The objection was made to Lenin’s theory of organisation that through its exaggerated centralisation it would prevent the development of internal party democracy. But this objection is a confused one.
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Marxism
Organisational theory, democratic centralism and soviet democracy
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Marxism
Sociology of economism, bureaucratism and spontaneity
30 December 2003, byWhen we emphasised that Lenin’s concept of organisation in reality represents a concept of the current potential for proletarian revolution, we already touched upon the central factor in the Leninist theory of proletarian, class consciousness: the problem of the definition of the revolutionary subject under capitalism.
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Marxism
Scientific intelligentsia, social science and proletarian class consciousness
30 December 2003, byThe massive reintroduction of intellectual labour into the process of production brought about by the third industrial revolution, which was foreseen by Marx and whose foundations were already laid in the second industrial revolution, has created the prerequisite for a much broader layer of the scientific intelligentsia to regain the awareness of alienation which it had lost.
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Marxism
Historical pedagogy and communication of class consciousness
30 December 2003, byOnce it is understood that the Leninist theory of organisation tries to answer the problems of the current potential for revolution and of the revolutionary subject, this theory then leads directly to the question of historical pedagogy, i.e., the problem of transforming potential class consciousness into actual class consciousness, and trade-unionist consciousness into political, revolutionary consciousness.
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Revolutionary organizing
1983: Vanguard Parties
28 December 2003, byWhat do marxists really mean by ’vanguard parties’? How are they built?
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Revolutionary History
1971: Rosa Luxemburg and German Social Democracy
1 January 2003, byThe real place of Rosa Luxemburg has still to be located precisely in the history of the revolutionary movement. The disintegration of the Stalinist monolith has meant that, while many have acknowledged her merits, they have hastened to add that "she belongs to the pre-1914 epoch". Ernest Mandel explains myth and reality about Rosa Luxemburg.
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France
Operation "Bullshit Unlimited"
12 September 2002, byOnly yesterday, French intellectuals overflowed with compassion. From Bosnia to Chechnya, by way of Kosovo, on every front of the new world disorder. Their silence before the imperial crusade in Afghanistan and before the criminal policy of the Sharon government in Palestine is all the more deafening. This inglorious resignation is not, alas, unrelated to the relative weakness of the anti-war mobilizations in France, compared with the demonstrations that have taken place since 7 October 2002 in most big European countries.
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Brazil
Principles flouted
12 September 2002, byBrazil’s Workers’ Party (PT) has, in the course of the past 20 years, developed a politics of class independence while accumulating a quantity of experiences in social struggles and municipal government, notably through ’participatory democracy’. These founding principles are being flouted in the run-up to the country’s presidential elections.
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Marxism
Leninism in the 21st century
16 November 2001, byDaniel Bensaïd central leader of the French Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire (LCR - French section of the Fourth International) spoke on ‘Leninism in the 21st century’ at the June ‘Marxism 2001’ event organised by the British Socialist Workers Party. IV spoke to him afterwards.
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Women and parties
The Feminist Challenge to Traditional Political Organizing
23 March 1997, by“The purpose of this report is to look at the challenges to and criticisms of traditional political organizational forms, primarily those made by the women’s movement but also by other social movements, and consider whether they are well-founded or not.”
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