/marx/ - Marxism

>>3168

Well it can easily be disproved by the fact that there existed throughout the 1970s and 80s, and up to the present day, pro-Hoxha/Albanian parties across the world. Saying that everyone who ever supported the Albanian position was ethnically Albanian is silly.

The irony is that there really were and are virtually no non-Serb/Croat/Montenegrin/Macedonian "Titoists" in the world.

>>3224

Any particular reason? It doesn't seem to have attracted any attention.

>Never ran a company

Does a historian have to travel back in time to write history?

>Never held political office

Most European countries openly persecuted Marxists at the time. Even in "liberal, democratic" Britain the police would keep a close watch on Marx's whereabouts throughout his life.

>Never oversaw any accounts

He did have to manage money in order to maintain newspapers, which brings us to...

>Never even held a job

He was an editor and journalist. He contributed nearly 500 articles to the New-York Tribune, one of the most important American newspapers at the time. Besides this he also helped in organizing the affairs of the International Workingmen's Association.

>his friend Friedrich Engles, the son of a wealthy factory owner

Besides the typo (Engels, not "Engles"), I fail to see the relevance. Engels corresponded with Marx every other day, they worked out Marxist theory and what books and articles Marx was to write. Engels was with Marx almost from the start of their careers as revolutionaries.

If Marx should be ignored because he didn't run a company, then using the same silly logic every anti-communist should zealously read whatever Engels wrote since he must have been a glorious economist by virtue of being the son of a capitalist and running a factory at one point.

I'd imagine those who can best live their lives as the gender opposite to that assigned to them at birth will be given the means to do so.

>>3180

Well, nobody wants to hear this but for the first ten or so years trans aren't going to get the hormone treatments and shit they need. It's just not a priority for any meaningful revolution. It's one thing to try and respect their identity, it's another to just throw out a legitimate economic module and appeal to people's fantasies. The fact is if the resources are not able to develop it, too bad for them. Trans-activism is wholly a first-world privilege because we can live with such comforts of "exploring our gender identity". Do you see third-world trans? No... you see third-world male prostitutes who look like really fuckable dudes to make some money.

It's basically just people can be who they want to be, fuck who they want to fuck, there's no pressure to adhere to gender normatives or form a hetero-centric family structure. But this is not acheived by waving a magic wand, in time material conditions will soften for all and all can enjoy the benefits of a liberal individualism to some degree. But as it stands now an estrogen pill in one tran's mouth takes the food right out of a starving African kid's mouth.

>>3206

>What was the reason behind this? Disagreement over the NEP?

Yes. As I said, Bukharin held that socialism should be built "at a snail's pace." He basically became the representative of the managerial stratum of society.

>Could you give examples?

From the Short Course:

>In order to complete the work begun by Comrade Stalin's article in rectifying distortions and mistakes, the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.) decided to strike another blow at them, and on March 5, 1930, published its resolution on "Measures to Combat the Distortions of the Party Line in the Collective-Farm Movement."

>This resolution made a detailed analysis of the mistakes committed, showing that they were the result of a departure from the Leninist-Stalinist line of the Party, the result of a flagrant breach of Party instructions.

>The Central Committee pointed out that these "Left" distortions were of direct service to the class enemy.

>The Central Committee gave directions that "persons who are unable or unwilling earnestly to combat distortions of the Party line must be removed from their posts and replaced." (Resolutions of the C.P.S.U.[B.], Part II, p. 663.)

>The Central Committee changed the leadership of certain regional and territorial Party organizations (Moscow Region, Transcaucasia) which had committed political mistakes and proved incapable of rectifying them.

>On April 3, 1930, Comrade Stalin's "Reply to Collective Farm Comrades" was published, in which he indicated the root cause of the mistakes in the peasant question and the major mistakes committed in the collective-farm movement, viz., an incorrect approach to the middle peasant, violation of the Leninist principle that the formation of collective farms must be voluntary, violation of the Leninist principle that allowance must be madPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>3213

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/01/18.htm

>Leninism teaches that "the final victory of Socialism, in the sense of full guarantee against the restoration of bourgeois relations, is possible only on an international scale" (c.f. resolution of the Fourteenth Conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union).

