On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Chuck0 wrote:
> As far as Soviet centralized planning goes, I think we all understand
> that it was a massive failure.
Nyet, comrade. What was call Soviet planning was simply a war economy imposed on the place by sheer necessity, nothing more, and it was thanks to that war economy that Europe was freed of Fascism. Soviet CP also helped jumpstart the Chinese and Vietnamese revolutions, and created breathing room for the Euro/Asian developmental states to run silicon socialisms underneath the US Empire's radar. Mighty achievements, these.
- -- Dennis
Big quibble on the CCP and the Comintern, Dennis. (Though not on Vietnam, overall the level of proletarian internationalist assistance by the fSU towards the Vietnamese during the War was much higher than what the CCP gave.)
Among zillions of sources>
http://www.revolutionary-history.co.uk/backissu.htm (academic Trotskyist journal) Vol 2 No 4, Spring 1990 The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution (Click the URL, all these are available online.)
Editorial Paul Collin : The Tragedy of the Chinese revolution "The Awakening of the Chinese workers' movement" Damien Durand : The birth of the Chinese Left Opposition Pierre Broue : Chen Duxiu and the Fourth International International Communist League : The peasant war in China Frank Glass : The Communist League of China Zheng Chaolin : On the nature of revolution Peng Shuzi : Trotskyism in China Wang Fanzi : Problems of Chinese trotskyism Reviews
Sally L D Katary : Land tenure in the Rameside Period Arif Dirlik : The Origins of Chinese communism Roy Medvedev : Let History Judge; The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism. (Bought my copy of the 2nd revised, expanded edition at at old CPUSA bookstore on Valencia St. in S.F. before they had an ugly fight with CofC over the party assets. Joked with the clerk that Gus should read it. She laughed. M.P.) R. W. Davies : Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution
Harold Isaacs, "The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution, " mostly on the disastrous united front with the KMT. The first edition of this work, from 1938, is preferable to 2nd and later editions. Written under Trotskyist influence. 2nd edition was revised in the early 50's, when Isaacs was doubtless worried about keeping his job at Newsweek.
Wang Fanxi, "Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary, " Columbia U.Press, 1991.
Wang Fanxi, "The Stalinist State In China, " New International, March-April 1951. (See the Greenwood Press reprint in the series, "Radical Periodicals in the U.S.)
Arif Dirlik, "The Origins of Chinese Communism, " Oxford U. Press, 1989.
"Borodin: Stalin's Man in China, " by Dan Jacobs, Harvard U. Press, 1981.
"The Communist Movement, " by Fernando Claudin, 2 vols. translated mid to late 70's, published by Monthly Review Press.
Chalmers Johnson book from 1951 von the CCP.
Pierre Rousset pamphlets on Maoism, available from IIRE in Amsterdam. Possibly used copies at http://www.bolerium.com
CORRIGAN, PHILIP, HARVIE RAMSAY AND DEREK SAYER. For Mao. Essays in Historical Materialism. Notes, biblio., index, 207pp, good copy in dustjacket. Macmillan. London. 1979. A companion volume to the authors' Socialist Construction and Marxist Theory. (Read the latter, summer vacation of '78. Other teenagers were hangin' out at the mall!)
Vol 3 No 2 Autumn 1990 Vietnam. Workers' Revolution and National Independence
http://www.revolutionary-history.co.uk/backissu.htm
Editorial Hugo Oehler : The Ukraine Question (with an introduction by Ernest Rogers) Simon Pirani : The Fourth International in Vietnam Daniel Hemery : La Lutte and the Vietnamese Trotskyists Ngo Van Xuyet : On Vietnam Ngo Van Xuyet : Ta Thu Thau. Vietnamese Trotskyist Leader A Letter to Trotsky (from leaders of La Lutte) Comrade P : My First Steps Towards the Permanent Revolution Ngo Van Xuyet : A 'Moscow Trial' in Ho Chi Minh's Guerilla Movement ICL (Vietnamese Section of the FI) : Our Position, 8 July 47 Lu Sanh Hanh : Some Stages in the Revolution in the South of Vietnam
William J. Duiker bio of Ho Chi Minh, now in paperback. "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, NLF Is Gonna Win!"
Michael Pugliese