Marxist critiques

Opposition and critiques of Marxist-Leninist, “socialist”, “anti-imperialist” states, organizations, figures and their Ideologies from other Marxists.

* "JCP protests China’s National Security Law over Hong Kong" by Kazuo Shii https://www.jcp.or.jp/english/jcpcc/blog/2020/05/20200528-hong-kong.html [EN]
* “Japanese Communist Party's long goodbye to its China comrades“ by Yuri Momoi https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Inside-Japanese-politics/Japanese-Communist-Party-s-long-goodbye-to-its-China-comrades [EN]
* “Chinese Communist Party’s ‘chauvinism’ a threat to peace: Japanese counterpart“ by Julian Ryall https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3046856/chinese-communist-partys-chauvinism-threat-peace-japanese [EN] (owned by Alibaba)
* “Japanese Communist Party slams China in first platform change since 2004” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/18/national/politics-diplomacy/japanese-communist-party-china-platform/ [EN]
* "Shii calls for immediate release of 3 Hong Kong democracy activists" https://www.japan-press.co.jp/s/news/index.php?id=13328 [EN]
* "JCP again demands immediate end to human-rights suppression in Hong Kong" https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=13119 [EN]
* "JCP Chair protests police suppression of civil demonstrations in Hong Kong" https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=12945 [EN]
* "Shii condemns China’s imposition of national security legislation on Hong Kong" https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=12961 [EN]
* "JCP protests the enactment of 'Hong Kong National Security Law' and calls for its withdrawal" https://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=13027 [EN]
* "National Security Law — Xi Jinping’s “Nuclear Option”" by Per-Ake Westerlund and Vincent Kolo https://internationalsocialist.net/en/2020/07/hong-kong [EN]

### **Critiques**

* "How the Japanese Communist Party Developed its Theory of Scientific Socialism" https://www.jcp.or.jp/english/jcpcc/blog/2016/04/how-the-japanese-communist-party.html [EN]
* "Economic content of socialism in Lenin; is it the same as in Marx?" by Paresh Chattopadhyay https://libcom.org/files/Paresh%20Chattopadhyay-%20Economic%20Content%20of%20Socialism%20in%20Lenin\_0.pdf [PDF, 627.82 KB, EN]
* “The State and Counter-Revolution: A Critical History of the Marxist Theory of the State” by Tom Clark https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-1a/tom-clark/index.htm [EN]
* “Community and Communism in Russia” by Jacques Camatte https://libcom.org/files/Jacques%20Camatte-%20Community%20and%20Communism%20in%20Russia.pdf [PDF, 512 KB, EN]
* “Mao’s China, Certified Copy of the Bourgeois Capitalist Society” by Amadeo Bordiga http://materialnecessity.org/2019/09/05/maos-china-certified-copy-of-the-bourgeois-capitalist-society-1957/ [EN] (Italian left-communist)
* “Facing Reality” by CLR James and Grace Lee Boggs https://libcom.org/files/James%20-%20Facing%20Reality.pdf [PDF, 6.72 MB, EN]
* "Left Communism in China" https://web.archive.org/web/20090924043114/http://internationalist.webs.com/index.htm [EN]
* "Freedom, Subjectivity and Lenin’s Philosophy" by Don Cuckson and Cyril Smith https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-cyril/works/articles/lenin.htm [EN]
* “Russia 1905" by International Communist Current https://en.internationalism.org/series/340 [EN]

* “Mészáros On Lenin" by Cyril Smith https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-cyril/works/articles/meszaros.htm [EN]
* "'New Trends of Thought' on the Cultural Revolution" by Wang Shaoguang https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gpa/wang\_files/Newtrend.pdf [PDF, 148 KB, EN]
* "The National Assembly – A Bourgeois Organ of Power" https://leftcomvietnam.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-national-assembly-bourgeois-organ.html [EN]
* "Thesis on the Vietnamese Revolution" https://leftcomvietnam.blogspot.com/2020/10/thesis-on-vietnamese-revolution.html [EN]
* "On Vietnam - Ngo Van Xuyet" https://libcom.org/library/vietnam-0 [EN]
* "Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy [Leninism or Marxism?]" by Rosa Luxemburghttps://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1904/questions-rsd/index.htm [EN]

* **Anton Pannekoek:**
	+ “Lenin as Philosopher” https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1938/lenin/index.htm [EN]
	+ “Class Struggle and Nation” https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1912/nation.htm [EN]
	+ “Liberal and Imperial Marxism” https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1915/liberal.htm [EN]
	+ “World Revolution and Communist Tactics” https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1920/communist-tactics.htm [EN]
	+ “State Capitalism and Dictatorship” https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1936/dictatorship.htm [EN]
	+ “On the Communist Party” https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1936/06/communist-party.htm [EN]
	+ “Party and Working Class” https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1936/party-working-class.htm [EN]
	+ Revised a few years later: https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1936/09/party-working-class.htm [EN]
	+ “Why Past Revolutionary Movements Have Failed” https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1940/revo.htm [EN]
	+ “Public Ownership and Common Ownership” https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1947/public-ownership.htm [EN]
	+ "Workers' Councils" https://libcom.org/files/Pannekoek%20-%20Workers'%20Councils.pdf [PDF, 7.9 MB, EN]
* **Maurice Brinton:**
	+ “Socialism Reaffirmed” https://libcom.org/library/socialism-reaffirmed-maurice-brinton [EN]
	+ Preface to Ida Mett’s “The Kronstadt Commune” https://www.marxists.org/archive/brinton/1967/11/mett.htm [EN]
	+ “The Commune, Paris 1871” https://www.marxists.org/archive/brinton/1961/05/paris-commune.htm [EN]
* **Paul Mattick:**
	+ “Anti-Bolshevik Communism” https://libcom.org/files/paul-mattick-anti-bolshevik-communism-2007\_0.pdf [PDF, 3.08 MB, EN]
		- Intro: https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1978/introduction.htm [EN]
	+ “Bolshevism and Stalinism”: https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1947/bolshevism-stalinism.htm [EN]
	+ “Leninism or Marxism?” (Intro) https://www.marxists.org/subject/left-wing/icc/1935/02/introduction.htm [EN]
	+ “Luxemburg Vs Lenin” https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1936/luxemburg-lenin.htm [EN]
	+ Anti-Bolshevist Communism in Germany” http://libcom.org/library/anti-bolshevist-communism-germany-paul-mattick [EN]
	+ “The Lenin Legend” http://libcom.org/library/the-lenin-legend-mattick [EN]
	+ “The Masses and the Vanguard” http://libcom.org/library/the-masses-and-the-vanguard-mattick [EN]
* **Otto Rühle:**
	+ “The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism” https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1939/ruhle01.htm [EN]
	+ “Report from Moscow” https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1920/ruhle01.htm [EN]
	+ “The Revolution is not a Party Affair” https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1920/ruhle02.htm [EN]
	+ “From the Bourgeois to the Proletarian Revolution” https://www.marxists.org/archive/ruhle/1924/revolution.htm [EN]
* **Karl Korsch:**
	+ “The State and Counterrevolution” https://www.marxists.org/archive/korsch/1939/state-counterrevolution.htm [EN]

### **Magazine Articles**

* "Cuba in 1968" by Samuel Farber https://jacobinmag.com/2018/04/cuba-1968-fidel-castro-revolution-repression [EN]

### **Audiobooks**

* "The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism - Otto Rühle" uploaded by AudibleAnarchist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFS8uvS3CY8 [44:17, EN]

### **Encyclopedia**

* "Johnson–Forest Tendency" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson–Forest\_Tendency [EN]