>This means that the serious assistance of the international proletariat is a force without which the problem of the final victory of Socialism in one country cannot be solved.

In addition, the construction of socialism in the USSR would place it in a better position to support working-class movements abroad as well as to defend the gains of their revolutions against the attempts of counter-revolution.

>>3215

No. In fact when Choibalsan tried to support Mongolians seeking to attach Inner Mongolia to Outer Mongolia (aka the Mongolian People's Republic) during and shortly after WWII, Stalin opposed this action.

In Xinjiang the Soviets did work with socialists who desired autonomy within China. Conservative elements, who wanted an independent Islamic state, were kept at arms length by the USSR.

The sources thread has three books I'd recommend you read, in this order:

* https://archive.org/details/lininandtherussi035179mbp (a good introduction to his theories and his leadership)

* https://archive.org/details/AHistoryOfTheU.S.S.R. (be sure to include dot at the end, otherwise the URL won't work)

* https://archive.org/details/SovietEconomicDevelopmentSince1917

If there's any specific allegations against Lenin you want debunked, let me know.

>Lenin's collectivisation resulted in the forced starvation and murder of millions of people.

Lenin didn't collectivize agriculture. Do you mean War Communism? If so, that was a policy forced on the Bolsheviks by the Civil War and the imperialist intervention and blockade. Thanks to that policy it became possible to just barely feed the cities. However, famine occurred in rural areas due to the aforementioned conflict and blockade. That wasn't the fault of the Bolsheviks, it was the fault of the counter-revolution.

>Lenin's Cheka resulted in the murder of countless values of people.

The second book I linked to addresses this: "The total figures of executions, published in 1921, were as follows. In the first half of 1918 [before the Red Terror] they were 22, in the second half some 6,300, and for the three years 1918-20 (for all Russia) 12,733. When it is remembered that in Rostov alone about 25,000 workers were shot by the Whites upon occupying the city, not to speak of many other towns, the Red terror will fall into rather more just perspective."

Furthermore, before the Red Terror was formally instituted workers were spontaneously capturing people on the street and killing them. The Red Terror actually gave direction to the executions.

>Also, is it really necsesary for me to read such obscure and dated books? Why can't I read the modern biography of Lenin by Robert Conquest?

Conquest's biography was written in 1972, which isn't much more "modern" than one written in 1947. I'd advise against reading Conquest (in the sense of "read this first before anything else") because he was a lame historian who fudged sources and was bad at numbers.

In any case, I don't see how such books are dated. More recent books can bring out new details, but whether an old book's analyses and conclusions are fundamentally sound or not does not depend on the date they were written.

You also specifically asked for "works of revisionist history," and that's what I've given you.

Yes he did. There are compilations of his writings on colonialism and on the USA:

* https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1ZP6ZurgOg-blRnUnAxR0VBSm8/view

* https://archive.org/details/MarxandEngelsontheUnitedStates

I'll also quote something I wrote elsewhere:

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The labor historian Philip S. Foner on the first Marxist group in the USA, founded in 1857:

>The Communist Club of New York was not only the first Marxist organization in the Western Hemisphere; it was the only socialist (and labor) organization that invited blacks to join as equal members. Its constitution required all members to "recognize the complete equality of all persons—no matter of whatever color or sex." The club was also in the forefront of the struggle against slavery, and its members played an important role in mobilizing the German-American workers in opposition to the "peculiar institution." ....

>By 1860, these workers had become committed to a radical antislavery position. Moreover, men like Weydemeyer, Douai, and members of the Communist Club, including Sorge, formed a significant force in the Republican Party, seeking to push the party in a more radical direction, particularly in the direction of favoring the total abolition of slavery.

