October 2008
ARCHIVE
See Also: Daily list of files updated
31 October 2008: Added to the Romanian Paul Lafargue Archive:
Amintiri despre Karl Marx [Reminiscences of Karl Marx, 1909], translated for the first time in Romanian.
[Thanks to Liviu Iacob]
31 October 2008: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line has added to the Brian Pearce Writers Archive:
For the Twentieth Anniversary of Comrade Harry Pollitt as General Secretary of the Communist Party [1976]
[Thanks to Paul Flewers]
29 October 2008: Added to The Communist International (New Series) Index and the New William F. Dunne:
What War did to America, (1924)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
28 October 2008: Added to the Peking Review subject archive from Volume 9, No. 4,January 21, 1966 are two contributions:
P.L.A. Conference on Political Work
Foreign Ministry Statement: China Condemns Towering U.S. Crimes in South Vietnam
[Thanks to massline.org for allowing us to mirror these issues of Peking Review]
28 October 2008: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive are 35 new editorials by De Leon from October and November of 1905:
1905, October 1—The “ Saloon” and Other Effects
1905, October 2—“Our Colossal Immorality’s” Antidote
1905, October 3—The Foolishness of the Americans
1905, October 5—Gompers and the Constitution
1905, October 6—The Pure Food Fight
1905, October 9—“Prosperity” or Panic?
1905, October 13—The Devil Burnt With Fire
1905, October 14—Their Headlong Course
1905, October 15—The Contest on the Party’s Name
1905, October 16—Looking Forward
1905, October 17—War!
1905, October 18—Did McCabe Learn?
1905, October 19—Shakers Falling in Line
1905, October 22—The “ Fruit” That Is in Danger
1905, October 24—A Joint Answer
1905, October 25—A Brotherhood in Deed
1905, October 26—McClellan Economics
1905, October 27—Sense and Nonsense of Lawsonism
1905, October 28—Beaten to a Standstill
1905, October 28—Danger Ahead for Russia
1905, October 29—An Open Letter
1905, October 31—The Latest “ Backward” Race
1905, November 2—Phrenology—Ancient and Modern
1905, November 3—Digging Their Own Graves
1905, November 6—Modern Farming
1905, November 9—Creating Nature
1905, November 10—“Equality Before the Law”
1905, November 11—Revolution! Socialism!! Anarchy!!! Etc.!!!!
1905, November 12—The Speeding Waves of the Revolution
1905, November 13—Anointing the Fetich
1905, November 14—A. Spinrad—Next!
1905, November 15—“Impossibilism”
1905, November 16—Impotence and Impudence
1905, November 17—Investigating in Russia
1905, December 9—The Judge Is Right
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the US]
28 October 2008: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Dois Mundos — Duas Ideologias. Wrote by Acadêmico G. Aleksándrov.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
28 October 2008: Introducing the Lajos Magyar Archive:
The Bankruptcy of Trotskyism, (1934)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
27 October 2008: Added to the Nikolai Bukharin Archive:
Toward a Theory of the Imperialist State, 1915
[Thanks to Orestes]
26 October 2008: Added to the National Minority Movement Subject Archive, subsection of the Communist Party of Great Britain Archive:
What Is This Minority Movement?, (1928) Pamphlet published by the NMM explaining its programme and its relationship to the national and international trade union movement.
* Updates relating to the Communist Party of Great Britain History Archive can also be found on the CPGB’s What’s New Page
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
26 October 2008: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
A Abolição da Contradição Entre a Cidade e o Campo na URSS e os Meios de Superar a Diferença Essencial Entre os Mesmos, Segundo J. V. Stálin. Wrote by A. Kuropátkin.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
25 October 2008: Added to the Portuguese Lenin Archive:
O Que Fazer Para Aprender o Comunismo?, 1920
[Thanks to Jornal A Verdade, Rafael Freire and Fernando Araújo]
24 October 2008: Added to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archive is a small pamphlet in PDF format translated from the original Russian by the MIA’s Tim Davenport:
“Thirst for Power”
This pamphlet, “Thirst for Power,” was originally one of 26 small component chapters of one of Leon Trotsky’s most interesting books, Prestupleniia Stalina [The Crimes of Stalin]. This little-known work was written on board the ship which carried Trotsky and his wife from de facto house arrest in Norway to political asylum in Mexico late in December of 1936. Along with commentary about his troubled personal situation, Trotsky’s book addressed various aspects of the first of the “Great Purge Trials” held in Moscow that August and marked a first formal response to the charges against him emerging from that proceeding.A
[Thanks to Tim Davenport]
24 October 2008: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Discurso na Assembléia de Eleitores no Distrito Eleitoral Urbano de Moscou. Wrote by N. A. Bulganin.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
23 October 2008: Completed: Volume 37, of the massive V.I. Lenin Collected Works. This leaves only two volumes to complete of the total of 45 volumes: Volumes 39 & 40. If you are interested in helping us out, please contact us.
