2014年11月21日 · They do not deduce Stalinism from Bolshevism as a whole but from its political sins. the Bolsheviks – according to Gorter, Pannekoek, certain German “Spartacists” and others – replaced the dictatorship of the proletariat with the dictatorship of the party; Stalin replaced the dictatorship of the party with the dictatorship of the ...

To understand Bolshevism, and in a narrower sense Stalinism, it is not enough to follow the superficial and often silly controversies between Stalinists and Trotskyites.

George Novak, in his introduction to Trotsky’s pamphlet Stalinism and Bolshevism, makes the claim that Lenin’s Bolshevik party represented the working class “in its striving for equality, democracy and Socialism” while Stalin’s regime merely represented a bureaucracy which seized power after Lenin’s death.

2010年1月13日 · The aim of his latest book on Trotsky is to prove that Bolshevism leads to Stalinism and totalitarianism. Here Rob Sewell sets the record straight and explains the huge gulf that divided genuine Bolshevism from the monster of Stalinism that was built on the physical destruction of the Bolshevik party.

2005年12月16日 · The following essay by Daniel Bensaid represents a critical re-evaluation of Trotsky’s well-known pamphlet Stalinism and Bolshevism (1937) [1]. It was written for the magazine Erre, published by supporters of the Fourth International in Italy.

Bringing together leading authorities and cutting edge scholars, this collection re-examines the defining concepts of Stalinism and the Stalinization odel. The aim of the book is to explore how the common imperatives of a centralized movement were …

2021年7月1日 · We analyse one of Trotsky’s most prominent pieces, ‘Stalinism and Bolshevism’, in which he is extraordinarily frank about the way in which Bolshevism degenerated into Stalinism, but also defends his ideology fervently.

Is Stalinism the legitimate product of Bolshevism? Marxism found its highest historical expression in Bolshevism. Under the banner of Bolshevism the first victory of the proletariat was achieved and the first workers' state established. No force can now erase these facts from history.

2021年12月29日 · The Bolsheviks’ vanguardism and statism made them blind to the creative potential of democratic workers’ organisations, intolerant of other working class political forces and ruthless in silencing dissent, perhaps different choices in 1921 would have made possible different types of resistance to the reimposition of exploitative class ...

2010年11月19日 · Trotsky associated both aspects of Stalinism with the phenomenon of bureaucratism, understood as the growth of bourgeois influence within Soviet political institutions.