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	Idiot Quotient
		He is one of the relatively few contemporary German writers and thinkers on the left who consider themselves pro-Israel and have developed a left-wing critique of the anti-globalization left in today's Europe.
		He spends part of each year in Kurdistan where Wadi has founded the first shelter there for women in distress and is also involved in helping the local government reform the prison system that has been left over from Iraqi rule.
		In fact, people in Kurdistan are now starting to reflect on the mass immigration of Kurdish Jews in the 1950s when 99 percent of the Jewish community left mostly to Israel.
	www.idiotquotient.blogspot.com /2002_10_06_idiotquotient_archive.html

	Levy/Lahr: Review - New York Intellectuals
		By 1937, when both Rahv and Phillips broke openly with the Stalinists, the Partisan Review had gathered around it most of the anti-Stalinist left and Trotskyists who are the subject of Wald’s book, and provided a central point of literary and cultural polemics.
		The rise of the US anti-Stalinist left was linked to the general rise of the left, the growth of industrial unionism and the rise of the CIO.
		I remember from 1937 going weekly to the Independent Labour Party bookshop at 35 St Bride Street, because only there could one get material that wasn’t Stalinist or Stalinist approved.
	www.marxists.org /history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol2/no2/wald.html

	What we say: The man who told unpalatable truths: George Orwell and today's l Workers' Liberty
		The root source of the corruption of the “left” in Orwell’s time was the Stalinist ruling class in Russia which presented itself as “communist” and argued that the defence of their interests was the proper first concern of workers all over the world.
		Apart from a few unteachable pickled-in-the-lies old Stalinists, most people who think of themselves as being of the left, for example the Socialist Workers Party, also see Orwell as a hero.
		These “anti-fascists” suppressed the workers who had seized power in Catalonia and set up a Stalinist-bourgeois police state in the anti-fascist Republican areas.
	www.workersliberty.org /node/view/1070

	Glossary of People: Pa
		International Secretary of Fourth International after War; developed theory of "centuries of deformed workers states", and advocated liquidation of Trotskyist Parties in favour of forming left-wing of Stalinist Parties; left FI after 1963 re-unification; later Minister in Ben Bella's government in Algeria.
		Naturally, it was on this basis that Pashukanis was attacked by the Stalinists, who believed in increasing the power of the state and thus the rule of law, and in building up a gigantic bureaucracy around a myriad of rules and regulations.
		Sylvia attended the Second Congress of the Communist International in August 1921, where she identified herself as part of the Left.
	www.marxists.org /glossary/people/p/a.htm

	The "Russian Question" Remains
		As the old anti-Stalinist Left long ago noted, anti-Semitism was endemic to Stalinism; not a social "aberration" or an "excess" but something that oozed out of the pores of the totalitarian ruling Party, contaminating all levels of society.
		Here, too, some chroniclers of the Old Left -- more accurately of the old socialist left -- dismiss the concentration on the Russian Question in an unseemly offhand manner as the hallmark of Talmudic sectarians preoccupied with the recondite minutiae of Russian history.
		We of the American Left know that these are largely illusions not that different from the false hopes of the vast numbers who, earlier in the century, sought refuge in the U.S., a haven to escape repression and grinding poverty.
	www.wpunj.edu /icip/newpol/issue18/jacobs18.htm

	fin-arkiv
		Disappointed by the experience of social democracy and encouraged by the development of the anti-capitalist movement, they are ready to look further left.
		There are numerous significant radical left forces in the world, from various historical and ideological origins, which are actively seeking channels of international exchange and collaboration with other anti-capitalist forces.
		It would, however, be a major mistake to reduce the processes of left realignment currently underway to these shifting relationships among currents on the far left.
	www.fin-arkiv.blogspot.com /2002_06_30_fin-arkiv_archive.html

	AddALL.com - New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930'2 to the 1980's
		New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930'2 to the 1980's
		AddALL.com - New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930'2 to the 1980's
		It is enriched by more than one hundred personal interviews as well as critical interpretations of novels and short stories depicting the inner life of the group.
	www.addall.com /detail/0807841692.html

	UK Indymedia 'Marxist' Grouplet Launches Homophobic Tirade at Gay Activists, Feminists
		But if we are to build an inclusive movement and a free society, we are going to have to challenge the remnants of the authoritarian left in our meetings, demo's and actions.
		Another left wing group reports that they have a core of only three regular activists (Weekly Worker, 9.7.04).
		If you're interested in the left's debates though, you might be interested in a new row that has broken out over the Marxist treatment of gay people - the first for many years.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2004/07/295178.html

