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February 2021
External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles:
Turn of the year 2020/2021
External links to interesting historical/theoretical articles:
- Free download (PDF) of Lo
spillover del profitto. Capitalismo, guerre ed epidemie.
A.o. Philippe Bourrinet, "11 Capitalismo, guerre ed epidemie".
- C.Mcl., Has
Capitalism entered its Decadence since 1914? The
Falsehoods of the International Communist Current (ICC) — A
Critique. Followed by a discussion.
- Elaborado por Anibal, Tres
textos sobre la cuestión de la decadencia del capitalismo.
- Libro Ediciones inter-rev. La
ideología de la comunización como tergiversación del comunismo
e inadecuada respuesta a las dificultades.
- Anibal and Materia,
Period of transition, socialism, communism. Based on a
recent book published in Spanish language, as a second edition
of the book “Against the tide”, including new parts, and
correcting and changing others because the authors have studied
new texts.
- Elaborado por Anibal,
Otto Rhüle sobre organizacion, partido, sindicato,
centralismo, táctica, etc. Followed by a discussion with
Michael Meer (also in English).
- Ediciones inter-rev. (Elaborado por Anibal)
Historia efectiva, historia imaginaria. Mujeres,hombres,
clases, estados, división del trabajo, dinámicas sociales,
producción,reproducción, derechos.
- Gabriel Teles & Rubens Vinícius,
Elementos para una crítica Marxista hacía el Leninismo,
also in
English translation, followed by a critique (Anibal).
November 2020
Interesting external links of the month:
October 2020
Interesting external links of the month:
- Chuang, 24-9-2020: Scaling
the Firewall, 1: #LiftTheBucket, ("first of a new series
of investigations into Chinese social media, compiling
information on trends in social phenomena"), ENGLISH.
- Annoucement book publication: Lo
spillover del profitto - capitalismo, guerre ed epidemie,
editor
Colibrì edizioni, ITALIAN.
- Ph. Bourrinet,
An Introduction to Anton Pannekoek: Marxism and Darwinism
(1909, 1914), October 2019, ENGLISH.
- Ph. Bourrinet,
Affaire
Polanski et Affaire Dreyfus, à propos d'un article d'Echanges
et Mouvement, ("An article that would have been better
left under the bushel"), FRENCH.
September 2020
Interesting external links of the month:
July 2020
- Group of International Communistst (GIC), Theses
on Revolutionary Workplace Nucleus, Party, and Dictatorship
(1931), first translation into English (2020)
- Gruppe von Internationalen Kommunisten (GIK), Thesen
zu revolutionaren Betriebskernen, Partei und Diktatur
(1931), Zugriff zu Arbeiterstimmen, first translation into
German (2017)
- Groep van Internationale Communisten (GIC), Stellingen
omtrent revolutionaire bedrijfskernen, partij en dictatuur
(1931), link naar arbeidersstemmen.nl, transcription of Dutch
original
June 2020
- Willy Huhn, Lenin
als utopist (1948) in Dutch language, see below for German
original and English translation
LEFT WING COMMUNISM, NOT an infantile disorder, our
new site in construction, invites to a discussion
on council communism and the revolution in Russia, starting
from Wagners 'Theses'. We have added documents on the historical
context and a biography:
Annoucement by aaap.be:
May 2020
- Willy Huhn, On the doctrine of the revolutionary party (1961),
translated into English and published in three parts, A Free
Retriever's Digest, part
1, part
2, part 3: in Vol.
4 Issue #1.
- Translated from German: Willy Huhn, Zur
Lehre von der revolutionären Partei, 1948 (signaled here
before).
- F.C., An
answer to “Questions without answers”. Anti-critique of
a leftist book review of The Dutch and German Communist Left
(1900-1968), website A Free Retriever's Digest.
February 2020
Some
recent books on the period of transition
We
draw your attention to some recently published books by an
author and publisher, who is new to the milieu interested in
the Communist Left: Hermann Lueer and publisher Red &
Black Books in Hamburg. When giving introductions to
Marxism throughout Germany, Lueer was regularly asked about
the alternative to capitalism. In search of an answer, Lueer
discovered Grundprinzipien kommunistischer Produktion und
Verteilung by Gruppe Internationaler Kommunisten
(G.I.K.) of 1930.
In
his homage to the work of the G.I.K. under the same title,
Lueer gives a current introduction to the actual core of the
work of the G.I.K.: how can the 'association of free and equal
people' (Marx in Capital), or in his 1871 writings
about the 'Commune'-organization, or how in 1917 the 'council
organization' can gain and, above all, retain power over the
means of production? After all, in Russia the workers soon
lost power over the enterprises.
