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	BobFromBrockley: The anti-Stalinist left and the politics of wikipedia
		The term anti-Stalinist left tends to be used in relation to those currents of the left that define themselves centrally in opposition to Stalinism, rather than anyone on the left who is critical of Stalinism.
		Left communists see communism as something that can only be achieved by the proletariat itself, and not through the dictatorship of a vanguard party acting on its behalf.
		The emergence of the New left and the new social movements of the 1950s and 1960s led to the revival of interest in the anti-Stalinist left and its alternative forms of Marxism.
	brockley.blogspot.com /2006/12/anti-stalinist-left-and-poltiics-of.html (981 words)

	Stalinism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Left communists like CLR James and the Italian autonomists, as well as unorthodox Trotskyists like Tony Cliff have described Stalinism as state capitalism, a form of capitalism where the state takes the role of capital.
		Finally, proponents of this view argue that the top-down, dictatorial government established by Lenin lacked essential checks and balances, and that this left the system open to abuse by ruthless politicians such as Stalin.
		In this view, Lenin's death left a power vacuum which allowed the most brutal of his successors to successfully gain power through manipulation and intrigue.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stalinist (2595 words)

	The Yale Free Press
		For this left, it is a simple postulate that al-Qaeda is an organization committed to revenge against the United States for the many crimes of empire.
		The great task of the left ought to be to shame those committed to fighting a war in Iraq into fighting it as a humanitarian intervention, to hold them to the promise of their rhetoric.
		Unless the left can rebuild itself -and it continues to provide ample reason to think that the moment is already too late to do so-then the left and all it stands for will be tossed onto the festering compost-heap of history.
	www.yale.edu /yfp/Koffler_Jan03.html (2726 words)

	OpinionJournal - THE OTHER SIDE
		However, there is also a certain historical past of the left referred to loosely under the name "Stalinism," which forms a massive blot on this commitment and these values, on the great tradition we belong to.
		Of a generation that believed that, even though the Western left still bore some signs of continuity with the Stalinist past, this was a dying, an increasingly marginal strand, and that we had put its errors largely behind us.
		This was not a discourse worthy of a democratically committed or principled left, and the would-be defense of it by its proponents, that they were merely trying to explain and not to excuse what happened, was itself a pathetic excuse.
	www.opinionjournal.com /forms/printThis.html?id=110003834 (2475 words)

	Socialist Pakistan
		The left movement in Pakistan traces its origins in the Indian communist movement, which, in turn draws its inspiration from the Russian revolutions of 1905 and particularly that of October 1917.
		The left during this period, instead of organizing and associating itself with the new layer of the proletariat was hunting progressives to support among the bourgeoisie.
		For the left it was a decade of mergers and alliances.
	www.laborpakistan.org /leftmovement.php (3757 words)

	The World Social Forum
		The Indian left has a complex character, and an understanding of this is crucial for any attempt to situate the significance of the WSF in Mumbai.
		But the mainstream left did not mobilize; nor did the CPI(ML) Liberation, which claims to be the real pole for an alternative left but which in fact is shifting simply to occupy the left reformist spot vacated by the CPI(M) as it becomes a servant of capitalist neoliberalism.
		For the mainstream left, ensconced in power for over a quarter of century in the province of West Bengal, it is not capitalist globalization per se that is bad, but the effort by imperialism to corner the gains of this globalization.
	www.laborstandard.org /WSF/Kunal.htm (6999 words)

	AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY: STALINIST BRIC-A-BRAC
		This space is dedicated to the proposition that we need to know the history of the struggles on the left and progressive movements.
		These Stalinist bureaucrats, and third generation Soviet bureaucrats at that, could only envision some kind of social-democratic merging of the Soviet economy with Western ‘social’ capitalism.
		That is, as the revolutionary energy of the Russian Revolution ebbed and the Stalinists usurped power and changed the purposes for which the Soviet Union was created their political positions resembled the old Menshevik (and post World War I European social democratic) positions of limiting the fight for socialism to some far away future.
	markinbookreview.blogspot.com /2007/10/stalinist-bric-brac.html (1074 words)

