Soviets
An October for Us, for Russia and for the Whole World...
Published at November 6, 2007
IT IS NO surprise that the imminent 90th anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia has become the object...
Do we need Marxism? Marxism and Stalinism
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
In my previous article on Alexandr Buzgalin and his time, the Perestroika turned Katastroika (https://www.defenddemocracy.press/aleksandr-buzgalin-and-his-time-the-soviet-russian-tragedy/) I put the question if Marxism is...
What Was Lenin Thinking?
By Tariq Ali
April 3, 2017
LONDON — What was Vladimir Lenin thinking on the long journey to Petrograd’s Finland Station in 1917?
Like everyone else, he...
Socialisme et autogestion (Contribution à une esquisse des fondements de la...
Par Michel Paptis
L'autogestion est devenue synonyme de la démocratie socialiste, c'est-à-dire du régime qui caractérise la société de transition succédant au capitalisme. On ne...
Seeking Robespierre
Yellow Vests: The search for a “collective Robespierre”, for a new Incorruptible!
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
03/14/2019
Article two of three (Read the first article here)
“We need time,”...
The French Anti-Neoliberal Revolution. On the conditions for its success
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
11/1/2018
The magazine Le Point is one of the main media outlets of the French conservative “centre-right”. One of its December issues carries...
John Reed: How the Soviets were really functioning in the beginning
Soviets in Action
First Published: October 1918 in The Liberator
Transcription/Markup: Revolutionary History/Brian Baggins
Online Version: John Reed Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2000
Through all the chorus of abuse...
Bolsheviks Seize Power
Subject essay: Lewis Siegelbaum
The Bolshevik seizure of power in Petrograd in October 1917 was celebrated for over seventy years by the Soviet government as...