Left wing communism

Category: Trotskyism


What Lenin borrowed from Hilferding

Capitalist crisis, valorization, imperialism as theorized by Marx, Engels, Kautsky, and in particular Lenin – Hilferding Spanish Contents Hilferding and Lenin suffered from simplifications and distortions when they developed their notorious idea of financial capital. This article will confront this idea with Marx’s analysis of the development of the financial…

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Avec Lénine et Trotski : Pour ou contre la guerre ?

Sur “une deuxième conférence non publique de groupes principalement trotskistes et léninistes qui s’est tenue récemment en Italie” Par Aníbal et Fredo Corvo Spanish, Italian, English Effets des thèses du bolchevisme : certaines en faveur des causes bourgeoises et d’autres…

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With Lenin and Trotsky: For or Against war ?

On “a second non-public conference of mainly Trotskyist and Leninist groups held recently in Italy” By Aníbal and Fredo Corvo Spanish, Italian, French Effects of the theses of Bolshevism: some in favor of bourgeois causes and others with open weaknesses…

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Michel Roberts and his Leninist biases. How not to understand what imperialist capitalism is and to confuse about it

By Aníbal Spanish Michael Roberts edited an article on dependency theory, a theory that was very influential especially in Latin America. Michael Roberts comments on a book edited by Claudio Katz (La teoría de la dependencia después de cincuenta años.La…

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Imperialist capitalism. Pros and cons of an article from Prospettiva Marxista (Italy)

Spanish Several critical comments are necessary regarding the article WHEN WAR WILL BE REALLY WORLDWIDE (Prospettiva Marxista – March 2024) This article contains several valid and appropriate statements about imperialist capitalism and the various forms of warfare it engenders. It…

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When war becomes truly worldwide

By Prospettiva Marxista Spanish Even vis-à-vis the topic of war the trend of the bourgeois ideological vulgate, when observed over no small span of time, tends to be nonchalantly discordant, again a prisoner of the “eternal present.” From the ideological…

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National liberation movements and capitalist imperialism

– Leninism, neo-Leninism, and the German-Dutch communist left – Spanish Introduction We have defended the positions and theoretical developments on this question in various texts based on the German-Dutch communist left. In this text we focus on a neo-Leninist expression…

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Internationalist Perspective and other followers of Minassian cum suis

Misguiding theses and their political consequences By Aníbal and Fredo Corvo Spanish Internationalist Perspective (IP) has published an internal debate on the IP leaflet on Gaza. More precisely than ‘internal debate’, we should say a sectarian debate. This debate started…

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AWW and Communaut caught in Trotskyism, with no way out?

German, Spanish AWW recently translated into English a second discussion paper on organizing from the German Communaut: “Dilemma With No Way Out? – Continuation of the organizational debate”: https://www.angryworkers.org/2024/01/31/dilemma-with-no-way-out/After some searching, I found the German original on Communaut’s site: https://communaut.org/de/organisationsdebatte….

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Quale lotta contro la guerra? Differenze attuali e storiche con il leninismo / trotskismo

Di Fredo Corvo e Aníbal Spanish / English Da quando è scoppiata la guerra in Ucraina dopo l’invasione russa, e ancor più dopo l’attacco di Hamas a Israele e il bombardamento israeliano della Striscia di Gaza, è stato evidente, anche…

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War in the Middle East. To entangle or disentangle oneself from Leninism?

By Aníbal and Fredo Corvo Italian, Spanish Prospettiva Marxista – Círculo Internacionalista “coalizione operaia”  published the 180 pages pamphlet “Palestina 2023 – una battaglia per la chiarezza internazionalista” (Palestine 2023 – A Battle for Internationalist Clarity), December 2023. In the…

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What struggle against the war? Current and historical differences with Leninism / Trotskyism

By Fredo Corvo and Aníbal Italian, Spanish Since the eruption of the war in Ukraine after the Russian invasion, and even more so after Hamas attacked Israel and Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip, it has been obvious, even to…

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