	Hoover Institution - Uncommon Knowledge - IS THE NEW LEFT HISTORY? The Past, Present, and Future of the Left
		And one of the oddities of the Left's perception of the Soviet Union is that in the very beginning, right after the Bolshevik Revolution, the great opponents of Lenin and the people who were at first the biggest critics were the Left.
		But when I was on the Marxist Left the reasons why I would have been proud to say I was, was internationalism, solidarity, with taking the side of the oppressed, and being opposed to all forms of religious nonsense.
		The Left is now a position where it will not take the side of those in the Muslim world, the women who are enslaved, the minorities who are being physically destroyed, the gays who must be there somewhere, God knows what their lives are like, and others against something that is self-evidently, pornographically reactionary.
	www.hoover.org /publications/uk/2932161.html (4281 words)

	Indian prime minister calls Left Front's bluff over Indo-US nuclear accord
		Last week the Left Front came out against the 123 Agreement, arguing that it both represents an attempt on the part of the Indian government to align India’s foreign policy more closely with that of US imperialism, and gives Washington the means to ensnare India in a dependent nuclear and military relationship.
		Trying to mask the Left’s complicity in the UPA’s forging of a new partnership between the Indian bourgeoisie and US imperialism, Communist Party of India General Secretary D. Raja made a show of bravado, saying that it is up to the Left, not Singh and the UPA, to determine its relations to the government.
		The Stalinists’ capitulation notwithstanding, the crisis for both the government and the Left Front is far from over, since even with the Left Front’s MPs abstaining, the UPA may not be able to cobble together enough votes to win parliamentary support for the 123 Agreement.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2007/aug2007/indi-a16.shtml (1797 words)

	Where We Stand: No to New Reformist Parties!
		In an effort to fill the political vacuum left by the collapse of Stalinism a decade ago and the parallel shift to the right by the social democratic and labor parties, left organizations that previously spoke of building Bolshevik-Leninist vanguards are now forming reformist parties and blocs committed to social-democratic programs.
		Stalinist East Europe and the USSR itself were the first to explode under the impact of economic collapse and the massive renewal of proletarian uprisings in the 1980's.
		The Stalinist collapse accelerated the decay of whatever was left of the residual loyalty the Communist parties had still commanded among their former followers in the working class in some countries.
	www.lrp-cofi.org /PR/reformismPR63.html (5105 words)

	abbr
		Euro-Asian Socialist Congress; left socialist parties of the former USSR and Eastern Europe; founded in 1995.
		Grouping of reform communist and left socialist parties founded in 1991.
		left communist; international Group founded by majority of Communism or Civilization (Communisme ou Civilisation) in 1994.
	www.broadleft.org /abbr.htm (1139 words)

	Regroupment and the socialist left today (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The PRC, by contrast, has its roots in the Stalinist and left social-democratic traditions, though revolutionaries (including the supporters of the FI and the IST) also participate in it.
		The causes are the collapse of Stalinism and the development of the anti-capitalist movement; the challenge is the new era of imperialist war.
		The fall of the Stalinist regimes in eastern and central Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Union had initially a negative effect on the left internationally, since many still invested - if only perhaps unconsciously - hope in the existence of what appeared to be a systemic alternative to Western-style market capitalism.
	www.dsp.org.au /links/back/issue23/Callinicos.htm (6267 words)

	Pip Hinman and Peter Boyle, Philippines left in new upsurge
		This is the response of the Ramos government and armed forces as they have come to realise that the left has been revitalised by a split in which significant sections of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) have declared their autonomy from the old leadership of the party, which they accuse of being Stalinist.
		However, MRRC leaders who spoke to Green Left said that the show of strength by the new left on November 30 shocked the Ramos regime, and showed that despite the internal debate, the left was increasing in strength.
		We were left in no doubt that this was the most significant achievement for the Filipino left since the toppling of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/54a/108.html (2099 words)

