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13 November, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 10 original documents from the history of early American Marxism focusing mainly on the early Communist Party .
“What Revolutionary Socialism Means,” by Carl D. Thompson [Oct. 1903] Very explicit exposition of the term “Revolutionary Socialism” by a leading figure in Victor D. Berger’s Social Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Rev. Thompson quotes Karl Kautsky at length to “settle” his assertion that “revolutionary Socialism” has no connection to violent overthrow of the state, but is rather a synonym for “scientific Socialism”—meaning one who believes in the use of “the independent political party to capture the powers of government by a hitherto oppressed class as a means of securing Socialism.”
To Our Russian Comrades! by Eugene V. Debs [Nov. 7, 1918] Short salute from the Socialist Party of America’s most popular leader to the Russian Soviet Republic and its Bolshevik leadership in commemoration of the first year of the regime’s existence.
Lenin -- An Appreciation by Louis C. Fraina [Nov. 7, 1918] Article from a magazine published by the Socialist Publication Society of Brooklyn in commemoration of the first anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Class Struggle co-editor Louis C. Fraina provides a well-informed synopsis of the significance of V.I. Ul’ianov (N. Lenin) as a Marxist thinker and revolutionary leader.
(4) “Leon Trotsky,” by Ludwig Lore [Nov. 7, 1918] Article from a magazine published by the Socialist Publication Society of Brooklyn in commemoration of the first anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Class Struggle co-editor Ludwig Lore provides an absolutely invaluable account of the ten month tenure of Leon Trotsky in New York—Lore crediting Trotsky and his fellow Russian expatriates with a leading role in the establishment of an organized Left Wing faction in the Socialist Party. The list of the Russian luminaries who assembled in a Brooklyn apartment together with American revolutionary socialists is impressive: Trotsky, Bukharin, Kollontai, Vorovsky... While Bukharin advocated the immediate formation of a new organization with its own official organ, his proposal was defeated, Lore says; instead Trotsky’s idea to establish a Left Wing bi-monthly theoretical magazine as an initial step was accepted—the end result being the magazine The Class Struggle.
The White Terror. (Unsigned Reportage from The Toiler, May 21, 1921). News report from the semi-legal press of the United Communist Party detailing assorted acts of police illegality and malfeasance. Lead importance is given to the arrest of Abraham Jakira, Israel Amter, and Edward Lindgren of the UCP on April 29, 1921—arrests made without warrant.
The American Foreign-Born Workers by Clarissa S. Ware [Early 1923] Full text of a pamphlet published early in 1923 by the Workers Party of America. Clarissa Ware worked in the WPA’s Research Department; this is her only publication as she died later in 1923.
Lenin by John Pepper [Circa late January 1924] V.I. Ul’ianov (N. Lenin) died on January 24, 1924, and the nature of politics within the Communist movement was instantly altered. A new word entered the lexicon -- “Leninism”—and a mad scramble took place within the leadership of the Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) to define themselves as the most dedicated adherents of this new -ism and to thus wrap up in the mantle of authority of the departed Soviet leader.
For the United Front of Labor! A Call to Action by the Workers Party: To All Labor Unions, All Organizations of the Working Farmers, the Farmer-Labor Party, the Socialist Party, the Proletarian Party, the Socialist-Labor Party, and the Industrial Workers of the World. [Early 1924] Full text of a four page leaflet produced by the Workers Party of America in an attempt to unite the various political organizations of the American left in a single united front against the “one common enemy -- the employing class.”
“> Speech on Bolshevization of the American Party to the Organizational Conference of the Communist International, Moscow, March 18, 1925 by William Z. Foster Beginning March 15, 1925, a conference was held in Moscow, chaired by Osip Piatnitsky, dedicated to the restructuring of Communist Parties around the world on the basis of “factory nuclei”—so-called “Bolshevization.”
Speech
at the 5th Plenum of the Enlarged Executive Committee of the Communist
International: Second Session, March 25, 1925 by Grigorii Zinoviev. The
head of the Communist International states his perspective on the evolving
international situation, attempting to stake out a middle position between
the erroneous views of the “prophets of collapse” and “the
worshippers of stabilization.”