The
answer lies in the fact that reformism in social democracy
ignored Marx' and Engels' view, particularly in Marx' Critique
of the Gotha Programme, of an economy with working hours
as a measure of production and, initially, also consumption.
Instead, reformism accepted Hilferding's view, which suggested
that in socialism economy should be organized as a General
Cartel, the organizational form of highly developed
capitalism, i.e., controlled by economic specialists. Lenin
took over this view and realized it in Russia, with which the
dictatorship over the proletariat was a fact.
Lueer's
tribute to the work of the G.I.K. is now available in three
languages: German,
English
and Dutch.
Lueer's
tribute does not address various criticisms since the
republishing in 1970 of the first edition in German in 1930.
Especially that of Paul Mattick in his introduction to this
reprint, followed by Gilles Dauvé and finally Raoul Victor.
Victor's text of 2016 'in response to Kees' under the title The
Economy in the Transition to a 'Communist' Society (*),
served the German-speaking group Freundinnen und Freunde
der klassenlosen Gesellschaft as a starting point for
their discussions of 21-3-2018: Umrisse
der Weltcommune. On the group's website, Kosmoprolet,
a discussion was published, including Lueer's contribution Kritik
von Hermann Lueer an den Thesen zur Weltcommune
(20-1-2019). It is typical of the quality of this discussion
contribution that Kosmoprolet was forced to ask Victor for a
position, which appeared as Arbeitszeitrechnung
und ökonomische Rationalität in einer postkapitalistischen
Gesellschaft (4-11-2019). It is curious to see that the
reply by Lueer, Antwort
an Raoul Victor, was not posted on the Kosmoprolet
website until now, nor has been it included in the book KLASSE,
KRISE, WELTCOMMUNE. Beiträge zur Selbstabschaffung des
Proletariats with all other contributions. It seems
therefor that Victor does not have an answer, and certainly
not the Freunde as an organization, while it is clear
from other contributions to the discussion that some do share
the views of the G.I.K.
Hermann
Lueer has meanwhile published the first German
translation of the Dutch second edition of Fundamental
Principles in book form: Grundprinzipien
kommunistischer Produktion und Verteilung, and its first
English translation:
Fundamental
principles of communist production and distribution.
These
translations are of great significance. As explained in The
G.I.C. and the Economy of the Transition Period -
Introductory Article, the 1935 second edition in Dutch
was supplemented with fragments in reply to certain critics
and misunderstandings. Amongst others, the supposed 'utopian
character' of the propositions of the G.I.K., the question of
'equality', on the dictatorship of the proletariat, and on
libertarian communism. Important information on the agrarian
question in the Russian and in the German Revolution was
added. This edition was the last edited by the G.I.K. and
therefor is its final answer to the objections at the time
raised against its positions.
(*)
Originally in
French, 12-10-2011. For an answer, not from Kees, see Over
het scherm rolden ... (June 2016) third contribution (in
Dutch), English
translation.
November 2019
- Anton Pannekoek, Marxisme
et darwinisme, traduction de l’allemand, édition et
notes (octobre 2019): Philippe Bourrinet. Avec une
introduction critique de 14 pages du traducteur et éditeur.
- Spartacus, Weekblad van de Communistenbond ‘Spartacus’,
1947, Trotski
en de vakvereniging.
October 2019
September 2019
July 2019
May 2019
- F.C., The G.I.C. and the economy of the transition period, part
1, part
2, links to A Free Retriever's Digest - An
internationalist Articles Selection & Review.
- F.C., Le G.I.C. et
l’économie de la période de transition. Une introduction.
- F.C., Die GIK und die
Ökonomie der Übergangsperiode. Eine Einführung.
- F.C., De GIC en de
economie van de overgangsperiode. Een inleiding.
- Bernhard Reichenbach, Contribution
à l’histoire du KAPD, Leipzig, 1928.
March 2019
- Ph. Bourrinet, The
Workers’ Councils in Germany 1918-23 (Part 2) link to A
Free Retriever's Digest - An internationalist Articles
Selection & Review
- F.C.,
The G.I.C. and the economy of the transition period, part 1,
part
2, links to A Free Retriever's Digest - An
internationalist Articles Selection & Review
- Two
articles by Anton Pannekoek in ‘Arbeiterpolitik’,The
outcome of the struggle, and International
Communism in No. 5 (Feb.1, 1919). Link to A Free
Retriever's Digest
- A
Letter from Comrade Pannekoek, on the ‘Unionen’ Question
and ‘National Bolshevism',‘Der Kommunist’, KAPD, July 1920.
