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.)

Preface to Ida Mett’s “The Kronstadt Commune” by Maurice Brinton
Preface to Ida Mett’s “The Kronstadt Commune” by Maurice Brinton The fiftieth anniversary of the Russian Revolution will be assessed, analyzed, celebrated or bemoaned in a variety of ways. To the peddlers of religious mysticism and to the advocates of “freedom of enterprise,” Svetlana Stalin’s sensational (and well-timed) defection will “prove” the resilience of their respective doctrines, now shown as capable of sprouting on what at first sight would appear rather barren soil. To incorrigible liberals, the recent, cautious reintroduction of the profit motive into certain sectors of the Russian economy will “prove” that laissez-faire economics is synonymous with human nature and th... (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.)

The Idea of Equality and the Bolsheviks by Nestor Makhno
The Idea of Equality and the Bolsheviks by Nestor Makhno The 14th Congress of the Russian Communist Party has roundly condemned the notion of equality. Prior to the congress, Zinoviev had mentioned the idea in the course of his polemic against Ustrialov and Bukharin. He declared then that the whole of contemporary philosophy was sustained by the idea of equality. Kalinin spoke up forcefully at the congress against that contention, taking the line that any reference to equality could not help but be harmful and was not to be tolerated. His reasoning was as follows: “Can we talk to peasants about equality? No, that is out of the question, for in that case, they would set about demanding the same rights as workers, which would be in comp... (From : TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

Introduction by The Friends of Aron Baron History may not have ended, but it certainly has gotten strange. The social contract neoliberalism once imposed—a patchwork of economic shell games and the political rituals needed to foist them on people—has shredded with surprising speed in recent years. The result has been a rapid universalization of precarity. Unpredictability and groundlessness are ubiquitous parts of our lives, which unfold in a supposedly “post-truth” world where the basic prerequisites for understanding almost anything seem lacking—or at least seem to change with each news cycle. This new reality was both cause and effect of Donald Trump’s election as forty-fifth president of the United St... (From : TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)