130 Chapter Five ‘Things Are Beginning to Change’: Struggles Against the turning Tide in Australia 178 Chapter Six ‘Continuous Revolution’ in the name of ‘Mango Mao’ and the ‘death’ of the last Australian Maoist 220 Conclusion 260 Bibliography 265 I Declaration I certify that this work contains no material which has been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma in my name, in any university or other tertiary institution and, to the best of my knowledge and belief, contains no material previously published or written by another person, except where due reference has been made in the text. In addition, I certify that no part of this work will, in the future, be used in a submission in my name, for any other degree or diploma in any university or other tertiary institution without the prior approval of the University of Adelaide and where applicable, any partner institution responsible for the joint-award of this degree. I give consent to this copy of my thesis, when deposited in the University Library, being made available for loan and photocopying, subject to the provisions of the Copyright Act 1968. -
On Democratic Centralism
The Marxist, XXVI 1, January–March 2010 PRAKASH KARAT On Democratic Centralism In the recent period, alongwith a number of critical discussions on the electoral set-back suffered by the CPI (M) and the Left in last Lok Sabha elections, there have been some questions raised about the practice of democratic centralism as the organizational principle of the Communist Party. Such critiques have come from persons who are intellectuals associated with the Left or the CPI (M). Since such views are being voiced by comrades and persons who are not hostile to the Party, or, consider themselves as belonging to the Left, we should address the issues raised by them and respond. This is all the more necessary since the CPI (M) considers the issue of democratic centralism to be a basic and vital one for a party of the working class. Instead of dealing with each of the critiques separately, we are categorising below the various objections and criticisms made. Though, it must be stated that it is not necessary that each of them hold all the views expressed by the others. But the common refrain is that democratic centralism should not serve as the organizational principle of the Communist Party or that it should be modified. What are the points made in these critiques? They can be summed up as follows: THE MARXIST 1. Democratic centralism is characterized as a Party organizational structure fashioned by Lenin to meet the specific conditions of Tsarist autocracy which was an authoritarian and repressive regime. Hence, its emphasis on centralization, creating a core of professional revolutionaries and secrecy. -
Refreshing China's Labor Education in the New Era: Policy Review On
Policy Review ECNU Review of Education 2020, Vol. 3(1) 169–178 Refreshing China’s Labor ª The Author(s) 2020 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions Education in the New Era: DOI: 10.1177/2096531120903878 Policy Review on Education journals.sagepub.com/home/roe Through Physical Labor Guorui Fan Institute of Schooling Reform and Development & Institute of Education Governance, East China Normal University Jiaxin Zou Department of Education, Faculty of Education, East China Normal University Abstract Purpose: This study reviews China’s labor education theories and policies to reveal the main objectives, contents, and methods of the new era, as well as analyzes future development in labor education. Design/Approach/Methods: In addition to reviewing the relevant labor education theories, this study examines China’s labor education policies using historical documents and current policy texts. Marxist and traditional approaches to labor education, as well as the historical development of education in China, provide the macroscopic backdrop of this study’s analysis of the persistence and innovativeness of China’s labor education policies. Findings: China’s labor education policy has placed labor education on the same level as that in morality, intellect, sports, and aesthetics, thereby endowing labor education with new meaning. Labor education seeks to cultivate workers with all-round physical and mental development. Becoming more varied over time, labor education now involves the cultivation of skills, tech- nological capacities, creative thinking, labor habits, and emotional development. Approaches and Corresponding author: Guorui Fan, Institute of Schooling Reform and Development & Institute of Education Governance, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China. -
Chinese Foreign Policy During the Maoist Era and Its Lessons for Today
Chinese Foreign Policy during the Maoist Era and its Lessons for Today by the MLM Revolutionary Study Group in the U.S. (January 2007) “U.S. Imperialism Get Out of Asia, Africa and Latin America!” 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction p. 3 A. The Chinese Revolution and its Internationalist Practice— p. 5 Korea and Vietnam B. The Development of Neocolonialism and the Bandung Period p. 7 C. Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party Launch the p. 11 Struggle against Soviet Revisionism D. Maoist Revolutionaries Break with Soviet Revisionism-- p. 15 India, the Philippines, Turkey, Nepal, Latin America and the U.S. E. Support for National Liberation Movements in Asia, Africa p. 21 and the Middle East in the 1960s F. Chinese Foreign Policy in the 1970s p. 27 G. The Response of the New Communist Movement in the U.S. p. 35 H. Some Lessons for Today p. 37 2 Introduction Our starting point is that the struggle for socialism and communism are part of a worldwide revolutionary process that develops in an uneven manner. Revolutions are fought and new socialist states are established country by country. These states must defend themselves; socialist countries have had to devote significant resources to defending themselves from political isolation, economic strangulation and military attack. And they must stay on the socialist road by reinvigorating the revolutionary process and unleashing the political initiative of the masses of working people in all areas of society.1 However, socialist countries cannot be seen as ends in and of themselves. They are not secure as long as imperialism and capitalism exist anywhere in the world. -
Revolutionary Marxism 2019 Special Annual English Edition
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. V. I. Lenin, What is to be done? Revolutionary Marxism 2019 Special annual English edition www.devrimcimarksizm.net [email protected] Devrimci Marksizm Üç aylık politik/teorik dergi (Yerel, süreli yayın) İngilizce yıllık özel sayı Sahibi ve Sorumlu Yazı İşleri Müdürü: Şiar Rişvanoğlu Yönetim Yeri: Adliye Arkası 3. Sokak Tüzün İşhanı No: 22/2 ADANA Baskı: Net Copy Center, Özel Baskı Çözümleri, Ömer Avni Mh., İnönü Cad./ Beytül Malcı Sok. 23/A, 34427 Beyoğlu/İstanbul Tel: +90-4440708 Yurtdışı Fiyatı: 10 Avro Kıbrıs Fiyatı: 20 TL Fiyatı: 15 TL (KDV Dahil) Cover Photo Soviet troops examining the fallen eagle – the symbol of Nazism (Berlin, 1945). Revolutionary Marxism 2019 CONTENTS In this issue 5 Fascism Sungur Savran The return of barbarism: Fascism in the 21st 15 century (1): Historical roots: classical fascism Mustafa Kemal Coşkun Is fascism a non-class ideology? 49 Turkey Kurtar Tanyılmaz Turkey’s economic crisis 55 Topics in the history of socialism Armağan Tulunay The greatest revolutionary woman in 69 history: Rosa Luxemburg Burak Gürel The road to capitalist restoration in the 85 People’s Republic of China: Maoism, bureaucracy, and mass movements Celia Hart Welcome … Trotsky 109 Sungur Savran Captive Bolshevik: Nâzım Hikmet and 119 Stalinism 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution Praxis Collective How did the Iranian revolution transmute? 145 Araz Bağban A revolution between two dictatorships 159 Network of Marxist journals Tamás Krausz The Hungarian Soviet Republic from a 179 century-long perspective Katerina Matsa October 1917 and the everyday life of the 185 Soviet masses Jock Palfreeman Marx and human rights 197 In this issue More than ten years have passed since the collapse of the US financial system and the beginning of the Third Great Depression of capitalism.