Paul Le Blanc
Paul Le Blanc on Barry Sheppard’s memoirs: Revolutionary redemption, lessons for activists
Barry Sheppard in 1964.
By Paul Le Blanc
[Click HERE to follow the entire debate on Lenin.]
By Paul Le Blanc
April 5, 2012 -- Weekly Worker, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- I would like to respond to two problematical contentions advanced by Pham Binh in his article ‘Wanting to get Lenin wrong’ (Weekly Worker, March 29, 2012). One of these contentions is about my motivation for disagreeing with his interpretation of Lenin’s thought, and the other has to do with a historical question -- when the Bolsheviks became a separate party. This is part of an extended debate having to do with history and politics (Lenin and the Bolsheviks; tasks facing socialists today). My own contributions touching on these questions can be found at http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/579.
Paul Le Blanc: Why Occupy activists should read the greats of revolutionary socialism
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Lenin: 'democratic, socialist and revolutionary'
March 1, 2012 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal – Fifty key figures on the left including Ian Angus,
The Lenin wars: Over a Cliff with Lars Lih
Nadezhda Krupskaya and Lenin wi
Lars Lih: Falling out over a Cliff
Click HERE to follow the entire debate on Tony Cliff's Lenin. For more discussion on revolutionary organisation, click HERE.More articles by Lars Lih are available at http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/500.
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Remarks on the 1905 Congress and the 1912 conference of the Russian Social Democratic Worker Party (RSDWP)
By Lars T. Lih
Paul Le Blanc: Revolutionary organisation and the ‘Occupy moment’
Occupy Pittsburgh, October 15, 2011.
Five points in response to Pham Binh
By Paul Le Blanc
"The creation of healthy, democratic and cohesive revolutionary organisations on the Leninist model is both possible and necessary, in my opinion."
February 1, 2012 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- I am sorry that Pham Binh has chosen to respond in the way that he has to my criticism of his article ("Mangling the party: Tony Cliff's Lenin"). I will make only a few comments here to help clear up misunderstandings.
1. My critical comment about Pham’s article not providing us with anything useful for those engaged in today’s struggles was not a judgment about him as a person or about all things that he may have written about the Occupy movement or anything else. A substantial review article having to do with building the revolutionary party, however, should contain (in my opinion) something of value for those of us who are committed to such things.