Monty Python meets the SWP… Inspired by attending Marxism 2001.
(more…)Category: Russian Revolution
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Review: A Critique of State Socialism
A review of an excellent comic version of Bakunin’s critique of Marxism.
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From Russia with Critique
A review of a collection of articles by Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman on the Russian Revolution. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 69 (Winter 2017)
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The Trotskyist School of Falsification
A review of Victor Serge’s biography of Trotsky showing its limitations and revisionism. It shows that Serge’s account, like Trotskyist accounts in general, is at odds with what actually happened in Russia and presents an at times wishful thinking account of Trotsky’s actual ideas and activities. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 79 (Spring 2020)
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The State and Revolution: Theory and Practice
This is almost my chapter in the anthology Bloodstained: One Hundred Years of Leninist Counterrrevolution (Oakland/Edinburgh: AK Press, 2017). Some revisions were made during the editing process which are not included here. In addition, references to the 1913 French edition of Kropotkin’s Modern Science and Anarchy have been replaced with those from the 2018 English-language translation. However, the bulk of the text is the same, as is the message and its call to learn from history rather than repeat it. I would, of course, urge you to buy the book.
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