Marxist Roots of Stalinism

Kołakowski, Leszek

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“…With regard to proletarian dictatorship, Kołakowski plays on Marx's ambiguity that it can mean class domination, not necessarily political and authoritarian domination, although the latter cannot be fully excluded. Finally, Marx's post-revolutionary world is definitely a united one, but unity is a chimera that undermines democracy and can only be imposed by dictatorial means (Kołakowski, 1977).…”

Section: The Question Of Totalitarianismmentioning

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Reading Campeanu through Lewin: A contribution to the political history of Stalinism

Copilaş

2023

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Owing to various reasons, Stalinism still represents, according to this essay, a fertile intellectual topic. Therefore, my aim here is to offer a reading of Pavel Campeanu’s works on Stalinism – a relatively unknown Romanian Marxist – through the social history of the Soviet Union in general and of Stalinism in particular advanced by Moshe Lewin. The argumentation advances by taking into account the overall historical frame of the debate (Eastern and Western Marxism during the Cold War) and by stressing some key issues like primitive accumulation, legitimacy, a certain overstretching of the concept of Stalinism and, finally, the issue of totalitarianism. The stake of the essay resides in claiming that Campeanu’s analyses of Stalinism, original and convincing as they are, may favor, in the above-mentioned issues, and regardless the author’s intentions, interpretations belonging to or deriving from the totalitarian school of Cold War and Soviet Studies.

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Section: The Question Of Totalitarianismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reading Campeanu through Lewin: A contribution to the political history of Stalinism

Copilaş

2023

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“…Questions focused less on the applicability of Marxism and turned more towards whether Marxism always resulted in a totalitarian regime, since applications of Marxism in other countries have similarly resulted in such systems (Femia, 1993). While it is difficult to apply the term "Marxism" to any national system without ample room for debate, there is little doubt that Soviet Communism was not so much an ideal implementation but more of a mutation of Marxism (Femia, 1993, Kolakowski, 1977. However, any embodiments of political science philosophies have deviations from their ideological baseline elements.…”

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Post-crisis Belarus: Marxism and the lender of last resort

Bell

2015

Journal of Eurasian Studies

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Existing literature has examined the predictions and proscriptions of Karl Marx in response to the 2008 global financial crisis. However, the suggestions put forth by the Marxist-leaning literature never took hold and state-level banking and finance policies have remained largely unchanged. While many criticisms of Marxism exist, this paper examines Belarus, a 'neo-communist' or 'market-socialist' state, to provide a new perspective on the continuation of capitalism in the United States and Europe. In the case of Belarus, the International Monetary Fund and the Eurasian Economic Community's Anti-Crisis Fund provided both the critical liquidity needed to temporarily quell the effects of the financial crisis. Their demands meant that Belarus agreed to speed its move away from the Soviet-era finance and banking policies and more towards its western capitalist neighbors. Its failure to implement these policies further hurt its recovery. Examining Belarus' path to and out of its financial crisis makes apparent that the role of the international lender of last resort (LOLR). The LOLR acts as a key element in protecting states embroiled in the financial crisis from facing the possibility of making the difficult policy changes put forth by the Marxist literature. By ignoring its promises under the loan conditions from its LOLRs, Belarus moved further from the recovery promised by the Marxist suggestions.

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Poland's Solidarity Movement and the Global Politics of Human Rights

Brier¹

2021

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In the historiography of human rights, the 1980s feature as little more than an afterthought to the human rights breakthrough of the previous decade. Through an examination of one of the major actors of recent human rights history – Poland's Solidarity movement – Robert Brier challenges this view. Suppressed in 1981, Poland's Solidarity movement was supported by a surprisingly diverse array of international groups: US Cold Warriors, French left-wing intellectuals, trade unionists, Amnesty International, even Chilean opponents of the Pinochet regime. By unpacking the politics and transnational discourses of these groups, Brier demonstrates how precarious the position of human rights in international politics remained well into the 1980s. More importantly, he shows that human rights were a profoundly political and highly contested language, which actors in East and West adopted to redefine their social and political identities in times of momentous cultural and intellectual change.

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Marxist Roots of Stalinism

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Reading Campeanu through Lewin: A contribution to the political history of Stalinism

Reading Campeanu through Lewin: A contribution to the political history of Stalinism

Post-crisis Belarus: Marxism and the lender of last resort

Poland's Solidarity Movement and the Global Politics of Human Rights

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