Bloodstained : One Hundred Years Of Leninist Counterrevolution

Notes
All quotations in this introduction are taken from the authors’ essays in this anthology. It is believed that Bukharin here refers to more than just Russian anarchism and Russian anarchists. In his pamphlet he makes no distinction and speaks in a global sense. On the other hand, Russian anarchists have the same ideas and programs as anarchists in other countries. See The ABC of Communism by Bukharin and Preobrazhensky, Editorial Avanti!, Milan, p. 85. See Marx: “The Alliance of Socialist Democracy and the International Working Men’s Association” in Works of Marx, Engels and Lasalle edited by Avanti!, Milan, vol. 2. (English translation from Marx-EngelsLenin, Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1972, p. 110. (Note by English editor.) These and other statements, printed in quotation marks or in heavy type, are literal quotes from... (From : TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

Publishing Information
Publishing Information “Anarchy and ‘Scientific’ Communism,” by Luigi Fabbri, was first published in 1922 as Anarchia e comunismo sciendfico by Libreria editrice tempos nuovi and translated by Paul Sharkey for the 1981 Cienfuegos Pamphlet The Poverty ofStadsm. “The Soviet System or the Dictatorship of the Proletariat?,” by Rudolf Rocker, was first serialized in Fraye Arbayter Shdme as “Raten-sistem oder diktatur?,” May 15 through May 29, 1920. It was published in French in Les Temps Nouveaux as “Le systeme des soviets ou la dictature du proletariat?” that same year. Numerous Spanish editions were based on the French. This English translation by Paul Sharkey is from the Spanish and was made for the 1981 Cienfuegos pamphlet The Poverty ofStadsm. “The Idea of Equality and the Bolsheviks,” by Nestor Makhno, was first published in Dye... (From : TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

Chapter 12 : The Role of Bolshevik Ideology in the Birth of the Bureaucracy by Cornelius Castoriadis
The Role of Bolshevik Ideology in the Birth of the Bureaucracy by Cornelius Castoriadis [1. The Significance of the Russian Revolution] We are happy to present to our readers the first translation into French of Alexandra Kollontai’s pamphlet The Workers’ Opposition in Russia. This pamphlet was published in Moscow at the beginning of 1921, during the violent controversy that preceded the Tenth Congress of the Bolshevik Party. This Congress was to close discussion forever on this controversy as well as on all the others. People have not finished talking about the Russian Revolution, its problems, its degeneration, and about the regime it ultimately produced. And how could one? Of all the revolts of the working class, the Russian Revolution was the only victorious one. And of all the working class’s failures, it was the most thoroughgoing and the most revealing. The crushing of the Paris Commune in 18... (From : TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

Chapter 11 : Bolshevism and Stalinism by Paul Mattick
Bolshevism and Stalinism by Paul Mattick The alleged purpose of Trotsky’s biography of Stalin is to show ‘how a personality of this sort was formed, and how it came to power by usurpation of the right to such an exceptional role.’ The real purpose of the book, however, is to show why Trotsky lost the power position he temporarily occupied and why his rather than Stalin’s name should follow Lenin’s. Prior to Lenin’s death it had always been ‘Lenin and Trotsky’; Stalin’s name had invariably been near or at the end of any list of prominent Bolsheviks. On one occasion Lenin even suggested that he put his own signature second to Trotsky’s. In brief, the book helps to explain why Trotsky was of the opinion “that he was the natural successor to Lenin” and in effect is a biography of both Stalin and Trotsky. All beginnings are small, of course, and the Bolshevism of L... (From : TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

Chapter 10 : Cries In The Wilderness: Alexander Berkman and Russian Prisoner Aid by Barry Pateman
Cries In The Wilderness: Alexander Berkman and Russian Prisoner Aid by Barry Pateman “Not even a miserable piece of stone is dedicated to their memory for fear of rippling a placid existence.” —Francesc Torres You can get tired of anniversaries. As you get older there are more and more of them, rolling towards you like a never ending freight train carrying commentary after commentary as the skeleton of each event is enthusiastically picked over to justify the positions and ideas that groups and individuals now hold. I am not interested in doing that for October 1917 (or for any other anniversary come to think of it). I rather think peoples lives and experiences are important in themselves and don’t need to be filleted to fit some contemporary idea or abandoned because they don’t appear relevant. Their lives might insist we ask questions, though. Even if the answer... (From : TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

Anarchy and “Scientific” Communism by Luigi Fabbri
Anarchy and “Scientific” Communism by Luigi Fabbri I. The bourgeois phraseology of “scientific” communism A short while ago, through the publishing firm of the Communist Party of Italy, a little twelve-page pamphlet was issued by that “superlative theoretician” (as he was introduced to the public in the socialist and communist press) Nikolai Bukharin. It bore the pompous title Anarchy and Scientific Communism. Let us just have a look and see how much “science” there is in it. Bukharin does not set out any true notion of anarchism, any of the points in the anarchist-communist program as they truthfully are; nor does he take the trouble to inform himself on anarchist thinking by drawing upon the... (From : TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

The Soviet System or the Dictatorship of the Proletariat? by Rudolf Rocker
The Soviet System or the Dictatorship of the Proletariat? by Rudolf Rocker Perhaps the reader thinks he has found a flaw in the above title and that the soviet system and the dictatorship of the proletariat are one and the same thing? No. They are two radically different ideas which, far from being mutually complementary, are mutually opposed. Only an unhealthy party logic could accept a fusion when what really exists is an irreconcilable opposition. The idea of “soviets” is a well defined expression of what we take to be social revolution, being an element belonging entirely to the constructive side of socialism. The origin of the notion of dictatorship is wholly bourgeois and as such, has nothing to do with socialism. It is po... (From : TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

My Disillusionment in Russia—Afterword by Emma Goldman
My Disillusionment in Russia—Afterword by Emma Goldman I Non-Bolshevik Socialist critics of the Russian failure contend that the Revolution could not have succeeded in Russia because industrial conditions had not reached the necessary climax in that country. They point to Marx, who taught that a social revolution is possible only in countries with a highly developed industrial system and its attendant social antagonisms. They therefore claim that the Russian Revolution could not be a social revolution, and that historically it had to evolve along constitutional, democratic lines, complemented by a growing industry, in order to ripen the country economically for the basic change. This orthodox Marxian view leaves an important factor ou... (From : TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

A Decade of Bolshevism by Alexander Berkman
A Decade of Bolshevism by Alexander Berkman The communist dictatorship in Russia has completed its first decade. It may therefore be interesting and instructive to sum up the achievements of the Bolsheviki during that time, to visualize the results of their rule. But “results” are a relative matter. One can form an estimate of them only by comparing them with the things that were to be achieved, with the objects sought. What were the objects of the Russian Revolution? What have the Bolsheviki achieved? The Romanov regime was an absolutism; Russia under the czars was the most enslaved country in Europe. The people hungered for liberty. The February-March Revolution, 1917, abolished that absolutism. The people became free. But tha... (From : TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism by Otto Ruhle
The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism by Otto Ruhle I. Russia must be placed first among the new totalitarian states. It was the first to adopt the new state principle. It went furthest in its application. It was the first to establish a constitutional dictatorship, together with the political and administrative terror system which goes with it. Adopting all the features of the total state, it thus became the model for those other countries which were forced to do away with the democratic state system and to change to dictatorial rule. Russia was the example for fascism. No accident is here involved, nor a bad joke of history. The duplication of systems here is not apparent but real. Everything points to t... (From : TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)