INTRODUCTION: The Purpose of the Present Work
I. – WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED
The Principal Indices of Industrial Growth
Comparative Estimates of These Achievements
Production per Capita of the Population
II. – ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE ZIGZAGS OF THE LEADERSHIP
“Military Communism”, “The New Economic Policy” (NEP) and the Course Toward the Kulak
A Sharp Turn: “The Five-Year Plan in Four Years” and “Complete Collectivization”
III. – SOCIALISM AND (...)
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The betrayed revolution, Leon Trotsky
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The ABC of Materialist Dialectics
31 May 2014, by Robert ParisDialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and formal logic bear a relationship similar to that between higher and lower mathematics.
I will here attempt to sketch the substance of the problem in a very concrete form. The Aristotelian logic of the simple syllogism starts from the (...) -
The Commune of Paris 1871
10 December 2009, by Robert ParisLeon Trotsky Lessons of the Paris Commune (February 1921)
Written: 4 February 1921.
EACH TIME that we study the history of the Commune we see it from a new aspect, thanks to the experience acquired by the later revolutionary struggles and above all by the latest revolutions, not only the Russian but the German and Hungarian revolutions. The Franco-German war was a bloody explosion, harbinger of an immense world slaughter, the Commune of Paris a lightning harbinger of a world (...) -
Leon Trotsky, Organizer of Victory
15 February 2014, by Robert Paris[Leon Trotsky, Organizer of Victory > http://www.marxists.org/archive/radek/1923/xx/trotsky.htm]
(1923)
From Fourth International, Vol. 5 No. 8, August 1944, pp. 239–241. Reprinted in Fourth International [Amsterdam], No. 7, Autumn 1959, pp. 21–23. [A] Transcribed by Ted Crawford. Supplementary transcription by Einde O’Callaghan. Marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.
The article printed here was first published in Pravda in 1923 and an English (...) -
Leon Trotsky - Workers’ Control of Production
29 September 2021, by Robert ParisLeon Trotsky
Workers’ Control of Production
(August 1931)
In answering your question I will endeavor to jot down here, as a preliminary to an exchange of opinions, a few general considerations pertaining to the slogan of workers’ control of production.
The first question that arises in this connection is: Can we picture workers’ control of production as a stable regime, not everlasting, of course, but of quite long duration? In order to reply to the question it is necessary to (...) -
The Comintern and the GPU - The Attempted Assassination of May 24 (1940) and the Communist Party of Mexico
20 September 2020Siqueiros, the Stalinist Assassin
Leon Trotsky
The Comintern and the GPU
The Attempted Assassination of May 24 (1940) and the Communist Party of Mexico
(August 1940)
Original 1940 introduction by Fourth International
EDITORIAL NOTE: This article was finished by Leon Trotsky a few days before his assassination. He intended it for the Mexican court in relation to the machine gun assault by Stalin’s GPU upon his bedroom on May 24, but so wrote it that it could be used for general (...) -
« La quantité se transforme en qualité », cette thèse dialectique de Hegel, Marx et Engels est-elle vérifiée par les sciences actuelles ?
18 décembre 2015, par Robert Paris« La quantité se transforme en qualité », cette thèse dialectique de Hegel, Marx et Engels est-elle vérifiée par les sciences actuelles ?
C’est une question posée par un de nos amis lecteurs et à laquelle nous répondons d’autant plus volontiers que les exemples abondent aujourd’hui, bien plus qu’à l’époque des fondateurs de la dialectique hégélienne ou marxiste.
Que peut-on répondre à la lumière de nos connaissances scientifiques actuelles ?
Qualité et quantité sont des contraires. (...) -
The revolution betrayed
3 May 2008The Purpose of the Present Work
The bourgeois world at first tried to pretend not to notice the economic successes of the soviet regime – the experimental proof, that is, of the practicability of socialist methods. The learned economists of capital still often try to maintain a deeply cogitative silence about the unprecedented tempo of Russia’s industrial development, or confine themselves to remarks about an extreme “exploitation of the peasantry”. They are missing a wonderful (...) -
Marxism and Science
11 January 2018Marxism and Science
Engels, Introduction, Dialectics of Nature, 1883 :
MODERN natural science, which alone has achieved an all-round systematic and scientific development, as contrasted with the brilliant natural-philosophical intuitions of antiquity and the extremely important but sporadic discoveries of the Arabs, which for the most part vanished without results - this modern natural science dates, like all more recent history, from that mighty epoch which we Germans term the (...) -
Le matriarcat, ses causes et sa fin sous les coups de la guerre sociale
25 avril 2012, par Robert ParisLes femmes n’ont pas été dominées depuis toujours. Au contraire, de très nombreuses populations anciennes (pour ne pas dire primitives) ont connu une société où la place de la femme était plus importante au plan des moeurs, au plan social comme au plan politique et symbolique que celle de l’homme. Le matriarcat n’est pas une invention de théoriciens puisqu’on le retrouve à la fois dans les cas suivants : celtes, basques, ligures, vikings, burgondes, touaregs, trobriandais, inuits, (...)
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