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Guevaraism: the Theory of the Guerrilla Elite

An analysis of the theories of Regis Debray as propounded in “Revolution in the Revolution?”, and their relevance to the revolutionary struggle in Latin America. By Cmde MS on behalf of MLOB. FIRST PUBLISHED IN Red Vanguard Volume 1, 1968 THE THEORY OF THE GUERRILLA ELITE Table of Contents INTRODUCTION BOURGEOIS OUTLOOK AND SPONTANEITY CLASS ANALYSIS IN SOUTH AMERICA: THE “THIRD” WAY THE ROLE OF THE INDIVIDUAL – THE MAXIMUM LEADER -FIDELISM THE “FOCO” AS SUBSTITUTE FOR THE PROLETARIAN PARTY PEOPLE’S WAR WITHOUT THE PEOPLE “LEFT” AND RIGHT IN LATIN AMERICA ASSESSMENT OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION Introduction Regis Debray, a…

Ernesto “Che” Guevara: A Rebel Against Soviet Political Economy

We reproduce this article, despite our disagreements with its conclusions about “Cuban socialism,” for its insights and research into Che Guevara’s economic thought. – ML Currents Editorial Board. by Helen Yaffe In January 1962 Guevara told colleagues in Cuba’s Ministry of Industries (MININD): “In no way am I saying that financial autonomy of the enterprise with moral incentives, as it is established in the socialist countries, is a formula which will impede progress to socialism.” [1] He was referring to the economic management system applied in the Soviet bloc, known in Cuba as the Auto-Financing System (AFS). By 1966, in his…

Che Guevara and the Political Economy of Socialism

by Rafael Martinez Che Guevara is widely known to the world as the romantic-idealist revolutionary. The economic thought of Che Guevara has not really been widely publicised as the Argentinean born revolutionary is commonly known for his works on the guerrilla warfare, whose underlying idealist and voluntarist approaches to the struggle of the oppressed masses against capitalism and imperialism have been exposed and rejected altogether by the Marxist-Leninists. It is most appropriate, however, to pay special attention to Guevara’s economic works, as his contribution to the economic transformation of Cuba during the early stages of the revolutionary process was central…

Alliance Marxist-Leninist: The Theory of the “Black Nation” in the U.S.A.

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 Bearing on This Theme – Upon Jews and the Bund v) Polemics with Rosa Luxemburg 2. STALIN, THE NATIONAL QUESTION, AND THE QUESTION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE “BLACK NATION” THEORY i) Stalin’s Definition Of A Nation ii) Stalin On The Rights Of Minorities And The…

Alienation: The Pain of All Working People

by Francis Isolde Any person who is conscious at any level of what happens in the world, from occurrences within their immediate surroundings to larger forces driving political economy in one nation-state or many, must comprehend that there is something wrong. Working men and women who toil day in and day out to make ends meet for themselves and their loved ones understand this feeling of “wrongness” particularly acutely. As well, we are separated from one another, made to feel that we cannot trust in and rely on one another, and an essential loneliness follows from this. There is something…

In defense of Foster from the slander of “Settlers”

By Leon V., Red Phoenix correspondent, Florida. Published in the 1980’s, J. Sakai’s Settlers has enjoyed a cult following among portions of American revisionists. Sakai pulls no punches in attacking everything he considers an aspect of “settler-colonialism,” some of which are worthy of criticism and others which are nothing but boldly inaccurate. Sakai’s conception and narrative of William Z. Foster falls into the latter. Sakai launches brash claims against the legacy of one of the foremost influential labor organizers of the 20th century by assessing that Foster was chauvinist and sought to inspire a race war between laborers. “In his…

The Anti-Marxist nature of Queer-Antagonistic Revisionism

By Ian Ocx and Red Nesbitt of the American Party of Labor. Introduction In his report to the Eighth Congress of the Party of Labor of Albania, comrade Enver Hoxha stated, “The Marxist-Leninists are not conservative and fanatical, as the revisionists and the bourgeois charge. On the contrary, they are the most progressive people, resolute fighters against everything outdated and backward. They stand firmly on the positions of the new and fight with all their might for its victory.” It is in the spirit of Marxism-Leninism that every communist is duty bound to consistently learn, grow, change, and develop as…

Possibilities of Building Socialism Without Passing Through the Stage of Developed Capitalism

From Albania Today, 1973, 4 By Hekuran Mara – Professor, member of the Academy of Sciences of the PR of Albania, a specialist on problems of political economy. For the undeveloped countries capitalism is not the only prospect of historical development. There also exists the possibility of the transformation of society on a socialist basis. But the “new” revisionist theory of the so-called “non-capitalist road of development” is a deception aimed at putting conventional capitalist development into a false socialist shell. The old colonial system of imperialism has disintegrated under the blows of armed national liberation struggle. Peoples who for…

The Market Under Socialism

ALLIANCE May 2005 Introductory Note With the permission of the Committee of the Stalin Society, I am circulating to members a statement on the present situation in Albania by another former Secretary of the Albanian Society and myself. An Albanian translation is being circulated underground by Albanian Marxist—Leninists. I am taking the opportunity at the same time to circulate a clarification and amplification of the points I made in the discussion which followed Ella Rule’s excellent paper on Stalin’s Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR’. THE MARKET UNDER SOCIALISM by W. B. Bland Is there a Market under Socialism?…

A Marxist Perspective on Human Nature

Written by Francis Isolde for the Red Phoenix, 2010. Of all the reactionary squawking against the theory of Marxism, of the need for and viability of revolution, no worry is more prevalent than that of “human nature.” According to the capitalist, human beings are fundamentally greedy, ego-centric beings who can only be compelled to act with the promise of profit. This understanding has it that “free market” capitalism is a natural by-product of this greed, this social-Darwinist thirst for dominance and material extravagance, and that any system that ignores this essential “human nature” is doomed to corruption at the top and…