	TROTSKYIST BULLETIN NO. 8 - AFGHANISTAN & THE LEFT
		This mood simultaneously found external political expression when the New York contingent in the SL’s 1982 anti-Klan demonstration in Washington chose to call itself the “Yuri Andropov Brigade,” after the Stalinist butcher of the Hungarian Revolution.
		Just as we point out that unions can best be defended by replacing the present labor traitors with a revolutionary leadership, so we argue that only through the ouster of the Stalinist bureaucrats can the social advances embodied in the degenerated/ deformed workers states be consistently defended.
		The fundamental contradiction of the deformed and degenerated workers states is between the social base of the collectivized economies and the Stalinists’ paralyzing monopoly of political decision-making which introduces all kinds of distortions and irrationalities into the planning process, and thus constitutes a fetter on economic and social development.
	www.bolshevik.org /TB/tb8_2b_6.html

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Chomsky�s Smear of Horowitz an Expected Disgrace by Jamie Glazov
		Party Congress (in which Khrushchev denounced Stalin�s crimes), and the Soviet invasion of Hungary, Horowitz helped contribute to the flowering of the "New Left," which saw itself as anti-Stalinist.
		Horowitz has perceived that the roots of the New Left, in which Chomsky has his feet solidly planted, are the same ones shared by the Stalinist Old Left.
		After recognizing the perniciousness of the socialist idea, he demonstrated how it was the New Left�s project to rescue the Old Left -� without its Stalinist tinges.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=239

	Interactivist Info Exchange Salim Muwakkil, "Pro-War Progressives and the Anti-Stalinist Left"
		Salim Muwakkil, "Pro-War Progressives and the Anti-Stalinist Left"
		But several others, including comedian/commentator Dennis Miller, said they too were shocked rightward by the left's reflexive, "blame-America" reaction to 9/11.
		Until recently, he was a regular Nation columnist and one of the left's most gifted polemicists.
	slash.autonomedia.org /analysis/03/05/15/1645211.shtml

	Left and Vietnam War
		The Stalinist left believed that a small number of 'monopolies' or 'wealthy families' were opposed to the common interests of other classes in Australia.
		The concern of the Stalinist left to link foreign policy to material interests had, however, the implausible consequence of turning the conservative government into pawns of the United States.
		It shared some questionable but basic assumptions with the populist and Stalinist left about the political incapacity of the Australian ruling class.
	www.anu.edu.au /polsci/marx/interventions/leftvietnam.htm

	An analysis of the 1995 Draft Programme of the CPGB
		It is the commonality, despite appearances to the contrary, between Stalinist ideological concepts of ‘democracy’ and ‘socialism’ and those of the anti-Soviet social democrats, that means that it is not such a massive leap from one to the other as might be imagined.
		Ironically, despite the often monstrous totalitarian nature of the Stalinist regimes, the Stalinist perversion of these concepts has much in common with more run-of-the-mill bourgeois democrats within the labour movement, essentially the social democracy.
		However, it is true that under socialism, even such class-based repression will no longer be necessary, as there will be no enemy left to repress, the defeated bourgeoisie and its descendents having been absorbed into the associated producers, who will be struggling on an international scale to roll back the frontiers of "bourgeois right".
	members.aol.com /RevolutionTruth/cpgbcrit.htm

	Document Title
		The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Fall of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s
		"Postmodernism, the Left, and African-American Literature." Lecture to be delivered at SUNY-Buffalo, Spring 1998.
		Left Letters: The Culture Wars of Mike Gold and Joseph Freeman
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~ehrlich/eng-web/foleyvita.html

	Geometry.Net - Philosophers: Zizek Slavoj
		A mix of witless cultural commentary, political ignorance of staggering proportions, human insensitivity, anti-American prejudice, and a pandering to the gallery of the cultural "left", an audience that functions now only to reproduce the sophistry of the old Stalinist left using "Theory" instead of party catechism.
		It leaves one wondering whether, with intellectuals like Zizek taking up so much of the stage, is there any room left for a "center left" that does not spend its time sitting in front of a screen analyzing B-grade Hollywood movies and making fatuous moralizing pronouncements about the world?
		Zizek's document is reproduced here, interposed with comments I have made.
	www.988.com /philosophers/zizek_slavoj.php

	BBC's neo-Stalinist agitprop that defends the Cambridge Five
		Watson's ignorance and his indifference to the crimes of this squalid band of traitors draws attention to the extraordinary support that these Stalinists still derive from prominent leftists like Philip Adams.
		Why the left support the BBC's neo-Stalinist agitprop that defends treason
		Adams' appalling assertion that Lord Haw-Haw's treason was greater than Fuchs' demonstrates the left's contempt for the truth.
	www.brookesnews.com /030407adams.html

