The fight against revisionism

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Marxism has been twisted and "revised" beyond recognition by the apologists for the false "communist" regimes such as yesterday's Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and today's China and Cuba. Meanwhile Trotskyism is pretty much just the flip side of revisionist Stalinism. For Marxism-Leninism to once again provide clarity to the thorny questions and controversies facing progressive activists, it must be anti-revisionist Marxism, a Marxism that takes account of the experience of the revolutions and mass movements of the working class and is opposed to revisionist state-capitalism as well as western capitalism.

On how the partition of Ukraine is presented as the way towards peace  (part 2 of "The crisis of the anti-war movement deepens". No to the partition of Ukraine! (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, November 11, 2022)

A month of heroic struggle against the Iranian theocratic dictatorship, and the paralysis of the American anti-war movement-part 1 (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, November 3, 2022)

Huge demonstration in Berlin supports Iranian women's struggle. The articles also includes a section "'Leftists' who oppose progressive struggles" about WWP and PSL. (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, October 25, 2022)

Another result of the Monthly Review's Marxist phrases without anti-revisionism -- The Critical China Scholars group opposes the blindness of the Monthly Review to the oppression of the Uighurs:  The Critical China Scholars group issues an eloquent Open Letter (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, October 21, 2021)

Why the Global Day of Protest against war with Iran fizzled:  The anti-war movement and its relation to the mass protests in Iran and Iraq; the CVO at the Global Day of Protest; how fake anti-imperialists supposedly "proved" that the Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 wasn't shot down by Iranian missiles; and the Open Letter to Code Pink that opposed hobnobbing with tyrants. (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, January 28, 2020). 

Oppose a war between the U.S. and Iran by showing solidarity with the people's uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa!  Excerpts from, and support for, the statement of the Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists, which connects the anti-war struggle with the people's movements. Also a comment, which includes criticism of those who oppose various of the people's movements in the name of a false "anti-imperialism". (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, January 5, 2020).

HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT:
ANTI-MILITARISM AND THE 'ARMED NATION'
(more against the pro-draft stand of the Trotskyist LRP, 105K)
by Joseph Green
(Issue #37, vol. 12, #1, Feb. 2006)

THE MAOIST RCP COURTS THE LIBERAL BOURGEOISIE:
(Issue #37, vol. 12, #1, Feb. 2006)

Seattle Anti-Imperialist Committee statement on the "World Can't Wait" coalition:
It's not just Bush's program--a powerful movement against repression and war requires politics independent of the equally imperialist Democratic Party. (19K)

SWEDISH MARXIST-LENINISTS DENOUNCE THE RIGHTISM BEHIND TROTSKYISM'S LEFT PHRASES
(Issues #35, 36 and 37).
On the history of the Swedish Marxist-Leninist movement
and the bankruptcy of Trotskyism (parts one, two, and three)
by the comrades of the former FRP of Sweden
including statement on the dissolution of the FRP (October 4, 2004) and
the evaluation document of the history of the FRP. (291K). The link given here is to the entire document, while it appeared in three parts in CV #36.

THE POLEMIC CONTINUES:
LRP PERSISTS IN DENOUNCING THE ANTI-MILITARIST STRUGGLE
(CV Issue #36, vol. 11, #2, March 15, 2005).



WHAT SHOULD AND WHAT SHOULDN'T BE LEARNED FROM THE 1934 MINNEAPOLIS TRUCKERS' STRIKE
(CV Issue #36, vol. 11, #2, September 10, 2005).

  • Building a strike movement (a critical evaluation of Harry DeBoer's pamphlet How to Win Strikes: Lessons from the 1934 Minneapolis Truckers' Strike, pointing out the aftermath of the struggle and other aspects of the history that DeBoers glosses over, 36K)
    by Pete Brown



MORE ABOUT THE ANTI-MARXIST NATURE OF TROTSKYISM
(Issue #35, vol. 11, #1, March 15, 2005)

  • An outline of Trotskyism's anti-Marxist theories -- part four (conclusion, 153K)
    On Trotsky's entryism, factionalism, and sectarianism, on his denial of the existence of working class trends in literature, and on dialectics
    by Joseph Green
  • On the history of the Swedish Marxist-Leninist movement,
    and the bankruptcy of Trotskyism (part one), by the comrades of the former FRP of Sweden
    including statement on the dissolution of the FRP (October 4, 2004) and
    the evaluation document of the history of the FRP. (291K). The link given here is to the entire document, while CV #35 contains only the first half of the document.

