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February 6, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from John Riddell's Marxist Essays and Commentary — The Communist International (or Comintern) was founded in Moscow in 1919, with the goal of helping to extend the socialist revolution that had taken place in Russia across Europe and around the world.   The Russian Communist (Bolshevik) party that had led in establishing Soviet power was respected in the International as a prime source of strategic and tactical guidance. Yet the Comintern’s statutes did not accord any primacy to the Russian Communist Pa...

EDWARDS, Marvin Henry (Mickey), Congress, OH (1937) EDWARDS, Marvin Henry (Mickey), Congress, OH (1937) EDWARDS, Marvin Henry (Mickey), a Representative from Oklahoma; born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, July 12, 1937; attended the public schools; B.A., University of Oklahoma, 1958; J.D., Oklahoma City University Law School, 1969; admitted to the Oklahoma bar in 1970 and commenced practice in Oklahoma City; newspaper reporter and editor, 1958-1963; engaged in advertising and public relations, 1963-1968; magazine editor, 1968-1973; author; special legislative consultant, Republican Ste...

January 7, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from John Riddell's Marxist Essays and Commentary — Many socialist groups today seek to shape their organizational principles in the spirit of “democratic centralism” identified with V.I. Lenin. Yet as historian Lars Lih has demonstrated (“Fortunes of a Formula” and “Further Fortunes of a Formula”), Lenin himself used the term only occasionally, and then with widely varying emphasis. The formula’s meaning for socialists today is in fact derived mainly from its application by the Communist Inte...