Link to A Free Retriever's Digest
- Willy Huhn, Zur
Lehre von der revolutionären Partei, 1948
December 2018
- Ph. Bourrinet The
Workers’ Councils in Germany 1918-23 (Part 1) link to A
Free Retriever's Digest - An internationalist Articles
Selection & Review
- A. Pannekoek:
The outcome of the struggle (‘Arbeiterpolitik’, February
1st, 1919) see p. 17, link to A Free Retriever's Digest - An
internationalist Articles Selection & Review
- Ph. Bourrinet Le
mouvement des conseils en Russie & Finlande, Allemagne,
Autriche & Hongrie, 1917-1919
- Ph. Bourrinet Les
conseils ouvriers en Allemagne 1918-23 (paru dans Controverses
- Forum pour la Gauche Communiste Internationaliste)
- Ph. Bourrinet Arbeiterräte in Deutschland 1918-23
Teil
1, Teil 2,
Teil 3,
Teil 4
in "Arbeiterstimmen", ergänzt mit historischen Dokumenten
- Ph. Bourrinet De arbeidersraden in Duitsland
1918-23, deel
1, deel
2 (link naar Arbeiderstemmen)
- Anton Pannekoek, 1918: De
Duitse Revolutie (link naar Arbeiderstemmen)
- K. Horner (Ant. Pannekoek), 1920: De
Derde Internationale en de Wereldrevolutie (link naar
Arbeiderstemmen)
October 2018
April 2018
March 2018
- “Der Kommunist
- Flugzeitung der Kommunistischen Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands
(Sachsen)", ab Nr. 19, April 1920, Flugzeitung der
Kommunistischen Arbeiterschaft Ostsachsens”, ab Nr. 49,
Dezember 1920, Organ der Kommunistischen Arbeiterschaft
Ostsachsens und der Allgemeinen Arbeiter-Union Gross-Dresden
(Revolutionäre Betriebsorganisation” Nr. 53, Dezember 1920 Nr.
54, Januar 1921 Nr. 56, Januar 1921.
- Willy Huhn Lenin
und die russische Revolution.
January 2018
- Willy Huhn Lenin als
Utopist, sehe auch Buchbesprechung
Gester “Auf der Suche nach Rosas Erbe. Der deutsche Marxist
Willy Huhn (1909-1970)”, Berlin, Die Buchmacherei, 2017.
December 2017
November 2017
October 2017
September 2017
August 2017
June 2017
May 2017
April 2017
February 2017
- Lénine philosophe
par Anton Pannekoek ("John Harper"), 1938. Une édition
critique de Lénine philosophe de Pannekoek, basée sur les
versions anglaise, française et allemande. Ph. B. dans son
introduction souligne l’apport politique de Pannekoek dans sa
critique de Lénine mais aussi les faiblesses notoires de son
argumentaire philosophique.
- Fredo Corvo, book
review of Philippe Bourrinet “The Dutch and German Communist
Left (1900-68); ‘Neither Lenin nor Trotsky nor Stalin!”,
‘All workers must think for themselves!’”, Leiden/Boston
(Brill) ISBN 978-90-04-26977-4 .Also published on Libcom.org
and on Pantopolis,
both blogs where you can post comments.
- Anton Pannekoek "De
arbeiders, het parlement en het communisme" (GIC, 1933)
- Jean-Pierre Laffitte (traduction), Philippe Bourrinet
(révision, édition et notes)
‘Troisième’,
’quatrième’, nième Internationale ? ou Parti Communiste
Mondial?
Sténogramme du congrès public extraordinaire du KAPD, tenu à
Berlin du 11 au 14 Septembre 1921, Dresdner Garten.
- Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands ‘Außerordentlicher
öffentlicher parteitag der K.A.P.D.’ vom 11. bis 14.
September 1921 zu Berlin, Dresdener Garten.
January 2017
Nederlands:
English:
Deutsch:
Other languages: see Goldners site breaktheirhaughtypower.org.
December 2016
November 2016
- Frank Dingel Paul
Mattick 1904-1981 Biografie und Schriften in deutscher
Sprache.
- Philippe Bourrinet La
sinistra comunista italiana (1927-1952) contributo a una
storia del movimento rivoluzionario, Parigi nov. 2016, 2a
edizione.
- A.B. Soep "Nationalisme of internationalisme? (Met
een onuitgesproken rede voor het congres van de s.d.a.p.,
april 1915)" / A.B. Soep. – ’s-Gravenhage :
Verkrijgbaar bij drukkerij „De Arbeid”, Brouwersgracht 8,
[1915]. – 68 p. PDF's bij aaap.be: p. i-v;
p. 1-16;
p. 17-28;
p. 29-50;
p. 51-68.
Zie voor een biografie
van Soep bij het IISG.
- Adolf Dethmann Die
Sowjetregierung und die 3. Internationale im Schlepptau der
internationalen Bourgeoisie! (1921).
