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| | The Lessons of October by Leon Trotsky |
 | | The part played in bourgeois revolutions by the economic power of the bourgeoisie, by its education, by its municipalities and universities, is a part which can be filled in a proletarian revolution only by the party of the proletariat. | | | Without a party, apart from a party, over the head of a party, or with a substitute for a party, the proletarian revolution cannot conquer. | | | The proletarian revolution is precisely distinguished by the fact that the proletariat -- in the person of its vanguard -- acts in it not only as the main offensive force but also as the guiding force. |
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| | October Revolution & Tactics of the Russian Communists |
| | Most probably, the world revolution will develop by the breaking away of a number of new countries from the system of the imperialist states as a result of revolution, while the proletarians of these countries will be supported by the proletariat of the imperialist states. | | | They have reduced Marxism to such a state of wretchedly liberal distortion that nothing exists for them beyond the antithesis between bourgeois revolution and proletarian revolution — and even this antithesis they interpret in an extremely lifeless way. | | | The opportunists of all countries assert that the proletarian revolution can begin — if it is to begin anywhere at all, according to their theory — only in industrially developed countries, and that the more highly developed these countries are industrially the more chances there are for the victory of socialism. |
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| | 4 The immediate tasks of the AAU are: (a) the smashing of the trade unions and of the political parties, these main hindrances to the unification of the proletarian class and the further development of the social revolution, which can be no business of parties and trade unions. | | | The German proletariat must finally set about gathering this proletarian class in the places of its servitude for the task of revolution, schooling it, organising it, setting it on the march and leading it in the struggle. | | | As the winning of this goal through struggle can only be the business of the proletarian class itself, the demand hence arises quite naturally for the proletariat to give up all reformist methods of struggle and replace them with a resolute, revolutionary form of struggle, also organised differently. |
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| | Kurt Landau |
| | In contrast to proletarian revolutions originating in democratic ones, that of November 1918 was a sudden and independent outbreak, and from this point of view was more like the February Revolution in Russia, or that of April in Spain, than to the proletarian revolutions of July or October. | | | As we have already shown, the class nature of the revolution was proletarian, and it was the proletariat which resolved the problems of the bourgeois democratic revolution (the agrarian, national and religious questions) and simultaneously began the struggle for Socialism. | | | While the proletarian vanguard demanded that the revolutionary workers’ democracy should exclude the ruling class from all participation in politics, the counter-revolution replied with ‘fraternity’ ‘liberty’ and ‘true democracy’, which included both exploited and exploiters, workers and bosses, peasants and landowners, soldiers and generals. |
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| | VLADIMIR ILYICH LENIN - LIFE AND WORK |
| | This conclusion was of immense importance for accomplishing a socialist revolution and represented the further development of the Marxist teaching on the proletarian state and on the forms of society's political organisation in the period of transition from capitalism to communism. | | | The proletarian party of a new type is profoundly internationalist in ideology and activity. | | | The Bolsheviks had the qualities that a proletarian party of a new type should have. |
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| | Principles of Communism (1847) By Friedrich Engels |
| | In all probability, the proletarian revolution will transform existing society gradually and will be able to abolish private property only when the means of production are available in sufficient quantity. | | | The proletarian works with the instruments of production of another, for the account of this other, in exchange for a part of the product. | | | These democratic socialists are either proletarians who are not yet sufficiently clear about the conditions of the liberation of their class, or they are representatives of the petty bourgeoisie, a class which, prior to the achievement of democracy and the socialist measures to which it gives rise, has many interests in common with the proletariat. |
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| | Chapter 9: THE PATHS OF "PROLETARIAN" POWER |
| | The ''proletarian" State has increasingly betrayed its true nature and proved that its proletarian-ness was a mere figment, as proletarians have been able to appreciate since the early years of the revolution, the more so since they themselves helped install it. | | | Nevertheless, this fraction of the proletariat helped the Bolshevik-Communist party to organize its "proletarian power" and erect "its" class State. | | | The fact that in the course of its degeneration the "proletarian" power has showed itself to be nothing more than a State power pure and simple is now beyond dispute and has induced it to desist from artful concealment of its real face. |
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| | What Distinguishes Our Party |