[Thanks to D. Walters]
23 October 2008: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Primeira Mensagem do Conselho Geral da Associação Internacional dos Trabalhadores Sobre a Guerra Franco-Prussiana, 1870.
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
23 October 2008: Added to the Paris May 1968:
Survivors, on the question of participation of Jews in May 1968 events in France
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]
22 October 2008: Added to the Bangladeshi language section of the Marxists Internet Archive are the following original translations:
Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature by Marx
Economic and Political Manuscript, Marx
German Ideology, Marx
[Thanks to our Bangladesh volunteers, Sakib and Javed]
22 October 2008: Added to the Romanian Paul Lafargue Archive:
Determinismul economic al lui Karl Marx [The Economic Determinism of Karl Marx, 1909], translated for the first time in Romanian.
[Thanks to Alexander Tendler]
21 October 2008: Added to the MIA Political Economy section:
Francis Horner - Two Political Economy Reviews.
Francis Horner was born in Edinburgh on August 12th, 1778. He studied political economy extensively and helped found the influential Edinburgh Review. He was a Scottish Whig MP from 1806 for a number of seats. In 1810 he chaired the famous Bullion Committee, which investigated the high price of gold, inconvertible paper money and the gold standard. Its Report is one of the classic documents of bourgeois monetary theory. He died in Pisa, Italy on February 8th 1817.
Horner's review of Henry Thornton's book on "Paper Credit" is considered an able and concise summary of an important but sometimes difficult text. According to MEGA IV/7, Marx read Horner's 1802 review in London in 1851. Marx quotes in Capital from one of his speeches in the House of Commons against child slavery. His brother, Leonard Horner, was the factory inspector, quoted by Marx repeatedly in Capital, who exposed the oppressive conditions workers were forced to endure in the workplace.
[Thanks to Steve Palmer]
21 October 2008: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Sobre as Leis Mais Gerais do Desenvolvimento da Produção. Wrote by F. Vassíliev.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
21 October 2008: Added to the Karl Kautsky Internet Archive:
The Lessons of the October Experiment (1925)
[Thanks to Zdravko Saveski and Mike Bessler]
18 October 2008: Added to the V.I. Lenin Collected Works are 18 new letters from Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenin’s wife and comrade, to his mother and two sisters, Maria & Anna. This brings to 291 letters from Lenin and Krupskaha from Volume 37, almost completing this volune.
[Thanks to D. Walters]
18 October 2008: Added to the MIA Political Economy section:
David Yaffe - The Marxian Theory of Capital, Crisis and The State. This classic, oft-cited article helped jump-start the discussion of crisis theory in the English speaking world in the early 1970s, introducing into the discussion the Grundrisse, Rosdolsky's commentary and Henryk Grossmann's classic book - none of which had been translated into English at the time. Influenced by the rediscovery of Marx's Hegelian heritage, it makes a sharp break with the traditional positions of Sweezy, Dobb and Joan Robinson whose interpretation of Marx shows strong affinity with Keynesianism.
[Thanks to Steve Palmer]
18 October 2008: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Introdução de Friedrich Engels à Edição de 1891 de "A Guerra Civil em França", 1891.
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
17 October 2008: Added to the Portuguese Molotov Archive:
Discurso na Assembléia de Eleitores Realizada no Distrito Eleitoral «Mólotov», de Moscou, 1954
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
16 October 2008: Added to the Portuguese Ho Chi Minh Archive:
Recomendações ao I Congresso Nacional de Educação dos Quadros, 1950
[Thanks to Rafael Freire and Fernando Araújo]
16 October 2008: Added to the Josef Stalin Archive:
History of the C.P.S.U.(B) (Short Course)
History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course tells the story of the early years of the CPSU as seen through the eyes of Joseph Stalin. The text includes polemical expositions on the development of the Bolsheviks and their evolution from a fledgeling revolutionary movement to the dominating political power in Soviet Russia. Stalin also writes extensively on the power struggle and paradigm shift following the death of V.I. Lenin in 1924 and the political intrigue and upheaval which followed into the 1930s.
History of the CPSU(b): Short Course was an essential and authoritative text within the Soviet Union from its publication in 1939 until the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU in 1956.
