Anton Pannekoek 1938 http://www.geocities.com/~johngray/lenphl12.htm The publication first of a German, then of an English translation of Lenin’s work shows that it was meant to play a wider role than its function in the old Russian party conflict. It is presented now to the younger generation of socialists and communists in order to influence the...
… The ultimate objective of the socialist revolution is a global classless society in which technology enables minimal human labour to produce goods and services, allowing these to be freely distributed to satisfy people’s rational needs. Socially owned, this system of production would free everyone from the compulsion to work for others. It would...
… Dear comrades, Historical experience, the developments themselves have refuted the views that spoke of “the end of history”, the “obsolescence of Marxism-Leninism” and the “end of the Communist Parties”. On the contrary, today there is a stronger need for the existence of Communist Parties that have roots in the working class and the...
From The Downfall and Future of Socialism 1. Communists distinguish themselves from other supporters of socialism in that their conceptions of the future social order and the path leading to it are based upon a theory of history,historical materialism, the essence of which was worked out by Marx, Engels, and Lenin. The theoretical content...
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