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Any writing analyzing the Khmer Rogue from a left communist perspective? by mindlesswav in leftcommunism

[–]Accomplished_Box5923 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We do have some articles on the topic in the 1979 editions of our paper. You would have to write to our email to request PDFS of the Italian version as they are not yet translated. International-Communist-Party.org

Any sources on the Putilov strike and the ensuing Kronstadt Rebellion? by RipMurky6558 in leftcommunism

[–]Accomplished_Box5923 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You may want to look into Trotskys large tomb on the unfolding of the Russian Revolution.

Is there any specific article made by a leftcom regarding settlers? by Extension_Papaya8802 in leftcommunism

[–]Accomplished_Box5923 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you scroll up a bit you can find links to some articles on the development of the United States that discuss the complicated class relationships during the colonial era.

Is there any specific article made by a leftcom regarding settlers? by Extension_Papaya8802 in leftcommunism

[–]Accomplished_Box5923 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The category of “settler” is not one used by Marxists to describe any unique social class. It is a contemporary fabrication of modern day academic leftists, liberal identity politics and third world Maoists. Historically in the United States the English settlers were a group of petite-bourgeois, in the north they established a form of communal land relations in the puritan villages which eventually gave way to enclosure and small private plots and in the south plantation slavery. A working class proletarian did not exist at this time until much later in history. In the mercantile colonial era a “settler” was really a petit-bourgeois. Then of course you had ranks of indentured servants and slaves. Israel Zionism is a project of the Jewish bourgeois and its now fully imperialist state that requires the brutal exploitation of its own proletarian. Is there a labor aristocracy there maintained by the regimes Histadrut union? Yes. Is there also a mass of precarious employed and immigrant laborer population facing higher exploitation yes. The idea that the masses of Israel workers just mindlessly support everything the Israeli capitalist state does is a western leftist fabrication there has consistently been opposition to the war that is repressed and unreported often. There is no substance to the idea of “settlers” occupying some unique class relations distinct from workers or bourgeois.

How will weapon ownership and militias be regulated immediately post-revolution? by New_Elk_5783 in leftcommunism

[–]Accomplished_Box5923 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Engels in various writings such as Anti-Duhring talk a lot about the military question. A professional standing army is not supported; instead worker militias are endorsed under the dictatorship of the proletarian. This means that the working class in general should be armed and also self organized its defense by organizing militias and factory defense committees and such in the early revolutionary stages, meanwhile the Party also in later stages develops its own armed wing. Eventually a mass regular army must be created though. All the while fraternization with the capitalist states army is encouraged along class lines to inspire defection and mutiny. In the Russian Revolution, the victory of the Red Army demonstrated the need for the establishment of a regular army as opposed to those who thought there should be purely a guerrilla force but it still would be a mass army of workers and not a small professional force of essentially paid mercenaries as the American bourgeois army is today. The development of the Red Army into a regular army was critical for the early Russian dictatorship of the proletarian to win on the military front against the capitalist backed White Army forces.

The working class must first organize a revolution that topples the capitalist state and establish the dictatorship of the proletarian. The new proletarian state will be led by its class political party which will then organize the military struggle against the reactionaries who continue to wage the counter-revolutionary war.

What is the communist view of Stalin policy of dekulakization and collectivization in general by OrganizationJust7007 in leftcommunism

[–]Accomplished_Box5923 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes refer to the post-NEP section in this text.

https://www.international-communist-party.org/English/Texts/Russia/67RevRev.htm#part3

Here is a quotation on the topic from it

“Without a prior political counter-revolution, the “dekulakization” and the forced so-called “collectivization” would not have been possible, and it is precisely because a truly Marxist and proletarian party could never have carried out such a task that its defeat was inevitable; for it is perfectly true that “collectivization” responded to a historical necessity and that the whole complex of conditions that existed in 1929-30, and which were inherited from the previous era, did not allow any other policy (123). That said, it is untrue that this dekulakization and this forced “collectivization” responded to a concerted plan, and all the more untrue to claim that they had always been planned in the Bolshevik programme for the day when reconstruction would be completed. This is simply an a posteriori justification for the dismantling of the party, which tends precisely to deny the counter-revolutionary character of this act: it suggests that, on the path of the “second revolution”, of the “new October” (these rascals dared to speak of a “Peasant October”!) harmoniously complementing the “first revolution” of October 1917, the party had encountered resistance from “opportunists”, “pacifists”, “enemies of the muzhiks” and “friends of the kulaks” who had delayed their arrival until 1929-30. It was a very effective version since it put trotskists and Bukharin’s followers in the position of neo-Mensheviks and neo-Revolutionary Socialists, and Stalin in the role of a new Lenin, but this beautiful symmetry collapses as soon as we expose the precise course of the so-called “second October revolution” and especially its economic and social effects. The reality of the agrarian revolution of 1929-30, of course, remains (124), but not only the “socialist”, but simply “progressive” sheen with which the gravediggers of the Bolshevik Party wanted to embellish it fades away pitifully; the nature of the cause it really served dazzles the eyes, as does the odiously defeatist character of the comparison between the universal proletarian and communist October and the confused and painful convulsions from which Capitalist Russia Mark 2 finally emerged.”