This new transcription was prepared for MIA by Salil Sen in September and October of 2008.
[Thanks to Salil Sen]
15 October 2008: Added to the German Archiv Eduard Bernstein:
Noch etwas Endziel und Bewegung (Some more on the final goal and the movement) (1899)(Bernstein’s response to the criticism of his statement that he placed more importance on the movement than the final goal)
An meine socialistischen Kritiker (To my socialist critics) (1900) (Bernstein’ response to the critics of his book)
Zum Thema Socialliberalismus und Collectivismus (On the subject of social liberalism and collectivism) (1900)
Naturprincipien und Wirtschaftsfragen (Principles of nature and economic questions) (1900)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
15 October 2008: Added to the German Archiv Julian Borchardt:
Ueber Zweck und Methode der Geschichtswissenschaft vom sozialistischen Standpunkt (On the purpose and method of the science of history from a socialist point of view) (1899)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
15 October 2008: Added to the news German Archiv Hermann Duncker:
Eine Philosophie für das Proletariat (A philosophy for teh proletariat) (1897)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
15 October 2008: Added to the new German Archiv Maxim Gorki:
Sechsundzwanzig und eine (Twenty-six and one) (1900) (short story)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
15 October 2008: Added to the German Archiv Rosa Luxemburg:
Der Sozialismus in Polen (Socialism in Poland) (1897)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
15 October 2008: Added to the German Archiv Tom Mann:
Der Sozialismus in England (Socialism in England) (1897)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
15 October 2008: Added to the MIA Political Economy section:
Helen Yaffe—Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara: a rebel against Soviet Political Economy This document discusses Che Guevara’s views on Soviet Political Economy, based on archival sources, recently published writings and interviews with some of Che's compañeros. Helen Yaffe is author of Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution.
15 October 2008: Added to the Celia Hart Internet Archive are 4 articles from collected from 2006. Original collection from the Walter Lippmann Celia Hart collection:
Fidel and Trotsky Article
Mexico: Now The Real Campaign Begins Analysis given to Freedom Socialist newspaper [US]
Morning Star interview with Celia Hart Analysis given to Morning Start [UK] newspaper
Pink Elections in Nicaragua Article
15 October 2008: Added to the Albert Glotzer (Albert Gates) Archive:
Sixteen Years Of Terror (1940)
[Thanks to Damon Maxwell]
14 October 2008: Added to the French Language Section of the MIA have added documents to the following writers archives:
Trotsky:
Discussion sur le Labor Party (31 mai 1938)
Lénine:
Un pas en avant, deux pas en arrière (Réponse de N.Lénine à Rosa Luxemburg) (1904)
Alexandra Kollontaï:
Article autobiographique (1925)
Antonio Gramsci:
Notes sur Machiavel, sur la politique et sur le Prince moderne
Lettre à Palmiro Togliatti (1923))
L'expérience des métallurgistes en faveur d'une action généralisée (1922)
[Thanks to the French language volunteers of the MIA]
14 October 2008: Added to the Peking Review subject archive from Volume 15, No. 33, August 18, 1972:
Consideration of ‘Bangla Deshs’ Application for U.N. Membership Opposed
Conference of Foreign Ministers of Non-Aligned Countries
“At U.N. Sea-Bed Committee: No Superpowers’ Control of the Seas Is Allowed”
Housing the Working People
Vigorus Communists: Leaders of Emancipated Slaves
[Thanks to massline.org for allowing us to mirror these issues of Peking Review]
13 October 2008: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Que é Formação Econômico-Social. Wrote by V. Platkóvski and S. Titarenko.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
12 October 2008: Added to the Tom Wintringham Archive:
Modern Weapons and Warfare, (1932)
Artists’ International, (1934)
Present Phase of the Arms Race, (1935)
Arrested on charges of ?seditious conspiracy?, (1925) (Photograph)
Tom Wintringham in Spain (Photograph)
The Tom Mann Centuria (Photograph)
* Updates relating to the Communist Party of Great Britain History Archive can also be found on the CPGB’s What’s New Page
[Thanks to Phyll Smith]
12 October 2008: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line has added the following 3 editorials from the December 1936 issue of the Socialist Appeal [Chicago] theoretical journal of the US Trotskyist movement operating inside the Socialist Party of America:
