Understanding Soviet Revisionism Klaus MarksteinJanosik20 February 2023LLCO.org Table of Contents Introduction 1 Definitions 2 Dialectics of Societal Change 3 Economic Analysis 3.1 Distribution of Wealth 3.2 State Investment 3.3 Exploitation 3.4 The Black Market 3.5 A New Kind of Capitalism? 4 Political Analysis 4.1 The Communist Party 4.2 Trade Unions 4.3 Soviet Democracy 5 Relations …
75th Anniversary of Victory Day 9 May 2020LLCO.org This year marks the 75th anniversary of Victory Day, the end of the Great Patriotic War which was on May 9, 1945. It was the day when Germany officially surrendered. The event took place nine days after the Red Army victory at the Battle of Berlin (April …
Featured image: Brzezinski visits Osama bin Laden and other Mujahideen fighters during training. Afghanistan, the Forgotten Proxy War Janelle Velina30 March 2019LLCO.org When it comes to war-torn Afghanistan and the role played by the United States and its NATO allies, what comes first to mind for most is the ‘War on Terror’ campaign launched in …
The Global Hegemony of the U.S. Dollar, a Brief History By Janelle Velina (llco.org) Since the United States entered into the Second World War considerably late, it did not suffer as much damage or casualties as other countries had. It also helped that its geographical location kept its cities from suffering the infrastructural damage seen …
Two Roads Defeated in the Cultural Revolution Part 1: Young Generals and Mass Movements Prairie Fire18 August 2008LLCO.org Part 2: https://llco.org/two-roads-defeated-in-the-cultural-revolution-part-2-lin-biaos-road/Part 3: https://llco.org/two-roads-defeated-part-3-proletarian-jacobins/ “Is, however, such a ‘terrible accomplishment’ not the elementary gesture of every true revolutionary? Why revolution at all, if we do not think that ‘the customary order of things should never be …
Celebrating the Hundred Year Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution (llco.org) Medved Pobedy 7 November 2017 All Power to the Soviets! – V. Lenin The 7th of November 2017 marks the one hundred year anniversary of the 1917 socialist revolution in Russia, often referred to as the “October Revolution” because it took place on …
May Day 2017 “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants” -Isaac Newton Today is International Workers’ Day, or May Day. On this day, the Leading Lights join with our comrades and fellow travelers around the world to honor the brave souls that came before us, leading humanity towards …
Leading Light Communism and the Writings of Antonio Gramsci –Jacob Brown Part 1/3: Cultural Hegemony (llco.org) A key component of the power of the bourgeoisie is through the use of what Italian communist Antonio Gramsci called “cultural hegemony”. The global bourgeoisie of today, the Bourgeois “First” World, not only rules society through the brute force …
Trotskyist “Permanent Revolution” is Counter-revolution –Jacob Brown (llco.org) Trotskyism in its various forms has outlasted most other revisionist lines of the same time period, going on 80 years since Leon Trotsky’s demise. The reasons for Trotskyisms persistence has very little to do with the successes of Trotskyist practice. Trotskyism’s persistence today has more to do …
Gandhi, Non-Violence and the Liberation of the Proletariat from Imperialism By End Imperialism and Serve The People (llco.org) Norman Finkelstein is a person whom we have a lot of respect for. Finkelstein has courageously and consistently combined impeccable scholarship with committed pro-Palestine activism. We have previously been pleased to see him support the right of …