	14 August 2003 archive
		Detailed study of the origins of the neocons in the CIA / Foundation-funded anti-Stalinist left in the early Cold War era, from the perspective of the Old Right / libertarians, who have lately been strongly critiquing the neocons.
		It’s like a puppet show for the most part, nobody thinking for themselves or really wanting to face the facts objectively.
		"Newsmax is to the Right what the Nation is the Left, controlled opposition, never giving you more than half the truth.
	www.questionsquestions.net /topics/archive/updates/030814.html

	History of the FSP--Why We Left the Socialist Workers Party
		We denied the SWP characterization of the left wing of the anti-war movement as "Stalinist." We condemned their fearful refusal to proclaim clear support to the National Liberation Front and their super-cautious and outdated policy on the draft, which prevents effective opposition to it.
		We advocated a proletarian anti-war policy that would solidarize the party with the revolution in Vietnam, with working-class Negro youth who are the key victims of the draft, and with the radical wing of the anti-war movement.
		The party's policy in the anti-war movement had never been subject to rank and file discussion.
	www.socialism.com /library/leftswp.html (2947 words)

	The "Russian Question" Remains
		As the old anti-Stalinist Left long ago noted, anti-Semitism was endemic to Stalinism; not a social "aberration" or an "excess" but something that oozed out of the pores of the totalitarian ruling Party, contaminating all levels of society.
		Foster and Lovestone made the requisite pilgrimages to the Stalinist basilica in Moscow, each to plead his case before a court of Comintern Cardinals with the participation of the Pontiff, Josef Stalin.
		Stalin's "dear comrades" smacked of a mafia Capo's kiss of death, as it would soon be for tens of thousands of Soviet "dear comrades" murdered in the coming decade.
	www.wpunj.edu /~newpol/issue18/jacobs18.htm (2947 words)

	Reclaiming Sartre
		Ian Birchall's primary aim in Sartre Against Stalinism is to critically reclaim Jean-Paul Sartre for the anti-Stalinist left, in response to a variety of criticisms levelled at Sartre both during and after his lifetime.
		As Birchall points out, this skewed understanding of French politics is not helped by Sartre's refusal at various times to acknowledge that there were elements within the French left more left wing than the PCF.
		However, as a clear outline of Sartre's relation to the French left Sartre Against Stalinism is an interesting and informative read.
	pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk /isj102/pitt.htm (2947 words)

	Fascism in Germany today
		This is partly because the term is associated with the official anti-fascism of the stalinist east German state.
		But, in the west, it also gives legitimacy to the idea of an anti-fascist movement, as opposed to exclusively state initiated measures against right-wing extremism which Stöss and most of the BMI authors advocate.
		Knütter after an historical survey of right-wing extremism in the east and west of Germany, argues that prospects for right-wing extremism are negative for the moment (62).
	www.anu.edu.au /polsci/rick/fasger.htm (2947 words)

	Anti Nazi League expose. - Stormfront White Nationalist Community
		It was launched in Burnley in 2002 not long after the election of three councillors there as a counter-balance to the expected seige of the town from far-left outsiders looking to use Burnley to advance their Stalinist agenda.
		Contact them they may be able to help you on pdl@p-dl.org.uk The site is in its early days but it hopes to build up a comprehensive list of the so-called peaceful activities of the ANL and other associated front groups for extreme left wing dedicated to perverting the course of democracy.
		The claim to equality is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=89100 (897 words)

	Journal of Social History: National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931-1956
		Although Brandenberger's argument about the Stalinist roots of modern Russian nationalism is compelling on many levels, some readers may be left wondering why, if there was virtually no popular Russian nationalism before 1917, ordinary Russians so enthusiastically adopted the russocentric rhetoric of the Stalinist regime.
		The Russian masses, meanwhile, overlooked the nuances of Stalinist ideology and welcomed the new rhetoric as the outright promotion of Russian nationalism; for some, the shift even became a license to express chauvinist, xenophobic, and anti-Semitic views.
		The Stalinist leadership rehabilitated prerevolutionary military and cultural figures, while championing the Soviet state as the natural heir of the tsarist empire.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2005/is_2_38/ai_n9487454 (897 words)

	On the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army over Nazism Anti-Russian nationalism in the Baltic States Part one
		In their effort to prop up their rule through nationalism, today’s bourgeoisies in the Baltic states have been able to utilise the legacy of decades of betrayal by the Stalinist bureaucracy, from whose ranks many members of the countries’ current political elites are drawn.
		Latvia quickly followed Estonia’s example, as its elite was gripped by the fear of a leftward movement of the working class in response to events in Estonia and the protracted economic recession.
		The consolidation of bureaucratic rule by Stalin and the clique around him by the end of the 1920s, following the mass arrests of the Left Opposition in 1928, marked a major setback for the Soviet working class and for the world revolution.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/may2005/balt-m09.shtml (1848 words)