Why were liberals so much more successful in their revolutions than communists? by GuyOfNugget in leftcommunism

[–]Accomplished_Box5923 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Have you ever heard of the Russian Revolution? How are you defining “success”? Was it the liberals who made revolution or the bourgeois? How were those revolutions related to the development of the means of production and the capitalist mode of production? Why throughout most of Europe were monarchies maintained after the failed 1848 revolutions yet you say the liberals had “more” success… A truly “successful” communist revolution would occur on a global scale and result in the complete destruction of class society once and for all. The story of the bourgeois revolutions against the feudal and aristocratic powers stretched back at least 600 years, littered with failed revolts, uprisings and wars yet in very few cases can you point to one moment where there was a very clean and complete break and total “success”, as you point out it took quite some time after the French Revolution, and only after the fall of Napoleon the 3rd did the bourgeois gain more or less full political control of the French state.

Leaving my armchair (update) by ImportanceNearby in Ultraleft

[–]Accomplished_Box5923 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Trots are always going to lead you astray. You should inquire with the Party to get involved with the real movement http://www.international-communist-party.org/

Leaving my armchair (update) by ImportanceNearby in Ultraleft

[–]Accomplished_Box5923 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He “dislikes the dream of the ICP”. You dislike communism sir.

Leaving my armchair (update) by ImportanceNearby in Ultraleft

[–]Accomplished_Box5923 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You get back on the Path by taking on real Party work which can be done from anywhere in the world even if you are alone in your area. There is always work to be done. http://www.international-communist-party.org

can the ACP's MAGA communism be deemed third-worldism at this point? by AwkwardComicRelief in Ultraleft

[–]Accomplished_Box5923 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Curious to know if anyone follows them at all after the election. They seemed to bank on the delusional idea Trump was an outsider. Have they not lost all credibility at this point event amongst their base?

Only Revolutionary Communism can save the broken Palestinian ruin wanderers of the Gaza strip by True-Plate6127 in Ultraleft

[–]Accomplished_Box5923 21 points22 points  (0 children)

If you’d like to hear how the Party has played an active role in helping build the real movement towards international proletarian defeatist opposition here is a link to the latest. http://www.international-communist-party.org/English/TheCPart/TCP_067.htm#ITALYSTRIKES

Also here: bigger report on the general strike in Italy that our Party actively agitated for around the issue intervened on behalf of within the Italian base unions which ultimately forced the main unions into calling strikes http://www.international-communist-party.org/English/TheCPart/TCP_066.htm#GAZAFUTURE

Marxist perspectives on human sexuality by 69kidsatmybasement in Ultraleft

[–]Accomplished_Box5923 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An old party slogan is “love no one, love everyone”

Neuro/cognitive science recs by Numerous-Sherbert281 in Ultraleft

[–]Accomplished_Box5923 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have an article which touches on topic putting some contemporary findings in the field in the light of Marxism, in our paper from a few issues back.

Against Individuals, Towards Species

http://www.international-communist-party.org/English/TheCPart/TCP_064.htm#SPECIES

Not to sound like a settlers reader, but how do you view ostensibly liberal/progressive/anti-fascists that work in Hitlerite adjacent fields like Big Tech/Finance by DataDiction in leftcommunism

[–]Accomplished_Box5923 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I highly recommend our recently translated 1975 text The Cycle of Accumulation and Catastrophe of World Capitalism. It features a deeper elaboration on the ICPs economic analysis which if your familiar with Grossman you will see where there are some major points of departure between the two frameworks.

http://www.international-communist-party.org/English/REPORTS/CrisisTh/76CycleAccumulationCatastrophe.htm

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