Category: Revisionism

Guevaraism: the Theory of the Guerrilla Elite

Guevaraism: the Theory of the Guerrilla Elite

Published by Victor Vaughn on September 30, 2024

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

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

Published by Victor Vaughn on September 30, 2024

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

Che Guevara and the Political Economy of Socialism

Published by Victor Vaughn on September 30, 2024

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…

In defense of Foster from the slander of “Settlers”

In defense of Foster from the slander of “Settlers”

Published by Victor Vaughn on March 8, 2024

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

The Anti-Marxist nature of Queer-Antagonistic Revisionism

Published by Victor Vaughn on March 8, 2024

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…

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…