- Adolf Dethmann Le gouvernement
soviétique et la IIIe Internationale à la remorque de la
bourgeoisie internationale! (1921) avec appendice
Congrès extraordinaire public du K.A.P.D. du 11 au 14
septembre 1921 à Berlin, Dresdner Garten, Interventions du
rapporteur Dethmann, GHA du KAPD, sur «la nécessité de la
création d’une Internationale communiste-ouvrière»
- [Adolf Dettman] De sowjet-regering en de derde
Internationale op sleeptouw der internationale bourgeoisie
/ , uit het Duits [door Herman Gorter]. – [Amsterdam : Uitgave
der Kommunistische Arbeiderspartij (k.a.p.) in Nederland,
1922. – 39 p. Bij aaap.be p.
1-19, p.
20-39
- Der Kampf der Arbeiter; Sieben Aufsätze aus
der Leipziger Volkszeitung / Ant[on]. Pannekoek. – Leipzig :
Leipziger Buchdruckerei Aktiengesellschaft, 1907. PDF der
Originale in gothischer Schrift bei aaap.be: Teil
1,Teil
2, html
bei marxistst.org.
October 2016
- Announcement by publisher Brill: Bourrinet The
Dutch and German Communist Left (1900–68) ‘Neither Lenin nor
Trotsky nor Stalin!’ - ‘All Workers Must Think for
Themselves!’ (external link), invaluable and unpayable.
- Anton Pannekoek Bolsjewisme
en democratie (1918).
Anton Pannekoek "Bolschewismus
und Demokratie - Vortrag, gehalten vor der Ortsgruppe
Neumünster der Internationalen Kommunistischen Partei / Von
Anton Pannekoek", erschienen in Arbeiterpolitik, 3.
Jg., Nr. 50, 14. Dezember 1918, S. 303-304 1918, 1919 als
Broschüre von der Kommunistischen Partei Deutschösterreichs,
und 1919 in Wien bei der Verlagsgenossenschaft “Neue Erde”.
Als html
bei marxists.org.
- Ph. Bourrinet ‘Gramscisme’
et ‘Bordiguisme’ - Le sens d’une confrontation politique
hier et aujourd’hui, version 2-10-2016.
September 2016
- Marxism
and state communism. The withering away of the state -
G.I.C. 1932.
Pamphlet never translated into English before, the Group(s)
of International Communists critising Lenin 'The State
and the revolution.'
Part of this text was integrated into 'Basic principles of
communist production and distribution'.
August 2016
- In dutch language only: Anton Pannekoek "Friedrich
Adler" 1916 (met een inleiding "individueel terrorisme
of proletarische massastrijd tegen de imperialistische
oorlog?"). Ajoute en francais:
"A mettre en parallèle avec un texte de Bordiga, qui lui
soutient l’action terroriste de Friedrich Adler... «Fritz
Adler, notre camarade, de ceux que nous connaissons et aimons,
qui a adhéré à Zimmerwald, qui a reproduit à la main le
Manifeste de la minorité socialiste autrichienne lu par
beaucoup d’entre nous non sans larmes d’émotion et
d’enthousiasme… Ce n’est pas un fou, pardieu ! … Son acte fut
le corollaire de sa – de notre – campagne internationaliste.
Le fait est une propagande plus efficace que les mots…
Friedrich Adler est des nôtres. Il appartient au prolétariat
international, dont il est devenu le symbole». Bordiga,
«Adler», L’Avanguardia, 5 novembre 1916, in Scritti..., op.
cit., p. 290-291."
Traductions de l’allemand, édition, illustrations, notes et
texte d’introduction.
July 2016
June 2016
April 2016
- Ph. Bourrinet Un siècle
d’un courant internationaliste : la gauche communiste
d’Italie (1915-2015) 24-4-2016
- Anton Pannekoek World Revolution and Communist Tactics,
1920. Text edition aaap.be
- Anton Pannekoek The New Blanquism, 1920. Text
edition Marxists.org
- Anton Pannekoek, Weltrevolution und kommunistische Taktik,
1920. Textversion Marxistst.org.
PDF von Orginal: Umschlagbild,
S.1-16,
S. 17-26,
S. 27-45,
S. 46-52
(Nachtrag)
- Anton Pannekoek, Der neue Blanquismus, 1920. Textversion Marxists.org.
- Anton Pannekoek Theorie en beginsel in de
arbeidersbeweging (1906), hyperlinks naar tekstversie marxists.org,
orginele scan aaap.be.
- Anton Pannekoek ‘Het
nieuwe Blanquisme’ (1920).
- Ph. Bourrinet Pathologie
sectaire dans la gauche communiste de la forteresse assiégée
à l’écroulement de la Baliverna / version 7-4-2016.
March 2016
December 2015
October 2015
Mai 2015
April 2015
March 2015
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