[Thanks to Tim
Davenport]
13 November 2005: Added to the Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) Reference Archive:
Waiting for a Genius (March 1919)
Medicine (April 1919)
Tomorrow (June 1920)
An Incident (July 1920)
My Old Home (January 1921)
Village Opera (October 1922)
[Thanks to Mike B. and coldbacon.com]
11 November 2005: Added to the Auguste Blanqui Archive:
First issue of
“Le Libérateur”, 1834
[Thanks to
Mitch Abidor]
10 November 2005: Added to the New Sylvain Maréchal Archive:
The
Festival of Reason, 1793
[Thanks to Mitch
Abidor]
10 November 2005: Added to the French Communist Party Archive:
Fight Without Cease for Bolshevization, Albert Treint 1924
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
9 November, 2005: Added to the Chinese Language Section of the MIA at 49 new documents:
Marx
Capital Volume III The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Reflections
of a Young Man on The Choice of a Profession (1835-8)
Critique of
Hegel’s Philosophy of Right(1843)
Theses On Feuerbach
(1845)
The German Ideology
(with Engels) (1845-1846)
Letter from Marx
to Pavel Vasilyevich Annenkov (1846-12-28)
China
revolutionizes with Europe revolutionizes (1853-5-31)
A Contribution to the
Critique of Political Economy Preface (1859)
Opium trade history
(1858-8-3and 9-3)
Speech by Marx to the
First International Working Men’s Association, June 1865 Value, Price and
Profit
Marx To Ludwig
Kugelmann (1868-7-11)
The Civil War in
France (1871)
Critique of the Gotha
Programme (1875-4)
Marx to Domela
Nieuwenhuis (1881-2)
Peasant uprising and
Taiping revolution(?)
Conspectus of
Bakunin’s Statism and Anarchy (1874)
Zheng Chaolin:
memoirs of Zheng
Chaolin vol 1 (1900-1919)(1996)
memoirs of
Zheng Chaolin vol 2 (1919-1931)(1945)
Paul Sweezy:
Again discussed (or
little discusses) the globalization (1993)
speech in Mao Zedong
born at the 100th anniversary s(with Harry Magdoff) (1993-12-11)
"Communist Manifesto"
in present age (1998)
Engels:
The Condition
of the Working Class in England (1845-3-15)
The Principles
of Communism (1847-6-9)
Apropos Of
Working-Class Political Action Reporter’s record of the speech made at the
London Conference of the International Working Men’s Association, September
21, 1871 (1871-9-21)
Dialectics method [ A
], [ B ] two parts of notes (1873)
Preparation material
of Anti-Dühring (1873)
Work in from
ape’s to human transformation in function (1875)
Dialectics of Nature.
Frederick Engels (1883)
Anti-Dühring by
Frederick Engels 1877 Original Preface (1878-6-11)
The Origin of the
Family, Private Property and the State (1884-3)
Ludwig Feuerbach
and the End of Classical German Philosophy (1888)
Engels to C.
Schmidt (1890-8-5)
Engels to J.
Bloch (1891-9)
Engels to C.
Schmidt (1890-10-27)
Engels to Franz
Mehring (1893-7-14)
"Discusses Russian
the Social Question" the postscript (1894-1)
Engels to
Borgius (1894-1-25)
Introduction to
Karl Marx’s The Class Struggles in France 1848 to 1850 (1895-3-6)
Lenin:
The Collapse of the
Second International (1915-5)
The Proletarian
Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky (1918-10)
About people’s
commune’s lecture
Mao Commemorates
the Paris commune the vital significance (1926-3-18)
[Thanks to Gao, Lam and the Chinese language section
volunteers]
6 November, 2005: Added to the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line’s section: Toward a History of the Fourth International is a 1946 article from Fourth International, [New York]:
Report on the Fourth
International Since the Outbreak of War, 1939-48
[Thanks to Daniel Gaido]
6 November, 2005: The Early American Marxism Archive in the USA History section of the MIA has added the following 10 original documents from the history of early American Marxism focusing mainly on the early Communist Party’s relationship with the Communist International and the USSR. There has been another bit of restructuring; the Language Federation histories are much more useable now and the front page looks a little cleaner with revised graphics. Thanks are due once again to Andy Blunden for writing the javascript for a scrolling menu for the Federation histories.