The Road Ahead: A Draft Platform for the Socialist Party
The N. E. C. Meeting
The Left Wing Stands for Its Rights in New York
[Thanks to Damon Maxwell]
12 October 2008: Added to the Albert Goldman Archive:
Toward Socialist Clarity (1936)
[Thanks to Damon Maxwell]
12 October 2008: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Experiências do PCUS: A Seleção e a Educação dos Quadros Propagandistas. Wrote by A. Vakhmistróv.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
12 October 2008: Added to the Guy Debord Archive:
Never Work, 1963
[New translation by Mitchell Abidor for the MIA]
11 Oct 2008: Added to the Tom Wintringham Archive:
Mediation in Industrial Disputes , (1923)
The Crime of R101, (1930)
* Updates relating to the Communist Party of Great Britain History Archive can also be found on the CPGB’s What’s New Page
[Thanks to Phyll Smith]
11 October 2008: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
A Reprodução Socialista Ampliada. Wrote by O. Gubariéva.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
10 October 2008: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
A Formação da República Democrática Alemã - Reviravolta Decisiva na História da Europa. Wrote by I. Fedotov.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
9 October 2008: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive:
Uncle Sam & Brother Jonathan. This is a serial of over 280 chapters of a running dialogue between two fictitious characters, “Uncle Sam” (who looks like the character symbolic of the United States and who represents the ideas of capitalism), and “Brother Jonathan” (a shorter, squatter figure who is replete with a working class sensibility as regards to those that exploit him), that De Leon created as a way to discuss, in a pedagogical manner, the issues of capitalism and it’s solution, socialism. The series ran in The Daily People and The People, the newspaper of the Socialist Labor Party, from 1891 through 1899.
[Thanks to Robert Bills and the Socialist Labor Party of the US]
9 October 2008: Added to the Portuguese Mandel Archive:
O Exemplo do «Che» Guevara Inspirará Milhões de Militantes do Mundo, 1967
[Thanks to José André Lôpez Gonçâlez and Fernando Araújo]
8 October 2008: Added to the Dietzgen Archive:
The Inconceivable: A Special Chapter in Social-Democratic Philosophy, 1877
Our Professors on the Limits of Cognition, 1878
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
8 October 2008: Added to the Dietzgen Archive:
Our Professors on the Limits of Cognition, 1878
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
6 October, 2008: Following documents have been added to Serbo-Croatian Karl Marx Archive:
Instrukcije delegatima privremenog generalnog savjeta po pojedinim pitanjima (3. septembar 1866.)
[Thanks to Marko Rakićević and Stevan Gostojić]
6 October 2008: Added to the Guy Debord Archive:
Psychogeographic Fragmentation of London Agglomeration, 1956
On Chance, 1957
Reflections on Architecture, 1959
[New translation by Mitchell Abidor for the MIA]
6 October 2008: Added to the Portuguese Temática Archive:
Extensão da Crise Econômica nos Países Capitalistas. Wrote by V. Leonídov.
[Thanks to Fernando Araújo]
5 October 2008: Added to the Albert Glotzer (Albert Gates) Archive:
The Inter-American Cartel (1940)
[Thanks to Damon Maxwell]
5 October 2008: Added to the New International Archive 1940-1946 An editorial and an article from the June, 1940 issue:
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity 1789-1940
Nature of German Economy by D.L. Robbins
[Thanks to Damon Maxwell]
5 October 2008: Added to the Collected Works Index, on-going project for the J. V Stalin Archive:
Volume 12 (Entire volume)
[Thanks to Brian Reid]
5 October 2008: Added to the Marxism and Anti-Imperialism in India Subject Archive:
On Japanese Rearmament: An Indian View (June 16, 1951)
[Thanks to Mike B. and Sukla Sen]
5 October 2008: Added to the Marxism and Anti-Imperialism in India Subject Archive:
On Japanese Rearmament: An Indian View (June 16, 1951)
[Thanks to Mike B. and Sukla Sen]
4 October 2008: The slow work of completing the V.I. Lenin Collected Works has restarted with the final 20% of Volume 37. This work is a combination work as they are listed in the Appendicies of this volume and are not by Lenin but by Nadezhda K. Krupskaya, wife and advisor to Lenin. These are personal letters by Krupskaya to Lenin’s mother and sister, Anna. The letters will be indexed both in Volume 37’s Appendix and in the Nadezhda K. Krupskaya Internet Archive. After Volume 37 is complete, this will leave most of Volumes 39 and 40 to finish in order to complete the whole of the LCW 45 volumes.