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ABOUT THE ANTI-MARXIST NATURE OF TROTSKYISM - part 3
On Trotsky's fantasies, non-partyism, and cult of pure administration
(Issue #34, vol. 10, #2, August 25, 2004)



MORE ABOUT THE EMPTY THEORETICAL BASIS OF TROTSKYISM
(Issue #33, vol. 10, #1, March 25, 2004)

TROTSKYIST LRP OPPOSES THE ANTI-DRAFT STRUGGLE
(Issue #33, vol. 10, #1, March 25, 2004)



ABOUT THE ANTI-MARXIST-LENINIST NATURE OF TROTSKYISM
(Issue #32, vol. 9, #2, October 8, 2003)

Correspondence: 70K

* Back to the classics of Marxism-Leninism by the League for the Revolutionary Party of Sweden (FRP)

* Remarks on the resolution of the FRP by Joseph Green

* Additional remarks by the FRP

MORE ON TROTSKYISM AND THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT:

Anti-war slogans in light of the outcome of the war
which deals with the questions of the fight on two fronts (against both foreign imperialism and local tyranny), the question of the UN, and the fiasco of "military but not political support" for the Hussein regime, by Joseph Green (26K)

Trotskyist LRP opposes draft resistance denounces the LRP for supporting the reintroduction of the draft, by Tim Hall (17K)
(Issue #31, vol. 9, #1, May 20, 2003)

THE DEBATE ON THE "DEFEND IRAQ" SLOGAN
Defend the Iraqi masses, not the Hussein regime. From the controversy today as well as articles from the 1991 gulf War

A CRITIQUE OF THE BASIC IDEAS OF TROTSKYISM:
An outline of Trotskyism's anti-Marxist theories (part one) by Joseph Green (107K)
(Issue #30, vol. 8, #3, Dec. 15, 2002)

AGAINST TROTSKYIST "MILITARY SUPPORT"
FOR REACTIONARY REGIMES:
The third side, the Iraqi masses: Opposing both sides in the war crisis
by Joseph Green (21K)
(Issue #30, vol. 8, #3, Dec. 15, 2002)

THE SOCIALIST DEBATE ON THE TALIBAN (Part two):
More on Trotskyist negation of the Leninist view of anti-imperialism
Anti-imperialism and the class struggle by Joseph Green (104K)
An outline of Leninist anti-imperialism (50K)
(Issue #29, vol. 8, #2, June 20, 2002)

THE SOCIALIST DEBATE ON THE TALIBAN --
Trotskyism slips on the supposed anti-imperialism of the Taliban: (53K)
(Issue #28, vol. 8, #1, January 9, 2002)

  • Introduction by Joseph Green
  • Sectarian propagandism by Bob Pitt (who, in the name of anti-imperialism, opposes denouncing both sides in the US-Taliban war )
  • Neither Taliban nor imperialism by Ian Donovan



REPLY TO A MAOIST on Mao's relation to the three worlds theory: (58K)
Mao and the three worlds theory -- Joseph Green replies to Majdur Travail. This file also contains the complete text of Majdur's article "Joseph Green Refuted", which did not appear in CV due to lack of space.
(Issue #27, vol. 2, #1, Sep. 6, 2001)

CHINA: The trotskyist Spartacist League on China:
`Long live state-capitalism!' by Pete Brown, 35K
(Issue #26, vol. 7, #1, May 1, 2001)

CORRESPONDENCE: an exchange on Maoism, the state sector, the three-worlds theory, and realpolitik (50K)
(Issue #21, vol. 5, #2, Aug. 15, 1999)

RUSSIA: On recent remarks of Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation: State-capitalist politics descends into naked anti-Semitism
by Mark, Detroit (29K)
(Issue #20, vol. 5, #1, March 28, 1999)

MAO VS. THE LEFT: The rise and suppression of the `ultra-left' in the Chinese cultural revolution by Pete Brown (95K)
(Issue #20, vol. 5, #1, March 28, 1999)

A Maoist conundrum: reviewing William Hinton's "The Great Reversal:
THE PRIVATIZATION OF CHINA, 1978-1989" by Pete Brown (45K)
(Issue #19, vol. 4, #4, December 8, 1998)

ON WALTER DAUM'S THE LIFE AND DEATH OF STALINISM: Competition among Soviet enterprises and ministries, and the collapse of the Soviet Union by Joseph Green (98K)
(Issue #19, vol. 4, #4, December 8, 1998)

The old state-capitalist "socialism" was rotten while today--
MARKET-CAPITALISM RAVAGES THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY by Mark, Detroit (65K)
(Issue #19, vol. 4, #4, December 8, 1998)

