http://infrawiki.us/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Marxists_Behaving_BadlyMarxists Behaving Badly - Revision history2026-08-12T11:07:36ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.46.0http://infrawiki.us/index.php?title=Marxists_Behaving_Badly&diff=4108&oldid=previmported>Euneos Unruhe: Added hyperlink to collection of Volume 252023-03-01T20:58:00Z<p>Added hyperlink to collection of Volume 25</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Marxists Behaving Badly''' is an article written by [[Grover Furr]] published in<ref name=":0">https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/clogic/article/view/197798</ref> [https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/clogic/index Cultural Logic: A Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice] Volume 25 (2021), pages 51-71. It is licensed<ref name=":0" /> under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Marxists Behaving Badly''' is an article written by [[Grover Furr]] published in<ref name=":0">https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/clogic/article/view/197798</ref> [https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/clogic/index Cultural Logic: A Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/clogic/issue/view/183099 </ins>Volume 25<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">] </ins>(2021), pages 51-71. It is licensed<ref name=":0" /> under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Lenin wrote that “without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.”<ref>[https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/i.htm Lenin, What Is To Be Done?(1902), Chapter 1, Section D.]</ref> But what makes theory scientific, and so potentially revolutionary? That the theory is tested by an accurate understanding of the world, which is gained through practice.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Lenin wrote that “without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.”<ref>[https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/i.htm Lenin, What Is To Be Done?(1902), Chapter 1, Section D.]</ref> But what makes theory scientific, and so potentially revolutionary? That the theory is tested by an accurate understanding of the world, which is gained through practice.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Oxford English Dictionary identifies <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">thefirst </del> use of the word "Stalinism" in the English language:<blockquote>1927 Daily Tel.22 Nov. 10/3: A violent denunciation of ‘Stalinism’ and its ‘terrorising of the party’.</blockquote>This is reference to an article about the activities of Trotsky and other Oppositionists during and after the November 7, 1927, celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. The scare quotes indicate that the paper is quoting the Oppositionists. The Trotskyist site Marxists.org joins overtly pro-capitalist writers in stating:<blockquote>... '''Stalinism lastedlonger and was more total''' than fascism. But '''fascism and Stalinism shared in common...that they rested on absolute terror''' ... (ibid.)</blockquote>Marxists.org recognizes that “Stalinism” does not have any fixed meaning:<blockquote>...getting at the core definition of “Stalinism” [is] difficult, but not impossible.<ref>At <https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/s/t.htm#stalinism>.</ref> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Oxford English Dictionary identifies <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the first </ins> use of the word "Stalinism" in the English language:<blockquote>1927 Daily Tel.22 Nov. 10/3: A violent denunciation of ‘Stalinism’ and its ‘terrorising of the party’.</blockquote>This is reference to an article about the activities of Trotsky and other Oppositionists during and after the November 7, 1927, celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. The scare quotes indicate that the paper is quoting the Oppositionists. The Trotskyist site Marxists.org joins overtly pro-capitalist writers in stating:<blockquote>... '''Stalinism lastedlonger and was more total''' than fascism. But '''fascism and Stalinism shared in common...that they rested on absolute terror''' ... (ibid.)</blockquote>Marxists.org recognizes that “Stalinism” does not have any fixed meaning:<blockquote>...getting at the core definition of “Stalinism” [is] difficult, but not impossible.<ref>At <https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/s/t.htm#stalinism>.</ref> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The political tenets of Stalinism revolve around '''the theory of socialism in one country–developed by Stalin to counter <u>the Bolshevik theory</u> that the survival of the Russian Revolution depended on proletarian revolutions in Europe.''' In contradistinction, the Stalinist theory stipulates that a socialist society can be achieved within a single country.</blockquote>This is false. Marxists.org continues [emphasis [[Grover Furr|mine]]]:</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The political tenets of Stalinism revolve around '''the theory of socialism in one country–developed by Stalin to counter <u>the Bolshevik theory</u> that the survival of the Russian Revolution depended on proletarian revolutions in Europe.''' In contradistinction, the Stalinist theory stipulates that a socialist society can be achieved within a single country.</blockquote>This is false. Marxists.org continues [emphasis [[Grover Furr|mine]]]:</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>And yet, according to my calculations, '''in the entire history of Soviet power, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from1918 </del>to 1987 (the last arrests were in early 1987), according to the surviving documents, it turned out that 7 million 100 thousand people were arrested by security agencies across the country. At the same time, among them were arrested –and quite a lot –not only for political crimes'''. Yes, they were arrested by security agencies, but security agencies arrested people for banditry, smuggling, counterfeiting. And for many other “general-purpose” crimes . . .</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>And yet, according to my calculations, '''in the entire history of Soviet power, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from 1918 </ins>to 1987 (the last arrests were in early 1987), according to the surviving documents, it turned out that 7 million 100 thousand people were arrested by security agencies across the country. At the same time, among them were arrested –and quite a lot –not only for political crimes'''. Yes, they were arrested by security agencies, but security agencies arrested people for banditry, smuggling, counterfeiting. And for many other “general-purpose” crimes . . .</div></td></tr>
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