Category: History

Lin Biaoism and the Third World: How Idealism Distorts Class

Lin Biaoism and the Third World: How Idealism Distorts Class

Published by Victor Vaughn on March 1, 2024

by Victor Vaughn An odd phenomenon is haunting the halls of Maoism – a chauvinist set of ideas loosely forged from the writings of Chinese military officer and politician Lin Biao. These ideas, to the extent to which they form coherent ideology at all, can roughly be termed “Lin Biaoism.” To be perfectly clear, I am under no impression that “Lin Biaoism” is an entirely new ideology. Lin Biao’s works are not significant enough to constitute a new stage of revolutionary science. What does exist is a wing of Maoism, usually associated with the “third-worldist” variety, that upholds the works…

Revisionism and the Process of Capitalist Restoration

Revisionism and the Process of Capitalist Restoration

Published by Victor Vaughn on March 1, 2024

by Alfonso Casal Most people reading this can agree on two incontestable facts: namely, that in 1956 a revisionist clique headed by Nikita Khrushchev took control of the Soviet party and state; and in 1991, the Soviet Union was dismembered and dissolved, and capitalism fully reestablished in its former territories. Our theoretical disagreements center on what happened between those two points. There are two antipodal, yet equally erroneous views that one often hears regarding what happened during those three decades. The first, which corresponds to a sort of primitive Maoism, is that Khrushchev made his speech at the 20th Party…

The Workers’ Party of Korea and Revisionism

The Workers’ Party of Korea and Revisionism

Published by Victor Vaughn on March 1, 2024

Written by Bill Bland for the Communist League INTRODUCTION In his paper entitled ‘THE WPK’S STRUGGLE AGAINST REVISIONISM’, Comrade Dermot Hudson expresses agreement with a reported statement by Nina Andreyeva: “As the Russian communist leader Dr. Nina Andreyeva remarked at the Copenhagen Seminar on the Juche Idea in 1995…” (Dermot Hudson: ‘The WPK’s Struggle against Modern Revisionism’; p. 1). The statement concerned was to the effect that the critique of modern revisionism made by the Workers’ Party of Korea was ” … more throroughgoing and mature … ” (Nina Andreyeva: Statement at Copenhagen Seminar on the Juche Idea’ (1995), cited…

The Case of Sultan-Galiyev

The Case of Sultan-Galiyev

Published by Victor Vaughn on March 1, 2024

This article was published by Alliance (Marxist-Leninist) as part of the publication Alliance, issue #51, “Pan-Arabic or Pan-Islamic ‘Socialism.’” By Comrade Bland of the Communist League (UK); was written for the Marxist-Leninist Bureau Report no 3; and presented to the Stalin Society (circa 1994) Marxist-Leninist Research Bureau Report No. 3, dated 1995 MIR-SAID SULTAN-GALIYEV* was a Volga Tatar who was born in a village in Bashkiria in 1880. He studied first at the village mekteb (Muslim primary school), and then at the teacher’s training college of Kazan. He returned to his native village as a teacher, and then went to…

The “Doctor’s Case” and the Death of Stalin

The “Doctor’s Case” and the Death of Stalin

Published by Victor Vaughn on March 1, 2024

An extended annotated version of a report presented to the Stalin Society in London in October 1991, by Bill Bland, for the Communist League (UK) INTRODUCTION By Alliance Marxist-Leninist There have been many requests recently to Alliance for a web-edition of this document. Comrade Bland often neglected his own writings, even forgetting that he may have researched any topic. Although this article was not printed as an official document of the Communist League (CL), it was a critical part of the corpus of work that Bland performed as the leader of the CL. Against many others, Bland defended the role of…

On Palestine, the Palestine Liberation Movement, and USA Imperialism: A Marxist-Leninist View

On Palestine, the Palestine Liberation Movement, and USA Imperialism: A Marxist-Leninist View

Published by Hari Kumar on November 6, 2023

In response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack prompting the wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people By Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix international correspondent. Introduction The history of the Palestinian liberation movement is very convoluted and long. Furthermore the many tomes that have been published on it over the years do not make for an easy summary. But perhaps at bottom, the history of the theft of Palestinian land is not very complicated, as Finkelstein makes clear: “Looking back after two decades of study and reflection, I am struck most by how uncomplicated the Israel-Palestine conflict is. There is no…

Post Second World War German Literature: Trümmerliteratur (rubble literature) or der Stunde Null (hour zero) or Heimkehrerliteratur (or home coming) literature

Post Second World War German Literature: Trümmerliteratur (rubble literature) or der Stunde Null (hour zero) or Heimkehrerliteratur (or home coming) literature

Published by Mike B on July 5, 2022

Written by Hari Kumar, May 2022; published July 2022 A review of “Draussen vor der Tur” by Wolfgang Borchert; viewed May 2022 at ‘Berliner Ensemble’ Berlin Download this article as a PDF We are facing a driving current move towards a new inter-imperialist war. Again- it might be said. But not as it was in WW2 where one protagonist was a socialist state under fierce attack. Today is more akin to WW1. Naturally given the increase in capital development over some 100 years, it is at a higher degree of intensified inter-imperialist competition. The Ukraine war is only the…

Review: “Molotov’s Letter to The Central Committee of CPSU – On the Personality Cult and the Programme of CPSU”

Review: “Molotov’s Letter to The Central Committee of CPSU – On the Personality Cult and the Programme of CPSU”

Published by Hari Kumar on June 24, 2022

Note: The text below is an excerpt. Download the entire document as a 30+ page PDF file via this link. Additionally, the article below includes a reference to W.B. Bland’s review of Molotov’s memoir, which we have reproduced in its entirety via this link. Book Review: “Molotov’s Letter to The Central Committee of CPSU – On the Personality Cult and the Programme of CPSU”; Ed. Svitlana M, Erdogan A; np; 2022 – Hereafter “Letter”; 372 pages Hari Kumar: June 5, 2022 As pdf found on web at: https://neodemocracy.blogspot.com/2022/05/letter-from-v-m-molotov-to-central.html To avert any dismantling of any of our future socialist constructions, we…

Garbis Altinoğlu: On the Geopolitics of the Caucasus Crisis

Garbis Altinoğlu: On the Geopolitics of the Caucasus Crisis

Published by Hari Kumar on March 14, 2022

Written in late August 2008, the essay “On the Geopolitics of the Caucasus Crisis (Georgia, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia; Russo-Georgian War)” was originally published by Garbis Altinoğlu on his Facebook page. The work was translated into publishable form by the family of Garbis Altinoğlu, who also gave permission for this publication. The English edition is presented as a PDF via this link. The work has also been added to the Marxists Internet Archive dedicated archive of works by Garbis Altinoğlu and may be viewed via this link.

W.B. Bland on Chechnya

W.B. Bland on Chechnya

Published by Hari Kumar on March 8, 2022

Note: This material was originally written by W.B. Bland in January 1995 for Marxist-Leninist Research Bureau, of which Bland was the principal author. The material uses the alternate transliteration “Chechenya” throughout. CHECHENYA (Introductory note) CHECHENYA (pronounced chech-en-YA) is a republic situated on the northern flank of the Caucasus Mountains, which form the republic’s southern boundary. Its area is 5,000 square miles and its population 700 thousand. Chechenya is surrounded by the territory of the Russian Federation on all sides — being bordered on the north by Kalmykia, on the east by Dagestan, on the south by Georgia, and on the…