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Forum: Theory Today, 15:27
Replies: 52
Views: 1,379
Posted By Ismail
State ownership by itself has nothing to do with...

State ownership by itself has nothing to do with socialism. After all China has plenty of state enterprises, and private property, in legal terms, was quite minor in the USSR under Soviet revisionism...
Forum: Literature & Films Today, 11:00
Replies: 37
Views: 866
Posted By Ismail
I suggest you email him if you're curious. As it...

I suggest you email him if you're curious. As it stands we have the unambiguous words of a guy who has not only assisted in uploading Soviet texts online, but for 10+ years has been the head of the...
Forum: Literature & Films Today, 01:29
Replies: 37
Views: 866
Posted By Ismail
I asked Andy Blunden of Marxists.org and he...

I asked Andy Blunden of Marxists.org and he confirmed what I already figured:


So far the Marx bio is winning by one vote. Voting ends in two days.
Forum: History Yesterday, 22:02
Replies: 376
Views: 15,821
Posted By Ismail
I fail to see how that's Russian chauvinism....

I fail to see how that's Russian chauvinism. Lenin likewise praised Russian culture while denouncing Great Russian chauvinism. See: http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/dec/12a.htm

It...
Forum: History 18th May 2013, 18:47
Replies: 2
Views: 305
Posted By Ismail
Yes, Hoxha's analysis of Mao's works led him to...

Yes, Hoxha's analysis of Mao's works led him to conclude that Maoism was anti-Marxist, while an analysis of China in general led him to conclude that 1949 was a bourgeois-democratic revolution, not a...
Forum: Literature & Films 17th May 2013, 22:40
Replies: 37
Views: 866
Posted By Ismail
Kalinin's work is online:...

Kalinin's work is online: http://sovietlibrary.org/Library/Union%20of%20Soviet%20Socialist%20Republics/1950_On%20Communist%20Education_M.%20Kalinin_FLPH_1950.pdf

You can find various 1920's-40's...
Forum: Theory 17th May 2013, 14:04
Replies: 52
Views: 1,379
Posted By Ismail
And yet apparently "the SPGB aims to achieve...

And yet apparently "the SPGB aims to achieve socialism by wresting control of the state through the democratic process."

So basically the SPGB is going to manage the bourgeois state in a...
Forum: Theory 17th May 2013, 11:35
Replies: 52
Views: 1,379
Posted By Ismail
Sounds like Khrushchev and the rest of the Soviet...

Sounds like Khrushchev and the rest of the Soviet revisionists: make bourgeois laws and whatnot "genuinely democratic" through supposed working-class control.

Marxists smash the bourgeois state,...
Forum: Literature & Films 16th May 2013, 09:09
Replies: 37
Views: 866
Posted By Ismail
Lenin's Collected Works that you see on...

Lenin's Collected Works that you see on Marxists.org (http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/cw/) and Marx2Mao (http://marx2mao.com/Lenin/Index.html) are by Progress Publishers. Considering...
Forum: History 16th May 2013, 08:39
Replies: 9
Views: 328
Posted By Ismail
Some of the most copious materials denouncing the...

Some of the most copious materials denouncing the PCE came from right-wing PSOE leaders who alleged that calls for unity between the two parties were an attempt by the former to completely dominate...
Forum: History 16th May 2013, 08:30
Replies: 9
Views: 328
Posted By Ismail
That was probably the best (and most important)...

That was probably the best (and most important) thing about it. It ironed out social-democratic and nationalist holdovers, attacked the racism of the early CPUSA and SACP, etc.

I've never heard a...
Forum: History 16th May 2013, 08:06
Replies: 9
Views: 328
Posted By Ismail
Considering that the Trot narrative also includes...

Considering that the Trot narrative also includes the Comintern parties being "controlled by Moscow" by the time it was dissolved, and that Comintern policy led to the defeat of the Chinese and...
Forum: Learning 15th May 2013, 19:39
Replies: 11
Views: 413
Posted By Ismail
Also, Hoxha speaking to Albanians who had left...

