Most of the left has embraced the peace slogan in a thoroughly pacifist manner. Marxists, of course, prefer peace to war, but, as Jack Conrad explains, with us that goes hand in hand with making propaganda for the establishment of a popular militia
Stalin asked, "So you think my truth needs improvement?" "The truth," Radek replied, "can’t be improved. The truth is true, or it is not. But a line of…
Nick Heath on the wave of rebellions and uprisings of rank-and-file Russian workers and peasants across the country in 1919-1921 against the Bolsheviks, who were consolidating their grip on power. Contrary to the Bolsheviks' claims, these rebellions were not reactionary but in fact in support of the original aims of the revolution: socialism, and workers' and peasants' self-management. Taken together they can be referred to as a Third Revolution.
Rosa Luxemburg commence à militer à 16 ans, au sein du Parti du prolétariat de la Pologne russe. En 1893, elle fonde avec son compagnon Leo Jogiches le Parti social-démocrate du royaume de Pologne, avant de devenir membre actif et influent du Parti social-démocrate allemand et du bureau de la II
e Internationale.
En 1898, elle se fait connaître en croisant le fer avec Eduard Bernstein, leader du courant révisionniste au sein du mouvement socialiste. A l’idée d’une transformation graduelle et pacifique du capitalisme, Rosa Luxemburg oppose la nécessité d’une rupture révolutionnaire, seule voie de passage au socialisme. Cela ne l’amène toutefois pas dans le camp de Lénine et du bolchevisme. Alors que, dans
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