	The Yale Free Press
		Their mass murder of more than a year ago was a thwarted, re-channeled protest against the Empire or its local Middle Eastern servant and enforcer, Israel.Pity that they didn’t engage in the sort of peaceful protest some endorse — but the essential point of the murderers was a valid one.
		When dogma overpowers skepticism in the mind of a leftist— this is the trend I have tried to discern within the incoherent babble that now passes for criticism—he has ceased to be radical at all.
		Unless the left can rebuild itself— and it continues to provide ample reason to think that the moment is already too late to do so—then the left and all it stands for will be tossed onto the festering compost-heap of history.
	www.yale.edu /yfp/archives/jan03/jan03_feature.html (2695 words)

	Interactivist Info Exchange \| Salim Muwakkil, "Pro-War Progressives and the Anti-Stalinist Left" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The pro-war progressives want to claim the tradition of the anti-Stalinist left of Cold War lore, but that analogy is faulty.
		Among the many effects of the terrorism attacks of September 11, 2001, was the ideological shift they provoked among those on the left.
		By portraying the war on terrorism as a battle of liberalism vs. fascism, the pro-war progressives seek to claim the tradition of the anti-Stalinist left of Cold War lore.
	slash.autonomedia.org /analysis/03/05/15/1645211.shtml (988 words)

	How the Left's Walter Durantys Stalinize the Bush White House
		Paradoxically, however, the Left’s savagely Stalinist character assassinations are always directed at Republican administrations and the U.S. military, who are mainly conservative Republicans who get ridiculed for loving and defending their country.
		It’s because the Left has so distorted McCarthyism to the point where they believe that good is evil and evil is good, that they don’t see the present terrorist threat as a real threat, which was why Bill Clinton and Al Gore were able to get away with ignoring it for eight years.
		In their hypocrisy, the Left’s mouthpieces are now the very symbol of hatred and vileness they have falsely accused McCarthy of becoming because they possess the very duplicity they accuse their opponents of practicing, as they still sit on the wrong side of history.
	www.michnews.com /artman/publish/printer_12577.shtml (2313 words)

	Reclaiming Sartre: A review of Ian Birchall, Sartre Against Stalinism—Tanbou / Tambour, Été 2005
		The PCF was the largest left wing political party for the majority of Sartre’s lifetime and was also—at least from its higher ranks—Sartre’s most constant critic.
		Second, a fuller understanding of the French left must be developed than that of previous commentators, who have been content to argue that the French left were a homogeneous grouping.
		Formed as a left wing anti-Stalinist assembly, the RDR was able to ‘achieve a larger membership than any Trotskyist grouping between 1945 and 1968’.
	www.tanbou.com /2005/ReclaimingSartre.htm (3704 words)

	ZMagSept
		Most of Howe’s view of the Left was colored by his frustration that as the self-appointed guru of dissent, he was ignored by the New Left.
		Hence both the Stalinist liberation movement and Washington militarism were equally bad, except that the West ultimately supported democratic values and the Third Worldists don’t.
		But irony of ironies they were men of little consequence in the major political and moral debates within the Left during their student days and later in their mature lives as “public intellectuals.” Thank God we only have to deal with them in a movie now.
	www.zmag.org /ZMag/articles/articles/PETRASsept98.htm (2474 words)

	The left in Pakistan: a brief history (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The left during this period, instead of organising and associating itself with the new layer of the proletariat, was hunting for progressives among the bourgeoisie to whom it could lend support.
		The left did not understand the nature of the movement nor analyse the nature of its leadership.
		The left as a whole is hardly recognised as a force at present.
	www.dsp.org.au /links/back/issue13/Sulehria2.htm (3670 words)

	Levy/Lahr: Review - New York Intellectuals
		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.
		The New Left was a major new force arising amongst the younger intellectuals, and whilst on the whole they were as confused a bunch as one could expect to see, they nevertheless correctly saw America’s rôle in that war.
		The New Left, the bastard children of the New York intellectuals, revolted against their rightward-moving parents as a consequence of the Vietnam War, but took on as their basic creed that there are other means for radical social change, and thus downgraded the working class.
	www.marxists.org /history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol2/no2/wald.html (4344 words)