>When the Civil War began with the attack on Fort Sumter, most of the German radical organizations disbanded because the majority of their members enlisted in the Union forces. The New York Communist Club did not meet for the duration of the war since most of its members had joined the Union army.

Besides mere advocacy and campaigning, Joseph Weydemeyer and Adolph Douai had a more direct influence. A conference was held at the Deutsches Haus in Chicago in May 1860. This was a meeting of German-American representatives from around the country who hoped to influence the proceedPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>3204

I'm in control of the board and it's basically a nice way to answer questions people have, so I check in a bunch of times each day. Feel free to ask away.

>>3132

More stuff scanned by myself and others:

* https://archive.org/details/SixDecadesThatChangedTheWorld

* https://archive.org/details/LaborParties18271834

* https://archive.org/details/ThePatternOfSovietPower

* https://archive.org/details/MoscowCorrespondentRalphParker

* https://archive.org/details/ShortCourseHistoryCPSUBolsheviks

* https://archive.org/details/GyengeEthiopia

* https://archive.org/details/TheMiddleEastOilAndPolicy

More books:

* https://archive.org/details/NewTheoriesOfRevolution (1970s CPGB critique of Marcuse, Debray and Fanon)

* https://archive.org/details/ArmiesAndPolitics

* https://archive.org/details/NationsAndPeoplesTheSovietExperience

* https://archive.org/details/BeforeTheNaziInvasion

* https://archive.org/details/BolshevikRevolutionFoner (impact of October Revolution in USA)

* https://archive.org/details/NonCapitalistDevelopmentAnHistoricalOutline

* https://archive.org/details/PeoplesOfTheSovietUnionLamont

* https://archive.org/details/BuildingANewSociety25thCongressCPSU

* https://archive.org/details/TheNationalLiberationMovementInTheEast (compilation of Lenin writings)

* https://archive.org/details/OutlineHistoryOfTheVietnamWorkersParty

* https://archive.org/details/TheUSSRAShortHistory

* https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfTheMPR (history of Mongolia)

* https://archive.org/details/ChinaCambodiaVietnamTriangle (on the Khmer Rouge)

* https://archive.org/details/LincolnsThirdParty (origins of the GOP)

* https://archive.org/details/HumanRightsInSovietSociety

* https://archive.org/details/ChristianityTodayInTheUSSR

Yet more books I've scanned:

* https://archive.org/details/SouthernAfricaStandsUp

* https://archive.org/details/IndustrialisationOfDevelopingCountries

* https://archive.org/details/MarxEngelsSocialistRevolution

* https://archive.org/details/JewsInAmericanHistory

* https://archive.org/details/HumanRightsUSStyle

>>2959

They're reactionary in spirit and character, but not in action. And that's what is most important.

At the end of the day we gain more tolerating and trying to reason with these third-positionist movements than we ever could hanging out with anarchists and social democrats. And I authentically mean that. Look at leftypol, it's fucking disgusting. They honetly think they're doing anyone a favor by posting shitty memes and banning one another. They have no concept of socialist theory, no motivation for actual revolution, and are little faggots who could never pick up a gun and shoot someone who deserved it. Key word being someone who deserved it. As I'm sure if a moderator told them to shoot someone they'd gladly obey and drink down their cum right afterward. As they would a strongman dictator like Putin or Donald Trump.

Now yes, these nazbols and Strasserists are also into strongman complexes. But at least their fantasy ends at state certified ones. It makes them more manageable. Leftypol is outright cooperating with moderator peodphiles and terrorists defending privatized totalitarianism. That's not a communist, that's not a socialist, that's nothing but an animal that needs to be put down.

>>2953

There were various parties which were officially recognized by the Party of Labour of Albania, the most notable probably being the CPC-ML in Canada, PCdoB in Brazil, and KPD/ML in West Germany. The 8th Congress of the PLA in 1981 had delegations from over 20 parties.

Their activities were covered in the Albanian press, occasional articles in their journals and newspapers were reprinted in said press, they attended important Albanian congresses and conferences, etc.