| | For us, the cause of the degeneration was the failure to spread and extend the proletarian revolution, and the abandonment of communist internationalism, whilst for the petty bourgeoisie, the revolution was a failure from the start because it was anti-democratic, because it installed a proletarian dictatorship. | | | Only by means of force will the proletarian State be able to systematically intervene in the social economy, and adopt those measures with which the collective management of production and distribution will take the place of the capitalist system. | | | The apparatus of the proletarian State, insofar as it is a means and arm of struggle in a transitional period between two social systems, does not derive its organizational strength from any existing constitutional canons or schemas that aim to represent all classes. |
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| | National Democratic Revolution or Proletarian Revolution: The Tasks in Germany |
| | The movement in Spain was a proletarian revolution which was diverted into a 'people's bourgeois democratic movement' against fascism, in alliance with the 'shadow of the bourgeoisie', while the bourgeoisie itself was on the side of Franco. | | | This characterisation did not prevent the Trotskyists from describing the Spanish events as an attempt at the proletarian revolution on the part of the masses, in spite of the content given it by the bourgeoisie and Stalinists. | | | Other than this, there can only be the bourgeois counter-revolution in a democratic or fascist form, democratic counter-revolution which will be supported by the Stalinists and Social Democrats under conditions of mass upsurge, just as the Social Democrats supported it in 1918. |
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| | The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution & the Reversal of Worker's Power in China |
| | The accepted view among Marxist-Leninists is that the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GCPR) was a struggle of the masses, led by Chairman Mao, to defeat the bourgeois rightists within the Party and thereby prevent their influence from growing to the point where they could reverse the proletarian dictatorship. | | | ....he noted that the slogan "Thoroughly Improve Proletarian Dictatorship" is a reactionary one....Speaking correctly, the proletarian dictatorship could only be improved partially. | | | But this line, insofar as it was Marxist-Leninist, also had a proletarian aspect, the intention of moving to socialism in a second-stage and the mobilization of the masses of workers and peasants to destroy the power of their class enemies. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Proletarian internationalism |
| | The antonym of proletarian internationalism is bourgeois nationalism. | | | Proletarian internationalism is summed up in the slogan, Workers of all countries, unite! | | | The idea is that members of the working class should act in solidarity towards world revolution and support working people in other countries, rather than following their respective national governments. |
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| | Lecture seven: Marxism, art and the Soviet debate over "proletarian culture" Part 4 |
| | The arguments of Trotsky and Voronsky against proletarian culture focused on a number of critical issues: 1) the ‘cultural question’ in the proletarian as opposed to the bourgeois revolution; 2) the nature of the relationship between a class and its culture; 3) a Marxist approach to artistic and creative work. | | | The task of the proletarian intelligentsia in general, both Trotsky and Voronsky argued, was not the abstract and artificial formation of some new culture existing in mid-air, but the urgent, definite task of “culture-bearing,” the planned and arduous job of “imparting to the backward masses... | | | The proletarian regime is unique in that its successful functioning involves its own dissolution. |
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| | The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution |
| | And the Cultural Revolution showed that the proletarian dictatorship was not an impediment for such democracy, on the contrary it was the condition which made such democracy possible. | | | The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR) had been unleashed by Mao Tsetung himself, but it was never the orchestrated political demonstrations serving "palace intrigue" that the imperialists and reactionaries try to claim. | | | It was a revolution because it sought to overthrow those sections of the state power that had been usurped by new exploiters and do away with those practices, customs and ideas which stood in the way of the revolution-s further advance to communism. |
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| | Cultural Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | On August 8, 1966, the Central Committee of CCP passed a bill, "Decisions on the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution". | | | This bill stated that the official position of China's government was now supportive of the purging of intellectuals and imperialists. | | | On July 28, 1966, representatives of the Red Guards wrote a formal letter to Mao, stating that mass purges, and all such-related social and political phenomena were justified, and right. |
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| | Zhang Shanguang and the Proletarian Revolution |
| | to the proletarian revolution because a clear and unifying goal of a | | | Those who are in denial would save themselves considerable trouble if they simply gave up for once and for all the idea of overthrowing the bourgeois domination of society--gave up once and for all any hope of a proletarian revolution that will liberate the working class and all oppressed humanity. | | | On Sunday, December 27, in a court in Huaihua city in Hunan province in China, Zhang Shanguang was sentenced to ten years in prison for "providing intelligence to hostile foreign organizations" (ie: giving an interview to Radio Free Asia about peasant demonstrations against crushing taxes). |
