Left wing communism

Category: Trotskyism


Deglobalization, reality or false hope?

Rolando Astarita has edited [in Spanish]: Capital globalization or de-globalization?. The figures and graphs he provides are significant. The so-called globalization has not been broken, nor have the trends been reversed. Astarita analyzes at half gas as usual, circulating through…

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The Forgotten Logic of Communism

By Hermann Lueer Spanish, German One hundred years ago, at Christmas in 1925, Jan Appel was released from prison carrying with him a manuscript he had written behind bars: The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution.[1] Composed in the…

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Astarita’s erroneous analyses of Milei at the helm of Argentina

Spanish Astarita is a retired Marxist academic, who broke with a long career as a Trotskyist activist and now expresses ideological criticisms in line with the New Left, including clear support for bourgeois and imperialist factions: Ukraine against Russia, the…

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On the dictatorship of the proletariat and the period of transition

Barbaria and the Communist Left. Bias, concealment and rhetoric Spanish Barbaria has published an exchange of letters with an internationalist: Letters on the dictatorship of the proletariat and the transition to communism. Barbaria initially asserts the following: “We consider ourselves…

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Gaza War: Amid conflicting “class” jargon, the communizing ideology sheds its bourgeois imperialist character

Spanish The Facebook group Communisation announces the publication of a pamphlet by Deserters of Capitalist Peace: “From the Second Intifada to October 7.” They say: “In this edition, we have chosen to focus on October 7 not as a “terrorist…

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Arbeitszeitrechnung. Rationierung. Geld drucken. Kostenlose Produkte und Dienstleistungen

Englisch, Spanisch Inhalt Was ist die AZR? Eine allgemeine Beschreibung Die AZR, wie von der GIK vorgeschlagen Grenzen der Vorschläge der GIK Die proletarische Bastion 1) Die Frage des Krieges 2) Einsatz der Gelddruckmaschine 3) Rationierung 4) Kostenloser Konsum, ideologische…

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Minassian chasse les fantômes du prolétariat, partie 2

Après Gaza-Palestine, maintenant la Syrie, puis le monde English, Spanish Que se passe-t-il à Gaza et en Cisjordanie ? Ce que nous avons vu au cours des deux dernières années est clairement un massacre d’une ampleur sans précédent !Mais quelles en…

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Notes on Jasper Bernes “The Future of Revolution. Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising”

By Hermann Lueer German, Spanish, French Abstract In The Future of Revolution (Verso, 2025), Jasper Bernes acknowledges that the concept of labor-time accounting outlined in the Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution overcomes value-oriented capitalist production. However, he argues…

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Anmerkungen zu Jasper Bernes »The Future of Revolution. Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising«

Von Hermann Lueer Englisch, Französisch, Espagnol Zusammenfassung In »The Future of Revolution« (Verso, 2025), räumt Jasper Bernes ein, dass das in den »Grundprinzipien kommunistischer Produktion und Verteilung« dargelegte Konzept der Arbeitszeitrechnung die wertorientierte kapitalistische Produktion überwindet. Er kritisiert jedoch, dass sich die…

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Clarity as a Basis for Cooperation in the Struggle Against War (part 2)

Class War / Tridni Valka (further: TV) and its contradictory responses to outstanding problems of class struggle for communism Spanish For Part 1 of this article, see Criticism of the Anti-Political Social Revolutionary Tendency (AST). The AST (Antipolitisch-Sozialrevolutionäre Tendenz) wrote…

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Clarity as a Basis for Cooperation in the Struggle Against War (part 1)

Spanish Criticism of the Anti-Political Social Revolutionary Tendency (AST) Rejecting Leninism as a means of spreading libertarianism, communization, and the anti-party tendencies of council communism, as initially represented by Otto Rühle. The AST (Antipolitisch-Sozialrevolutionäre Tendenz) wrote Für die globale Vernetzung…

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Learning lessons from the revolution in Russia or remaking history?

The exchange between our publication and reader P. highlights differing views on Leninism and the Russian revolution. P. defends Bolshevism while we argue its trajectory led to capitalism’s resurgence, emphasizing the need for proletarian mass action over party-centric approaches. Our critiques stress historical lessons to prevent repeating past errors.

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