The 1905 revolution and its lessons
by Doug LorimerDoug Lorimer is a member of the National Executive of the Democratic Socialist Perspective in Australia. This is a talk presented to the DSP's January 2005 Marxism Summer School....
View ArticleSome remarks on democracy and debate in the Bolshevik Party
By Murray SmithThe Second InternationalSplit and unity, 1905-06The party reconstituted in 1912Public debatesThe Bolshevik factionDebates in the Bolshevik PartyBolshevik debates in 1917 and...
View ArticleThe Bolshevik Party and 'Zinovievism': Comments on a caricature of Leninism
By Doug Lorimer1921 Comintern resolutionPublic debateParty disciplineIdeological heterogeneityLenin's struggle for a Marxist partyNotesThe disintegration of the Stalinist regimes in Eastern Europe and...
View ArticleEither A 'Socialist Revolution Or A Make-Believe Revolution': A Rejoinder to...
By Phil HearseThe DSP's position on revolutions in the dominated countriesThe socialist revolution, Russia and SpainRussia: how the revolution opened the way for capitalism and bourgeois rule...
View ArticleImperialist economism, democracy and the socialist revolution
By Doug LorimerOnce again on the purpose of my pamphlet'Two Tactics' and the bourgeois revolutionThe 'democratic dictatorship' and the bourgeois republicLenin's and Trotsky's 'conceptions' of the...
View ArticleIn Defence of Lenin's Marxist Policy of a Two-Stage, Uninterrupted Revolution
By Doug LorimerTransformation of the democratic revolution into a socialist revolutionBolshevik policy and Two TacticsWhat is the socialist revolution?'Logical contradiction' and Lenin's conceptionThe...
View ArticleConference reaffirms Marxism in the 21st century
By Margaret Allum"In the world, the tendency today is to bury Marxism and communism. The equation is simple: the collapse of the European socialist bloc is the end of the ideology and the theory that...
View ArticleMarxism or Bauerite nationalism?
By Doug LorimerHistorical materialist theoryBauer's theory of nationsNecessary but not sufficient characteristics'Cultural-national autonomy'Oppressed and oppressor nationsReactionary consequences of...
View ArticleTrotsky's theory of permanent revolution: A long and still relevant debate
By John NebauerReview of Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution: A Leninist critique, by Doug Lorimer, Resistance Books, Sydney, 1998, A$6.95.John Nebauer is a member of the Democratic Socialist...
View ArticleThe Bolshevik Party and democratic centralism: A response to Murray Smith
By Doug LorimerIn Links No. 26, Murray Smith, a former leading member of the Scottish Socialist Party and now a leading member of the Ligue CommunisteRévolutionnaire (the French section of the...
View ArticleThe Cuban Revolution and its leadership: A criticism of Peter Taaffe's...
The following article was written at the request of Farooq Tariq, general secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, as an initial contribution to a discussion between the LPP and the DSP on the character...
View ArticleSome more comments on Peter Taaffe's Cuba book
[This article first appeared in the Democratic Socialist Party's internal discussion bulletin The Activist - Volume 10, Number 9, October 2000.] By Doug LorimerLast year I wrote a letter to Farooq...
View ArticleThe DSP and the Fourth International
IntroductionOn August 17, 1985 the National Committee of the Democratic Socialist Perpective (then named the Socialist Workers Party) voted to end the party’s affiliation to the Fourth International,...
View ArticleNATO's Balkan war and the Kosova liberation struggle
By Doug Lorimer [The general line of this report was adopted by the June 12-14, 1999 DSP National Committee plenum. Text is taken from The Activist, volume 9, number 5, 1999] On Wednesday March 24,...
View ArticleTeori Revolusi Permanen Trotsky: Suatu perdebatan panjang yang masih relevan
[Klik di sini untuk artikel-artikel Links dalam Bahasa Indonesia]Oleh John Nebauer, anggota Partai Sosialis Demokratik Australia (DSP)Ulasan dari buku Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution: A...
View ArticleHow the Communist Party of Australia exposes the Democratic Socialist Party's...
By Doug Lorimer[This article first appeared in the Democratic Socialist Party's internal discussion bulletin, The Activist, volume 10, number 7, August 2000.]The Communist Party of Australia has...
View ArticleThe collapse of 'communism' in the USSR: Its causes and significance
By Doug Lorimer Doug Lorimer is a member of the National Executive of the DSP. This article is based on a report adopted by the 14th National Conference of the DSP, held in Sydney, January 2-6, 1992....
View ArticleThe class nature of the Chinese state
By Doug Lorimer [The general line of this report was adopted by the 18th DSP Congress, January 5-10, 1999. This text is taken from The Activist, volume 9, number 1, 1999.] The purpose of this report is...
View ArticleDoug Lorimer's introduction to 'Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism'
Introduction by Doug LorimerI. Lenin's aims in writing this work The term "imperialism" came into common usage in England in the 1890s as a development of the older term "empire" by the advocates of a...
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