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| | Proletarian literature in the U.S. |
| | The attempt to build a proletarian party, a revolutionary organizing center for the workers' class struggle, was crucial for the wide extent of the struggle of the time -- and for its literary expressions. | | | Many writings were openly Marxist and revolutionary, some implicitly so, others indicated their authors had illusions that the reformists and union bureaucrats offered solutions, and in some cases the works showed a reformist, non-revolutionary spirit. | | | It was one of the currents that showed that an alternative to capitalism was growing within the womb of capitalism and suggested that the working class was capable of bringing about a revolution and creating a new world. |
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| | proletarian_dictatorship |
| | According to Marxist-Leninists, proletarian dictatorship needs guns, laws, and an army of its own to keep capitalist power from being reestablished after proletarian revolution. | | | ''Proletarian dictatorship''' (also called '''workers' dictatorship''') means the political rule of the working class over society, rather than the ruling class power of the wealthy exercised around the world today under various manifestations of capitalism. |
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| | The Second Communist Manifesto Foreword The Party of Proletarian Dictatorship. |
| | And in many countries, the bonfires of proletarian struggle burned, threatening to break out into the blaze of world revolution. | | | The Second Communist Manifesto Foreword The Party of Proletarian Dictatorship. | | | To the proletariat of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the word "communism" sounded like the word "hope." The year 1917 rang out like the peal of a bell that could be heard around the world. |
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| | From Capitalist Crisis to Proletarian Slavery / George Caffentzis, 1998 |
| | Consequently, an important condition for the common future proletarian future in North America is the survival and success of the struggle for indigenous autonomy in Chiapas. | | | There were periods when there was much political cooperation and communication between Mexican and US proletarian organizations. | | | They formalized the collapse of proletarian resistance to this tendency to slavery inherent in the system and facilitated a new era of enslavement and low wages in the US. |
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| | Introduction The Party of Proletarian Dictatorship. The Strike Commitee of Samara Stachkom |
| | So, the shape of the coming wave of proletarian revolution in the world depends greatly on you. | | | Outside the proletarian ranks, individuals drawn to this teaching are rare indeed. | | | Although they are enemies and frequently compete among themselves, they have, without discussion, organized an information blockade, a conspiracy of silence around the ideas of "The Second Communist Manifesto," the like of which has never before been seen in history. |
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| | The proletarian revolution can be fought out not in bourgeois but only in proletarian organisations. | | | 9 THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION The November Revolution of 1918 was the last off shoot of the bourgeois revolution of 1848. | | | It was recognised that: The proletarian revolution is completely different in character from the bourgeois revolution. |
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| | Morning Sun |
| | She emphasized that in the great proletarian cultural revolution, the struggle had to be conducted by reasoning and not by coercion or force. | | | It is bound to push the great proletarian cultural revolution forward in the world of literature and art with great vigor and guide the victorious advance of the mighty revolutionary contingents in literature and art throughout China in the direction indicated by Chairman Mao Tse-tung. | | | She touched on the question of the sending of cultural revolution work teams to various organizations and said this organizational form, of sending work teams, in the great proletarian cultural revolution was erroneous. |
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| | October Revolution & Tactics of the Russian Communists |
| | Trotsky's "permanent revolution" is the repudiation of Lenin's theory of the proletarian revolution; and conversely, Lenin's theory of the proletarian revolution is the repudiation of the theory of "permanent revolution." | | | Secondly, the circumstance that the October Revolution began during the imperialist war, at a time when the laboring masses, exhausted by the war and thirsting for peace, were by the very logic of facts led up to the proletarian revolution as the only way out of the war. | | | The revolutions in France in 1848 and 1871 came to grief chiefly because the peasant reserves proved to be on the side of the bourgeoisie. |
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| | The first step of the proletarian revolution in Russia was to "raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class" by establishing consistent and full democracy, or, as Lenin put it in March 1919, "the seizure of power in the cities and the establishment of the Soviet form of government". | | | This was the only policy that was revolutionary and Marxist." (V.I. Lenin, The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky, November 1918) | | | And as Lenin later noted in The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky, the Soviet government came into being on the basis of rural soviets that united the peasants in general. |