The Future by Eugene V. Debs [July 16, 1898] Letter from the former head of the industrial American Railway Union and leading participant of the Social Democracy in America to the members of the newly-formed Social Democratic Party of America. Debs gives his wholehearted blessing to the new political organization.
No Impossibilism for Us! by Victor L. Berger [September 1906] A succinct philosophical manifesto of the “constructive” Socialist political philosophy, originally published as an editorial in the Social- Democratic Herald by that paper's editor, Victor L. Berger. Berger declares war upon “IWW element of our party,” of which he says that “most of whom are as ignorant as they are fanatical and hypocritical.”
The Secret of Efficient Expression by Eugene V. Debs [July 8, 1911] Asked by the Education Department of the University of Wisconsin to participate in a study of oratorical “fertility and efficiency of expression, ” Socialist Party agitator Eugene V. Debs responds with an autobiographical essay on the men who shaped his conception of an orator— Patrick Henry, John Brown, Wendell Phillips, and Robert Ingersoll— and his path of self-education.
Decision of the National Executive Committee on the Finnish Controversy [Dec. 13, 1914] From 1913 through 1915 a severe factional struggle raged in the Finnish Federation of the Socialist Party, brought about when the constructive socialist leadership of the Eastern District won control of the Executive Committee of the Federation and editorial control of the radical organ of the Middle District, Työmies. The left wing of the federation withdrew their support of Työmies and established a new daily newspaper called Sosialisti.
Report to the National Executive Committee by Adolph Germer [circa January 1, 1917] Written report of the National Executive Secretary of the Socialist Party of America to the members of the National Executive Committee sent just prior to the January 6-7, 1917 NEC meeting in Chicago. Germer provides the 1903-1916 party membership series, numbers which indicated that the party's membership slide from the time of the 1912 Convention had been halted, although the miniscule increase was called "far from satisfactory in view of the campaign activities.”
A New Appeal by John Reed [January 18, 1919] Substantial essay by famed journalist John Reed about the state of the Socialist Party and the task of the revolutionary socialist movement in America. Reed sees a dichotomy in the ranks of the SPA -- "American” members of the petty bourgeoisie and intellectuals and “Foreign-born" workers and intellectuals.
A Left Wing— And Why: A Satatement of Cause and Effect by N.S. Reichenthal [March 12, 1919] A lengthy and intelligent letter to the editor of the New York Call seeking a measured and open-minded approach to the emerging Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party. Reichenthal states that he is neither with the Left Wing and the “state within a state” in the Socialist Party nor a blind, epithet-spewing “loyalist.”
The 1923 Foster Trial: The Reports of the WPA Press Service [March 12 to April 10, 1923] The Workers Party of Society Press Service covered the nearly month-long trial of William Z. Foster in St. Joseph, Michigan exhaustively, sending out reports of each day's events to the party press. Only a fraction of this material was ever published in the weekly English-language organ, The Worker, the bulk being translated and run in the non-English daily press of the WPA. This 21-page document collects all 25 of these reports for the first time and provides what now stands as the best single blow- by-blow account of the landmark Foster “Criminal Syndicalism” case.
On the Foster Trial by Grigorii Zinoviev [circa March 29, 1923] With Secretary of the Trade Union Educational League William Z. Foster embroiled in a trial for “criminal syndicalism” over his participation in the August 1922 Convention of the Communist Party of America at Bridgman, MI, head of the Communist International lends his support with this article in the press.