	Communism and the Left
		communism, all Communism, is Stalinist; Communism, all Communism, all Communisms, are "utter villainy." Here we have, in undiluted form, the political mentality that characterizes the place where Reader's Digest wisdom and the Russian émigré celebrities (but not Medvedev and Sakharov) converge, and that Sontag lauds at the expense of The Nation.
		Somehow, I had the impression that a critical attitude toward Communism had been "in" for some time, and that it was no longer necessary to affect a heroic posture while criticizing Communism.
		The centrality of a particularly fervent Catholicism to Solidarity is not an accident or an instance of cultural lag; and, in Russia, among those who are not cynics or merely demoralized, new converts to religious fundamentalism outnumber the liberals and democratic socialists a thousand to one.
	www.thenation.com /docprint.mhtml?i=19820227&s=sontag (6341 words)

	UCLA CEES: Eric Hobsbawm Speaks on His New Memoir
		People who were not in favor of the Soviet Union, who were anti-Stalinist, official Communist parties which condemned, for instance, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, bitterly, officially, the parties did, and consequently there was no particular reason why if you hadn't left after the immediate trauma of fifty-six you should necessarily leave afterward.
		And the Indian left split between those who remained loyal -- a minority -- to the Soviet Union, and the majority who claimed to be loyal both to Stalin, the memory of Stalin, and to Mao Tse-tung, the so-called Communist Party Marxist.
		It is perfectly true that parts of the left became dictatorial, authoritarian, tyrannical, and all the rest of it.
	www.international.ucla.edu /euro/article.asp?parentid=7315 (6341 words)

	Break Their Haughty Power Bourseiller Review
		Despite their later reputation, based on the anti-party councilism for which they became known after 1930, much of the German-Dutch left in the early 1920’s was quite in favor of a communist party, even if they rejected the Leninist party as articulated in What Is To Be Done?
		The left communists had counterparts in Russia, such as the small Democratic Centralist group or the Workers’ Group of Miasnikov, but these latter were never anything but isolated sects fighting a losing battle against the ebb of the world (and hence Russian) revolution.
		In this milieu, Trotskyists, anarchists, Bordigists, and council communists, particularly in the Gauche communiste de France and the Revolutionaere Kommunisten Deutschlands (RKD), a group mainly of exiles in France(8) survived both Gestapo and Stalinist repression during the war in uneasy associations imposed by the harshest necessity(9).
	home.earthlink.net /~lrgoldner/bourseiller.html (6341 words)

	Honeymoon over: The collapse of the left coalition
		It carried on this tradition in its anti-Stalinist phase and became for a relatively brief period the most leftist of the "Euro-communist" parties.
		Two alternative views of the complicated history of the development of the antiwar movement in Australia, from the point of view of the official left, are left Labor MP Tom Uren's lengthy autobiography, Straight left, and the recent biography of former Labor deputy prime minister Jim Cairns by Paul Strangio, called Keeper of the faith.
		The Aarons faction overwhelmingly supported Laver's proposition, strictly on the understanding, however, that it was only a lot of verbal hot air at a left gathering, in the good old Communist Party tradition.
	members.optushome.com.au /spainter/Honeymoon.html (6341 words)

	Revisionists vs. Anti-Soviets
		Stalin revisionists are to be found among nostalgic anti-"reform" Communists in Russia, and among some on the "academic left" in the USA, who wish to remove a principal moral justification for US anti-Communism in the Cold War.
		In the West, disagreements between revisionist and anti-Stalinist scholars have become less sharp in recent years.
		Points formerly disputed have been conceded, eg by many revisionists the horrifying death toll of Collectivization and the role of Western Communists in Soviet espionage, and by many anti-Soviets a Great-Purge (1936-1938) death toll in the low rather than the mid-to-high millions.
	www.cyberussr.com /rus/revision.html (763 words)

	Leon Trotsky and the Fate of Socialism in the 20th century
		One is left, when all is said and done, with the conclusion — at which Hobsbawm strongly hints — that October 1917 was a dreadful mistake and it would probably have been far better if Kamenev, the opponent of the insurrection, rather than Lenin, had prevailed in the deliberations of the Bolshevik Party.
		In countless documents, Trotsky and the Left Opposition insisted that the intelligent and correct formulation of Soviet policy, not to mention the political education of a Marxist cadre and the broadest layers of the working class, was inconceivable without a democratic regime within the Bolshevik Party.
		century drew to a close, the Social Democratic Party had survived the anti-Socialist laws to become the largest political party in the country.
	www.wsws.org /exhibits/trotsky/trlect.htm (763 words)

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