Sorry for the >carrots. I'd use the shareware eCLEANER tool
if I was at home now. Gar's comment about coordinator class interests
and marxism as the legitimating ideology of the New Class are
examined in many of these sources. Michael Pugliese, that weird
neo-Trot, right-wing socdem neo-con social imperialist running
dog lackey. Woof, woof!--- Original Message ---
>From: "michael pugliese" <debsian at pacbell.net>
>To: asdnet at igc.topica.com
>Date: 7/2/02 11:09:35 AM
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Ran out of room there... There are literally hundreds of sources to look for a Leftist critique of the Communist experience. Many based on a marxist methodology.A few off the top of my head. Some by folks that had long experience in Communist Parties.
"The communist movement, " by Fernando Claudin, of the Spanish Communist Party. Published in two vols. by Monthly Review Press, in the late 70's. He fought that fascists in Spain in the 30's.
"Let History Judge, " by Russian marxist, Roy Medvedev, 2nd edition, Columbia Univ. Press. I bought my copy at the old CPUSA bookstore on 522 Valencia St. in SF around '91. The clerk and I had a laugh when I said Gus Hall would be appalled that they were selling such counter-revolutionary Trotskyite bilge. "Dictatorship over Needs, " by Agnes Heller and three other ex-students of the great Hungarian marxist, G. Lukacs. Critique using neo-marxist and weberian =categories to analyze Soviet-type societies. "The Stalinist Legacy, " edited by Tariq Ali, Lynne Rienner pubs. Tariq, as y'all know has a newish book a bestseller in Washington, D.C. , I hear, "The Clash of Fundamentalisms." Ali is an editor at Verso and NLR. A journal that for decades has been both anti-capitalist and anti-Stalinist. Blanking on the title, the Francois Furet vol. published by the Free Press in NYC on the history of Communism. Furet was in the French Communist Party. The chapter on Fascism in the book is esp. relevent to showing the hidden alliances between the Nazis and the Stalinists that predate the Nazi-Soviet Pact of '39. "Enemies at the Gate, " William Chase edited volume of Comintern docs on the savage repression against European anti-fascist exiles in the fSU in the 30's. In the Yale U. Press Annals of Communism series.BTW, Grover Furr, the semi-sane Maoist in PLP who has a huge website tells me the book passed his smell test.
The journals, Workers Liberty, Revolutionary History and New Politics. All solid left journals, none give any quarter to Kapitalists. Or Uncle Joes followers. "The Lost History of the Russian Revolution, " the original pieces by such as Victor Serge, Max Shactman, Trotsky et. al. from The New International. The Shactman pieces esp. are valuable because he edited out critical comments on Socdems when putting together, "The Bureaucratic Revolution, " in '62. That book occasionally shows up at a http://www.bolerium.com
"Marxism and the USSR, " by Paul Bellis. A bit heavy too orthodox for my taste but a good review of the various marxist theories, state capitalism, degenerated workers state, bureaucratic collectivism.
"The Alternative in eastern Europe, " by Rudolf Bahro, Verso
books. Bahro was a dissident marxist in the GDR. Bacame a Green
after he was expelled from the German Democratic Rep. "Post-Revolutionary
Society, " by Paul Sweezy from Monthly Review. Closet Shactmanite.
calls the social formations in the fSU and other Soviet type
societies New Class societies, neither capiatlist or socialist.
Michael Pugliese
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