	CPGB/WW: Never Stalinist? \| Workers' Liberty
		Mark admitted some "flaws, reflecting the illusions and theoretical errors characteristic of the extreme left wing of ‘official communism’", in the article, but did not find it necessary to specify those "flaws" further, and on the whole praised the article as excellent proof that the Stalinist PDPA had led "a genuine democratic revolution".
		Given the history of the left on such questions as Ireland, and the Middle East, for instance, I would venture that the record of the AWL on these questions is much more 'Stalinoid' than the Spartacists.
		First, it was not a Stalinist formation; second, linked to that, the country is not on the borders of the former USSR, and never likely to experience an attempted extension of Russian Stalinism in the same way; third, and most important, it had mass support.
	www.workersliberty.org /node/354 (18125 words)

	Communism Is The Material Human Community: Amadeo Bordiga Today
		He turned the Stalinists on their head by saying that Trotsky's problem was not his "underestimation" of the peasantry, but his overestimation of the possibility that the peasants, and the agrarian revolution of petty producers, could have anything to do with a proletarian revolution.
		Postwar Trotskyists (for whom Trotsky is of course not responsible) saw the industrialization of the Stalinist regimes during the period when the Third World was showing no signs of development anywhere as the definitive proof of their deformed socialist character.
		Bordiga's idea that capitalism equals the agrarian revolution is the key to the 20th century; it's certainly the key to almost everything the left has called "revolutionary" in the 20th century, and it is the key to rethinking the history of Marxism and its entanglement with ideologies of industrializing backward regions of the world economy.
	home.earthlink.net /~lrgoldner/bordiga.html (9579 words)

	Istria on the Internet - History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He stated that the Stalinist bureaucracy had become "little by little the core of a new ruling class"; consequently, it was necessary to lead demand struggles, no less than in the capitalist countries; and for this same reason to ally oneself with the socialist and anarchist workers in the factories.
		The conclusion was a rejection of Trotskyism as a left current of Stalinism: "Trotsky and his partisans are too closely tied to the bureaucratic regime in the USSR to be able to lead the struggle against the regime to its extreme consequences".
		The left Trotskyists, ignoring the new position of Trotsky, judged that the appeal for the formation of a Fourth International was "a premature and demagogic slogan".
	www.istrianet.org /istria/history/ciliga/obituary-bourrinet-eng.htm (15458 words)

	Socialism Today - Our Aims
		The disillusionment of the Marxistic left, moreover, parallels the abandonment of socialist objectives and the open acceptance of the capitalist market by all the main trends in the labour movement, from right-wing to ex-Stalinist reformists.
		THE COLLAPSE OF the Stalinist states does not prove the superiority of capitalism, that economic planning is unviable or that the market is the only effective means of running economies.
		Acceptance of the 'market' means acceptance of the domination of world production and trade by a small handful of big capitalist monopolies, the determination of social priorities by their drive for profits, and the 'organisation' of economic life by the anarchic market of capitalism.
	www.socialismtoday.org /aims.html (4068 words)

	FrontPage Magazine
		The Left at CUNY was not a big tent housing Social Democrats and liberals, socialists and Communists.
		As a TA under Dr. Sandi Cooper, I was required to sit in on her European survey lectures and witnessed, not a teacher, but a fringe element of our history come to life, which in her case was the American Communist Party line in its salad days.
		Here was Orwell’s “talking gramophone,” issuing all the homilies about the working class and its travails under capitalism while herself refusing to use public transportation and complaining about the lack of heat in her office.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21503 (1282 words)

	What Do We Mean By Anti-Capitalism? - International The left - Anarkismo
		From 1989 to 1992 the Soviet Union and the Stalinist governments of Eastern Europe dissolved, in a combination of popular revolt and maneuvering by sections of the ruling bureaucracy.
		Historically anarchists considered themselves to be a part of the left--the extreme left of the left, that is, the most oppositional of those in opposition to capitalism and the state.
		Stalinist state enterprises and its independent enterprises were all capitalist.
	www.anarkismo.net /newswire.php?story_id=2925&condense_comments=false (8037 words)

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