revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/rakosi530510.htm
Marxist-Leninist Theory
Matyas Rakosi, Speech Delivered at the Election Rally of the Hungarian People’s Independence Front in Budapest on May 10, 1953
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revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/revaihungpd.htm
mltheory.wordpress.com/2023/09/22/on-the-death-of-branting-the-revisionist-by-yrjo-sirola-1925
marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1919/01/14.htm
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marxists.org/archive/liebknecht-k/works/1919/01/inspite.html
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jbshaldane.org/bernal/bernal-1953-stalin-as-scientist.html
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mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/kaganovich_metro_moscow.pdf
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marxists.org/archive/dzerzhinsky/communist-morality/index.htm
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archive.org/details/georgi_dimitrov_selected_speeches_and_articles/page/n3/mode/2up
marxists.org/history/france/revolution/robespierre/1794/political-morality.htm
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marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1948/october-road.htm
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marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1900/nov/tasks.htm
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Link to the movie mentioned in the text:
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Work’s of Georgi Dimitrov [1951 edition. Later editions are censored and distorted by khrushchevite revisionists]
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marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/ebooks/yugoslav_selfadministration_a_capitalist_theory_and_practice.pdf
mltheory2.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/falsifiers-of-history.pdf
aka "Falsificators of History"
Stephen Brain is an anti-communist researcher but in this paper he demolishes the "old consensus view" and shows that environmentalism actually thrived in the Stalin era. Soviet environmental protection at the time protected soils from erosion by protecting forests. Soviet Union had the largest protected forest zones in the world. However, only 6 days after Stalin's death The Ministry of Forest Protection was abolished. Within a year of Stalin's death the number of forest management workers in Moscow alone was reduced from 927 to 120.
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0:00 CHAPTER 7. The Bolshevik Party in the period of preparation and realization of the October Socialist Revolution (April 1917-1918)
2:07:08 CHAPTER 8. The Bolshevik Party in the period of foreign military intervention and civil war (1918-1920)
3:10:51 CHAPTER 9. The Bolshevik Party in the period of transition to peaceful work of economic restoration (1921-1925)
4:41:25 CHAPTER 10. The Bolshevik Party in the struggle for the Socialist Industrialization of the country (1926-1929)
5:36:51 CHAPTER 11. The Bolshevik Party in the struggle for the Collectivization of Agriculture (1930-1934)
7:00:07 CHAPTER 12. The Bolshevik Party in the struggle to complete the building of the Socialist Society. Introduction of the New Constitution (1935-1937)
8:00:32 CONCLUSION
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0:00 INTRODUCTION
3:24 CHAPTER 1. The struggle for the creation of a Social-Democratic labour party in Russia (1883-1901)
1:10:04 CHAPTER 2. Formation of the Russian Social-Democratic labour party. Appearance of the Bolshevik and Menshevik groups within the party (1901-1904)
2:26:10 CHAPTER 3. The Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks in the period of the Russo-Japanese war and the first Russian revolution (1904-1907)
4:27:40 CHAPTER 4. The Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks in the period of the Stolypin reaction. The Bolsheviks constitute themselves an independent Marxist party (1908-1912)
6:53:48 CHAPTER 5. The Bolshevik party during the new rise of the working-class movement before the first imperialist war (1912-1914)
7:36:52 CHAPTER 6. The Bolshevik party in the period of the imperialist war. The second revolution in Russia (1914-March 1917)
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revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/Cominform1947.pdf
The version of Dimitrov's speech on Marxist Internet Archive was altered by Khrushchevites. You can read the original version here:
archive.org/details/selectedspeeches0000dimi/page/n9/mode/2up
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00:00:00 From the History of Science
00:49:46 Natural Science and Philosophy
1:18:52 Dialectics
2:51:19 Forms of Motion of Matter, Classification of the Sciences
3:35:17 Mathematics
4:25:47 Mechanics and Astronomy
4:42:25 Physics
5:20:57 Chemistry
5:23:50 Biology
0:00:00 Preface
0:20:04 Introduction
1:07:28 Dialectics
1:23:50 Basic Form of Motion
2:07:16 The Measure of Motion - Work
2:48:15 Heat
3:00:18 Electricity
5:28:45 Tidal Friction, Kant and Thomson-Tait on the Rotation of the Earth and Lunar Attraction
5:45:30 The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man
6:21:31 Natural Science and the Spirit World
Communist International Executive Committee, 1923
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THE TOPICS WHICH ZHDANOV COVERS ARE QUITE COMPLICATED AND DEEP, BUT I WILL TRY TO EXPLAIN CERTAIN THINGS:
ON ZVEZDA AND LENINGRAD
After WWII some officials in the USSR thought that it was time to relax and that the people needed mindless entertainment. They were even willing to accept entertainment with a reactionary message. Zhdanov strongly criticized this attitude in his speech about the magazines "Zvezda" and "Leningrad". He called it political blindness and focusing only on material needs but not culture.
Zhdanov defends the political, educational and sociological role of literature. Great literature has always said something about society. Zhdanov quotes Lenin's famous work "Party organization and party literature" where Lenin explains the need for a militant socialist literature.
ON MUSIC
Zhdanov criticized the Formalist Trend which had taken root among some Soviet composers. These composers were elitist and anti-democratic because they made music which the people didn't understand, and considered their art "too brilliant" for the people to understand it. These composers were out of touch with the people. They were anti-patriotic because they neglected the Russian classical music tradition and Folk Music tradition, instead they were fascinated with western fashions. They masked their activity behind "internationalism" but internationalism means friendship between nations. It doesn't mean ruining your own culture on behalf of western imperialist culture.
The Formalist composers wrote music without any social message. Special reviewers and critics had to try to "interpret" and "analyze" the "meaning" behind their songs. They wanted to neglect the content of the music and focus purely on its form, hence the term "Formalism". Under the slogan of Innovation they wanted to abandon the principles of classical music and follow the fashions of imperialist western music, such as atonality. These imperialist fashions really represent the destruction of musical principles and the decay of music.
The term "Socialist Realism" was originally developed in reference to literature, so the terminology might be confusing when referring to music. One might ask 'How can music be realistic?'. Realistic music is melodic, understandable and rooted in the people. Great composers have always taken ideas from folk music and enriched them. The opposite is Formalistic music which is not melodic but ugly, not understandable but instead a confusing mess of random notes. Such 'music' obviously is not rooted in the people either, but is concocted by out-of-touch elites.
Zhdanov also discusses "Naturalist" mistakes. Naturalism in painting is a fake realist trend. It paints photo realistic pictures, but is actually not realistic because it focuses on meaningless details and reduces painting to mere copying. A realistic picture would emphasize the significant features of a situation, and thus reveal what is REALLY happening. A realistic picture even reveals what is happening under the surface. It shows how the world really is. Naturalism is all about the surface level, all about the form, and not about the content.
Naturalism in music, means ignoring the difference between music and simply noise or sound. Random noises and sound effects are not music. They can enhance music, but only if used correctly and not too often. Formalists have always liked trendy gimmicks and effects and as a result have neglected the actually important parts of music: the melody, the harmony etc.
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