Monster Political Convention of The Workers of America, Chicago, July 3,
1923. Every Local Union, Central Body, Farm Organization, State,
National, and International Body and Political Group Invited. A Chance at
Last for Bringing About United Action of The Workers of Hand and Brain on
the Political Field. [Circa May 1923] Convention call of the Farmer-Labor
Party of the United States (J.G. Brown, Secretary) to a July 3, 1923
gathering in Chicago called for the purpose of “devising means for
knitting together the many organizations in this country in such a manner as
will enable the workers to really function politically.”
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
5 November, 2005: Opened Karl Liebknecht in the Portuguese-language section, with:
Rezem e
Atirem, 1912
[Thanks to Alexandre
Linares and Fernando Araújo]
4 November, 2005: Opened Karl Kautsky archive in the Portuguese-language section, with:
Um Elemento
Importado de Fora, 1901
[Thanks to
Alexandre Linares and Fernando Araújo]
4 November 2005: Added to the Louise Michel Archive:
Kanak Legends and Chants de Gestes, 1882-85
A complete
new translation of the study by Louise Michel, hero of the Paris Commune,
of the language, customs and mythology of the Kanak people, written while
she was in exile in New Caledonia.
[Thanks to
Mitch Abidor]
3 November, 2005: Added to the Joseph Hansen Internet Archive:
Trotskyism and the Cuban
Revolution: An Answer to Hoy, October,
1962.
[Thanks to Andrew Pollack]
3 November 2005: Added to the New Maximilien Rubel Archive:
Marx, theoretician of
anarchism, 1973.
The
Dictatorship of the Proletariat, 1976.
The ethical work of Karl
Marx, 1982.
2 November, 2005: Added to the Arabic Section:
Lenin’s Archive:
To the Rural
Poor
The
Right of Nations to SelfDetermination
On
the National Pride of the Great Russians
The Discussion On SelfDetermination Summed
Up
The
Question of Nationalities
Also added: Alexandra Kollontai’s
Archive:
Our Tasks
Also: Additions toWhat’s
Marxism? section Reconstruction and additions toEncyclopedia of Marxism
section
[Thanks to Tamer and Abd el
Karim]
2 November, 2005: Opened Enver Hoxha Archive in the Portuguese-language section, with:
O
Imperialismo e a Revolução, 1978
[Thanks to
Fernando Araújo]
2 November, 2005: Added to the Workers’ International News Archive:
The Turning
Point Approaches (1940)
ILP Easter
Parade (1940)
Transport
Housemaids (1940)
Testing Time in
France (1940)
British Labour and
India (1940)
Belgian Comrades
Under Fire (1940)
Repression in
France (1940)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
2 November, 2005: Added to the Ernest Mandel Internet Archive:
The Strategic Orientation of the
Revolutionists in Latin America, 1970 (with Martine Knoeller)
Letter to the PRT (Combatiente),
1972 (signed by Ernest, Livio, Pierre, Sandor, Tariq & Delphin)
Some Fundamental Differences Between
the PRT and the International Majority, 1973 (signed by Ernest, Livio, Pierre,
Sandor, Tariq & Delphin)
[Thanks to David Walters &
Einde O’Callaghan
2 November 2005: Added to the Chinese Section:
Capital,
Volume 2, Karl Marx, 1867
Capital,
Volume 3(part 1) , Karl Marx
[Thanks to Guo and
the Chinese language section volunteers]
1 November 2005: Added to the Proudhon Archive:
Letter to
Several Workers in Paris and Rouen, 1864
[Thanks to
Mitch Abidor]
1 November, 2005: Added to the New International Archive (1947-1958):
The Marxist
Movement in Ceylon, Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India (1947)
Stalinism
and the Colonies, Dispute Between Lanka Sama Samaj and the Workers
Party (1947)
Stalinism and the
Colonies: A Reply to Comrade Henry Judd, by Lanka Sama Samaj
(1947)
Who
Controls India’s Economy? by Asoka Mehta (1951)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
1 November, 2005: Added to the Henry Judd (Sherman Stanley) Internet Archive:
Stalinism and the
Colonies – Rejoinder to the LSSP (1947)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]