As for the comparison between how China treated fraternal parties and how Albania treated them, Geng Biao said to the Albanians in 1973 that: "China does not approve the creation of Marxist-Leninist parties and does not want the representatives of these parties to come to China. Their coming is a nuisance to us but we can do nothing about them, for we cannot send them away. We accept them just as we accept the representatives of bourgeois parties."

I have talked to someone who was a member of the KPD/ML. He says that the Albanians provided the party with Albanian materials, but did not send them money and encouraged them to be self-sufficient in both ideological and financial matters rather than rely on direction and subsidies from abroad.

>Also; do you have any info about a Pro-Albanian Bookstore that existed in Toronto up until the end of Socialist Albania?

Yes, that was connected to the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), it was originally called the Norman Bethune Institute and later renamed to the Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Institute.

>>2954

Oddly enough, Maison Norman Bethune is now the name of the RCP-PCR bookstore in Montreal, and they still have mass quantities of Peking editions of Marx, Engels, and Lenin.

What do you think about the CPC-ML participating in the Canadian election with 70 candidates? I think I might have read the term "Nation Wrecking" a few times in what I read but boes "Democratic Renewal" have any prevenance in Hoxhaism?

>>2955

The CPC-ML doesn't identify with Hoxha's writings anymore. Since the mid-90s it has been close to Cuba and (without actually endorsing Juche) the DPRK.

Hoxha wrote about what measures Marxist-Leninists in Western countries should take and what errors to avoid in regard to gaining a mass following: http://enver-hoxha.net/librat_pdf/english/eurocommunism/IV.pdf

>>3169

According to Hoxha, "Khrushchev told us that we had not done well in executing Dali Ndreu and Liri Gega [Ndreu's wife], who was pregnant. 'Even the Tsar did not do such a thing,' he said. We answered calmly that we did not execute people for nothing and that we shot only those who betrayed the Homeland and the people, and after it had been proved that they had committed hostile deeds and the cup had been filled. These people had been denounced by the Party for years before, they were traitors and agents of the Yugoslav revisionists; but it was only when they attempted to flee the country that our security organs caught them, and the people's court, on the basis of the facts, sent them to the punishment they deserved. As to the claim that Liri Gega was pregnant, this is a slanderous lie." (Selected Works Vol. III, p. 33.)

To this day there is no evidence that she was pregnant except Khrushchev's word.

>>3163

There have been many student radicals from the 1960s and 70s who have transformed into bourgeois politicians and academics. As far as French Jews go, Cohn-Bendit went from being an ultra-leftist who ranted against "Stalinism" to being a social-democrat (while, of course, still perfectly willing to rant against "Stalinism" if he ever has to do so.)

I don't think being a Jew has much to do with becoming a neo-con. If I had to guess why a bunch of Jews went from "left" to neo-con right, belief in a common Jewish identity and establishing a tie between that identity and the continued existence of the State of Israel probably accounts for the move into a specifically neo-conservative position, helped along by the fact that Jews are less likely to be socially conservative in the "WASP" sense and thus less interested in paleoconservative types.

>>3165

>What do you think about "On the Jewish Question" by Karl Marx ? and about the Jewish Question in general ?

Marx's pamphlet was written as a polemic against Bruno Bauer, an anti-Semite. Marx discussed the situation Jews were driven into by European society through centuries of persecution and restrictions on what occupations they were allowed to engage in. He noted that with the abolition of capitalism the Jew would be liberated from Judaism and from that peculiar status as a "huckster" and other negative roles anti-Semitism shoehorned them into.

>Also what are your thoughts on the Migrants Crisis and Massive Immigration in general ?

I think that the Western powers are the cause of the crisis and are hypocritically trying to deflect blame for it. Refugees ought to be supported against scapegoating and xenophobia, while at the same time attempts by the capitalist governments to cut social programs (citing "lazy refugees" or whatever) or pose as "defenders of national culture" should be opposed.

>I know it's off-topic but the board is kind of dead.

I don't mind. Better to be kinda dead than full of lameness.