[Thanks to David Walters]
4 October 2008: Added to the Peking Review subject archive are 4 articles from 1965 and 1966, the early days of the Cultural Revolion and the Sino-Soviet confluct:
“South Vietnamese People’s Five Years of Victorious Struggle”
“Why U.S. Opposes a Return to the Gold Standard”
“Continued Weakening of U.S. Economic Position in the Capitalist World”
“Industrial Management in China - How China’s Socialist State-Owned Industrial Enterprises Are Managed”
[Thanks to massline.org for allowing us to mirror these issues of Peking Review]
4 October 2008: Added to the Daniel De Leon Internet Archive is his 1907 series of letters on political economy:
As to Politics
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
4 October, 2008: Following documents have been added to Serbo-Croatian Vladimir Ilič Lenjin Archive:
Nova vremena, stare griješke u novom vidu (20. avgust 1921.)
O tezama po agrarnom pitanju Francuske komunističke partije (11. decembar 1921.)
Platili smo odveć skupo (9 April 1922.)
[Thanks to Marko Rakićević and Stevan Gostojić]
4 October 2008: Added to the German Archiv Wilhelm Liebknecht:
Die Revolution ist todt. Es lebe die Revolution! (The Revolution is dead. Long live the Revolution! –: 1898) (Article commemorating the 1848 Revolution in Germany)
Eleanor Marx (1898) (obituary of Eleanor Marx)
Die Sozialdemokratie in Oberschlesien (Social Democracy in Upper Silesia – 1898) (comment on nationalism in Silesia, where there was a large Polish minority)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
4 October 2008: Added to the new German Archiv Julian Borchardt:
Welche Bedeutung hat die Wissenschaft für den Sozialismus? (What significance does science have have for socialism? –: 1898)
Welche Bedeutung hat die Wissenschaft für den Sozialismus? – Fortsetzung (1898) (What significance does science have have for socialism? – Continuation –: 1898)
Welche Bedeutung hat die Wissenschaft für den Sozialismus? – Schluss (What significance does science have have for socialism? – Conclusion –: 1898)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
4 October 2008: Added to the new German Archiv Tom Mann:
Der Maschinenbauer-Streik in England (The engineers’ strike in England –: 1898)
[Thanks to Einde O’Callaghan]
4 October 2008: Added to the new German Archiv Tom Mann:
Brief an Bruno Granz (Letter to Bruno Granz –: 1927)
[Thanks to Marxistische Bibliothek (now defunct)]
4 October 2008: Added to the Albert Glotzer (Albert Gates) Archive:
A New Horizon for American Imperialism (1940)
[Thanks to Damon Maxwell]
4 October 2008: Added to the new Ernest Erber Archive:
Marxism and National Defense (1940)
[Thanks to Damon Maxwell]
4 October 2008: Added to the Henry Judd Archive:
The Real RDR – A Reply (1949)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
4 October 2008: Added to the Dwight Macdonald Archive:
Reading from Left to Right (1940)
[Thanks to Damon Maxwell]
4 October 2008: Added to the Max Shachtman Archive:
Tito versus Stalin (1948)
Left Wing of the Labor Movement? (1949) (critique of Stalinist parties in the West)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
4 October 2008: Added to the New International Archive, 1940-1946:
Editorial: Political Trends in America (1940)
Philip Sherman: Marxism and Deweyism (1940)
W. Brooks: On the Meaning of “Property” (letter) (1946)
Roger Judson: On Germany (letter) (1946)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford & Damon Maxwell]
4 October 2008: Added to the New International Archive, 1947-1958:
Ricky Saunders: Inside the Stalin-Hitler Deal (1948)
Jacques: The RDR – An Interpretation (1949)
Jacques: Stalinism in Germany (1949)
R. Harper: England: Grim Island Kingdom (1949)
H.F.: German Labor Trends (1949)
Roger Martin: Journey Into Sedistan (Germany’s East Zone) (1949)
[Thanks to Ted Crawford]
3 October 2008: Added to the Portuguese Marx/Engels Archive:
Discurso Sobre a Acção Política da Classe Operária, 1871.
[Thanks to Edições Avante! and Fernando Araújo]
1 October 2008: The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line has added the following 6 articles from the November 1936 issues of the Socialist Appeal [Chicago] theoretical journal of the US Trotskyist movement operating inside the Socialist Party of America:
Has France Found Her Man on Horseback?, Edward J. Oakes
After The A. F. Of L. Split – What ?, Arne Swabeck
ON THE LABOR PARTY, Carl Pemble and Gardner S. Wells
War and the Comintern, JACK WEBER
Spain and the Campaign, BY GLEN TRIMBLE
A Letter From Spain, MAX STERLING
[Thanks to Damon Maxwell]
1 October 2008: Added to the French Revolution History Archive:
Rules of the Society of Social Harmony of Sans Culottes and Defenders of the Constitution
[Thanks to Mitch Abidor]