Also, Hoxha speaking to Albanians who had left their country in the 20's or 30's and revisited: "How greatly this Albania of ours has changed! True, the time has been short and we do not boast about...
Forum: Learning 15th May 2013, 19:30
Replies: 11
Views: 413
Posted By Ismail
For reference: "With the fall of Communism...

For reference:

"With the fall of Communism schoolhouses were often see as symbols of the regime and therefore destroyed. The virulent revival of blood feuds, which a hapless central authority...
Forum: Literature & Films 15th May 2013, 07:21
Replies: 37
Views: 866
Posted By Ismail
Provide a link if so, since there's a specific...

Provide a link if so, since there's a specific page for Marx biographies on MIA and it is not among them.
Forum: Literature & Films 15th May 2013, 06:45
Replies: 37
Views: 866
Posted By Ismail
The USSR no longer exists, nor do the publishing...

The USSR no longer exists, nor do the publishing houses in question except Nauka, of which I only have one book from them and I seriously doubt anyone would do anything over an English translation of...
Forum: Learning 15th May 2013, 06:35
Replies: 11
Views: 413
Posted By Ismail
Because Albanian materials never used "Hoxhaist"...

Because Albanian materials never used "Hoxhaist" to describe their ideology. They always used Marxism-Leninism. Unfortunately so did the Soviet revisionists, the Chinese, the Cubans, the Yugoslavs,...
Forum: History 15th May 2013, 06:28
Replies: 18
Views: 366
Posted By Ismail
"Unlike other Communist countries, Albania...

"Unlike other Communist countries, Albania progressively reduced the socalled private plots of collective farmers to about 10,000 square feet, less than one-quarter of an acre." (Jacques, The...
Forum: History 14th May 2013, 21:43
Replies: 18
Views: 366
Posted By Ismail
By this you mean Hoxha's paranoia of two...

By this you mean Hoxha's paranoia of two competing imperialist superpowers, both invading countries that didn't follow their dictates, and both of which tried to overthrow the Albanian government...
Forum: History 14th May 2013, 19:57
Replies: 18
Views: 366
Posted By Ismail
Not a bad decision considering that Albania was...

Not a bad decision considering that Albania was in a state of war with Greece. It becomes even more understandable when Albania withdrew from the Warsaw Treaty in protest of the Soviet invasion of...
Forum: Literature & Films 14th May 2013, 19:37
Replies: 37
Views: 866
Posted By Ismail
The post-1956 view of the Trotskyists and...

The post-1956 view of the Trotskyists and Bukharinists was basically frozen in 1928. Party histories called them opportunists, capitulators, etc., while the Moscow Trials with their charges of many...
Forum: Literature & Films 14th May 2013, 17:59
Replies: 37
Views: 866
Posted By Ismail
ABBYY FineReader turns scanned images into a...

ABBYY FineReader turns scanned images into a single PDF file. It allows for said PDF to be searchable, meaning that what you see is a scanned image, but beneath it is OCR'd text. Grenzer doesn't use...
Forum: Literature & Films 14th May 2013, 17:55
Replies: 37
Views: 866
Posted By Ismail
.... I just said Grenzer scanned it, not me....

....

I just said Grenzer scanned it, not me. I own the "sequel" work, dealing with the post-October period.
Forum: Literature & Films 14th May 2013, 17:43
Replies: 37
Views: 866
Posted By Ismail
I've had no problems with it. Even if the OCR...

I've had no problems with it. Even if the OCR quality sucked (it's been fine in my experience) you still get the actual scanned images.

Also here's that 1969 work on the Bolsheviks vs. Trotsky...
Forum: Literature & Films 14th May 2013, 17:38
Replies: 37
Views: 866
Posted By Ismail
ABBYY FineReader 11.

ABBYY FineReader 11.
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