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| | Declaration of RIM |
| | From this reality flows the Leninist view, confirmed by history, that the world proletarian revolution is composed essentially of two streams - the proletarian-socialist revolution waged by the proletariat and its allies in the imperialist citadels and the national liberation, or new democratic revolution waged by the nations and peoples subjugated to imperialism. | | | The October Revolution was the living confirmation of Lenin's vital development of the Marxist theory of the proletarian revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat. | | | This tendency would negate the experience of the dictatorship of the proletariat in the Soviet Union, eliminate Stalin from the ranks of proletarian leaders, and in fact, attack the basic Leninist thesis on the nature of the proletarian revolution, the need for a vanguard party and the dictatorship of the proletariat. |
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| | Third Anniversary of the Russian Revolution |
| | To sum up, the third anniversary of the Russian Proletarian Revolution coincides with the process of the rapid revolutionary rallying of the working class masses in all countries and foreshadows the forthcoming unfolding of the world-wide proletarian revolution and the triumph of the proletarian dictatorship throughout the world. | | | After the 1917 October Revolution when all the power passed into the hands of the Workers' and Peasants' Soviets, the trade unions ceased to be organizations fighting against capitalist exploitation, which was dealt a mortal blow by the proletarian revolution. | | | Deeply umbued with the ideas of communism, they felt it their duty to take the lead in the international revolutionary rallying of the trade union movement in all countries under the banner of the Third Communist International and in the name of the Communist revolution and of the world-wide proletarian dictatorship. |
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| | Declaration of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) |
| | From this reality flows the Leninist view, confirmed by history, that the world proletarian revolution is composed essentially of two streams - the proletarian-socialist revolution waged by the proletariat and its allies in the imperialist citadels and the national liberation, or new democratic revolution waged by the nations and peoples subjugated to imperialism. | | | The October Revolution was the living confirmation of Lenin's vital development of the Marxist theory of the proletarian revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat. | | | This tendency would negate the experience of the dictatorship of the proletariat in the Soviet Union, eliminate Stalin from the ranks of proletarian leaders, and in fact, attack the basic Leninist thesis on the nature of the proletarian revolution, the need for a vanguard party and the dictatorship of the proletariat. |
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| | Circular of the CC of thc CPC on the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution |
| | All this serves to place restrictions on the proletarian left, to impose taboos and commandments in order to tie their hands, and to place all sorts of obstacles in the way of the proletarian cultural revolution. | | | In short, the outline opposes carrying the socialist revolution through to the end, opposes the line on the Cultural Revolution pursued by the Central Committee of the party headed by Comrade Mao Tse-tung, attacks the proletarian left and shields the bourgeois right, thereby preparing public opinion for the restoration of capitalism. | | | Our country is now in an upsurge of the great proletarian Cultural Revolution which is pounding at all the decadent ideological and cultural positions still held by the bourgeoisie and the remnants of feudalism. |
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| | VENEZUELA: WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY PERMANENT WORLD REVOLUTION? : IMC-SA |
| | This Marxian postulation of permanency for the proletarian or workers' revolution... | | | The bourgeois revolution, being consummated by peasants and workers would henceforth take on a proletarian character, at least in the cities, by virtue of the forms of struggle adopted. | | | In their opinion a socialist revolution would not be feasible in Russia, given its uneven development, since a highly developed capitalism would be the necessary pre-condition for any revolution. |
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| | Elections: Chapter 4 |
| | Thus, Chairman Mao with the proletarian cultural revolution, as a continuation of the revolution under the proletarian dictatorship, deepened and grandly developed the fundamental question of socialism and the dictatorship of the proletariat. | | | On the other hand, proletarian revolutions, like those of the nineteenth century, criticize themselves constantly, interrupt themselves continually in their own course, come back to the apparently accomplished in order to begin it afresh, and deride with unmerciful thoroughness the inadequacies, weaknesses and paltriness of their first attempts. | | | Chairman Mao Tse-tung, in his elevation of Marxism to a new, third and superior stage, has extraordinarily developed scientific socialism as the theory and practice of the revolution, principally with his unfading development of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. |
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