Of an ideology of state communism? did it.? does it now have consequences? yeah, absolutely. i think that one of the reasons why you can read, you can hear in the news of bombs falling on lviv, lvov, where my father was born. it s not in the sort of front line, obviously, because it s in different parts of poland, but different part of ukraine. just for people who don t know, lvov in poland, that s where your father was from, where your grandfather was prosperous, became part of the soviet union, and then later now in ukraine. absolutely. so, i think that one of the reasons for that is because the soviets were on the winning side and never had to ask themselves any questions. you know, one of the first documents that came out of the first personal folder that i picked up on my desk when i began this book was my grandfather, alfred, who was involved in the nuremberg trials, had a copy of the indictment of the nuremberg defendants. as you can imagine, that s quite a powerful document, to hold in your hands.
This book provides first-hand documentation of events in the Soviet Union when the Civil War was ending and Bolshevik regime was consolidating its position. The author was an American anarchist of Russian origin deported to Russia in 1919. The book is based on his diaries written between 1919-21.
Written by ex-Black Panther turned anarchist Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, Anarchism and the Black Revolution is both an easy-to-read introduction to the fundamental principles of class struggle anarchism and an analysis of their relevance to the black liberation movement. Also contains a good section on why the author is an anarchist and why non-class struggle anarchists are useless.
Original publication: Marxisme en staatscommunisme; Het afsterven van de staat. – Amsterdam: Groepen van Internationale Communisten, 1932. – 18 p. A 1932 pamphlet hard to find in English, in which the Group(s) of International Communists (GIC) criticise Lenin's 'The State and the Revolution.' Part of this text was integrated into 'Basic principles of communist production and distribution'.
This book provides first-hand documentation of events in the Soviet Union when the Civil War was ending and Bolshevik regime was consolidating its position. The author was an American anarchist of Russian origin deported to Russia in 1919. The book is based on his diaries written between 1919-21.