Does the existence of nationalized industry prove that
the capitalist law of value has been abolished?
PREOBRAZHENSKY--ideologist of state capitalism (Part 2), by Joseph Green (185K)
IN DEFENSE OF MARXIST MATERIALISM: Chicago Workers' Voice discards the Marxist `paradigm' [after discarding anti-revisionism] by Mark, Detroit (40K)
A review of Kuhn's book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions": Some thoughts on the left and modern philosophy by Sarah, Chicago Workers' Voice (20K)
(Issue #18, vol. 4, #3, August 1, 1998)

Does the existence of nationalized industry prove that a country is socialist?:
PREOBRAZHENSKY--ideologist of state capitalism (Part 1), by Joseph Green (111K)
(Issue #17, vol. 4, #2, April 20, 1998)

Privatization takes hold in mainland CHINA --
millions laid off, by Pete Brown (17K)
(Issue #17, vol. 4, #2, April 20, 1998)

CUBA in the 1960s: Bureaucrats head to `communism' without the workers,
by Mark, Detroit (80K)
Report on a trip to CUBA in Nov. 97 by Barb (Chicago Workers' Voice) (54K)
Reply to Barb's report: A desperate search for `shoots of socialism'. by Mark, Detroit (44K)
CASTRO embraces the Pope of reaction, by Gary, New Jersey (6K)
From the correspondence page:
About "left"-communist and other views of Cuba (13K)
(Issue #17, vol. 4, #2, April 20, 1998)

From the correspondence page:
Questions on the "deformed workers' state", NEP and state capitalism
and also against the De Leonist SLP (15K)
(Issue #17, vol. 4, #2, April 20, 1998)

Why did the SOVIET UNION fall?
Closing their eyes to the obvious in their `Revolution from Above': Kotz and Weir deny the economic collapse of Soviet state-capitalism (part one) by Joseph Green (65K)
(Issue #16, vol. 4, #1, Jan. 20, 1998)

CHINA: a congress of capitalists by Pete Brown (29K)
(Issue #15, vol. 3, #4, Oct. 25, 1997)

Che, the armed struggle, and revolutionary politics(41K)
(Issue #14, vol. 3, #3, August 10, 1997)

How some former anti-revisionists reconcile with Cuban revisionism:
Apologizing for the Castro regime or supporting the Cuban workers?
by Mark, Detroit and including criticism of the following three articles:
--Movie review: "Che" by Sarah, Chicago Workers' Voice
--Report on a visit to Cuba, Jan. 20, 1993 by Jim, S.F.Bay Area
--What's happening in Cuba? 1993 by Michael, Detroit
(Issue #13, vol. 3, #2, May 8, 1997)

State-capitalism under a "socialist" banner:
* The anarchy of production under the veneer of Soviet revisionist planning (101K)
* Cuba's economic system of the 1970s and early 1980s:
Cuban "socialism" adopts the Soviet state-capitalist model (67K)
Correspondence (More on Red Star Rising Again -- proceeding from
actual, what stand does this mean towards the revisionist regimes of today?)
(Issue #12, Vol. 3, #1, March 1, 1997)

Did Castro steer Cuba towards socialism in the late 1980s? (50K)
How the SWP whitewashes the Castro regime(29K)
Excerpts from two SWP articles on Cuba(29K)
Correspondence (Red Star Rising Again asks, "what is
marxism today?")
(Issue #11, Vol. 2, #6, Dec. 15, 1996)

The imperialist Helms-Burton law and the myth of Cuban socialism (36K)
The Communist Voice Organization discusses its future
(Issue #10, Vol. 2, #5, Oct. 1, 1996)

Correspondence: Back and forth on Cuba
(Issue #9, Vol. 2, #4, Aug. 1, 1996)

Lenin's views on state capitalism -- review (Jim's report)
State capitalism, Leninism, and the transition to socialism
* Part one: criticism of Jim's report
(Issue #8, Vol. 2, #3, June 1, 1996)

Debate on Marxism and the right of nations to self-determination (15K)
(Issue #7, Vol. 2, #2, March 15, 1996)

Who are the communists?
(Issue #6, Vol. 2, #1, Jan. 15, 1995)

What's left of united front tactics without anti-revisionism?
(Issue #5, Vol. 1, #5, Nov. 15, 1995)

Communism as a science
CWV repudiates anti-revisionism (on CWV Theo Journal #7)
On the need for a public stand against Castroism
(Issue #3, Vol. 1, #3, August 1, 1995)

On the stand of Chicago Workers' Voice
-- denigrating anti-revisionism and glorifying Zapatista theories
(Issue #2, Vol. 1, #2, June 1, 1995)

The rebirth of communism (10K)
Should we bring anti-revisionism to the masses?
(Issue #1, Vol. 1, #1, April 15, 1995)



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