Eric Blanc Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/authors/eric-blanc/ MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY Wed, 20 Oct 2021 23:06:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.10 https://i0.wp.com/johnriddell.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-John-Riddell-Icon-Final-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Eric Blanc Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/authors/eric-blanc/ 32 32 22825446 Socialists Should Take the Right Lessons from the Russian Revolution https://johnriddell.com/2021/08/09/socialists-should-take-the-right-lessons-from-the-russian-revolution/ https://johnriddell.com/2021/08/09/socialists-should-take-the-right-lessons-from-the-russian-revolution/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2021 14:38:00 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=7212 The following article was first published in ‘Jacobin’ and is reposted by permission. Eric develops here themes discussed more fully in his new book, Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882–1917). A list of related posts by on this website is appended to the article. A comment on this article by Mike […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2021/08/09/socialists-should-take-the-right-lessons-from-the-russian-revolution/feed/ 2 7212 A Bold New Dimension of Socialist History https://johnriddell.com/2021/06/28/rev-soc-dem-1/ https://johnriddell.com/2021/06/28/rev-soc-dem-1/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2021 14:40:37 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=7074 ‘Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882-1917)’, by Eric Blanc Eric Blanc’s new book, Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882-1917) re-examines the development of revolutionary politics in Russia from an empire-wide perspective. By expanding our geographic scope to include the imperial borderlands, the Eric’s book challenges long-held assumptions about […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2021/06/28/rev-soc-dem-1/feed/ 1 7074 The democratic road to socialism: A reply to Mike Taber https://johnriddell.com/2019/04/11/the-democratic-road-to-socialism-a-reply-to-mike-taber/ https://johnriddell.com/2019/04/11/the-democratic-road-to-socialism-a-reply-to-mike-taber/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:19:58 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=5288 By Eric Blanc: I wrote my piece on Marxist theorist Karl Kautsky’s pre-1910 strategy on the democratic road to socialism in the hopes of helping socialists today sharpen our political strategy. Moving beyond various unfounded assumptions about working-class politics and history — particularly regarding the generalizability of the October 1917 model for capitalist democracies — […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2019/04/11/the-democratic-road-to-socialism-a-reply-to-mike-taber/feed/ 4 5288 Why Kautsky was right (and why you should care) https://johnriddell.com/2019/04/05/why-kautsky-was-right-and-why-you-should-care/ https://johnriddell.com/2019/04/05/why-kautsky-was-right-and-why-you-should-care/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2019 20:14:35 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=5274 by Eric Blanc The article that follows first appeared in Jacobin, and is reprinted by permission of the author. The text is followed by references to related articles by Eric Blanc. Karl Kautsky’s vision for winning democratic socialism is more radical, and more relevant, than most leftists care to admit. With the recent upsurge in […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2019/04/05/why-kautsky-was-right-and-why-you-should-care/feed/ 5 5274 Rosa Luxemburg, national liberation, and the defeated Polish revolution https://johnriddell.com/2018/02/22/rosa-luxemburg-national-liberation-and-the-defeated-polish-revolution/ https://johnriddell.com/2018/02/22/rosa-luxemburg-national-liberation-and-the-defeated-polish-revolution/#comments Thu, 22 Feb 2018 20:17:45 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=4994 Part 3 of ‘Rosa Luxemburg and Polish socialism (1893-1919)’ The following piece is an edited excerpt from ‘The Rosa Luxemburg Myth: A Critique of Luxemburg’s Politics in Poland (1893–1919)’, published in Historical Materialism 2018, 26, 1: 1-34. Click here for subscriptions to Historical Materialism. See also: “Part 1: Rosa Luxemburg’s Bloc with the SPD Bureaucracy.” […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2018/02/22/rosa-luxemburg-national-liberation-and-the-defeated-polish-revolution/feed/ 2 4994 Rosa Luxemburg and the revolutionary party revisited https://johnriddell.com/2018/02/13/rosa-luxemburg-and-the-revolutionary-party-revisited/ https://johnriddell.com/2018/02/13/rosa-luxemburg-and-the-revolutionary-party-revisited/#respond Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:01:30 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=4986 Part 2 of ‘Rosa Luxemburg and Polish socialism (1893-1919)’ By Eric Blanc. The following text is an edited excerpt from ‘The Rosa Luxemburg Myth: A Critique of Luxemburg’s Politics in Poland (1893–1919)’, published in Historical Materialism (2018, 26, 1: 1-34.) Click here for subscriptions to Historical Materialism. See also “Part 1: Rosa Luxemburg’s Bloc with the […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2018/02/13/rosa-luxemburg-and-the-revolutionary-party-revisited/feed/ 0 4986 Rosa Luxemburg’s bloc with the SPD bureaucracy https://johnriddell.com/2018/02/01/rosa-luxemburgs-bloc-with-the-spd-bureaucracy/ https://johnriddell.com/2018/02/01/rosa-luxemburgs-bloc-with-the-spd-bureaucracy/#comments Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:29:49 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=4953 Part 1 of ‘Rosa Luxemburg and Polish socialism (1893-1919)’ By Eric Blanc. The following text is an edited excerpt from ‘The Rosa Luxemburg Myth: A Critique of Luxemburg’s Politics in Poland (1893–1919)’, published in Historical Materialism 2018, 26, 1: 1-34. Click here for subscriptions to Historical Materialism. Spanish translation available in “Sin Permiso“ Introduction Rosa Luxemburg’s […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2018/02/01/rosa-luxemburgs-bloc-with-the-spd-bureaucracy/feed/ 1 4953 Did the Bolsheviks advocate socialist revolution in 1917? https://johnriddell.com/2017/10/13/did-the-bolsheviks-advocate-socialist-revolution-in-1917/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/10/13/did-the-bolsheviks-advocate-socialist-revolution-in-1917/#comments Fri, 13 Oct 2017 20:55:47 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=4684 “The historiographical consensus [on this question] is factually inaccurate and has distorted our understanding of Bolshevism in 1917.” For a Spanish text see Viento Sur. For a French text, see Inprecor.fr. See also “The Bolsheviks in 1917: Index to a Debate” and “List of Articles by Eric Blanc.” By Eric Blanc. A critical engagement with the past […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2017/10/13/did-the-bolsheviks-advocate-socialist-revolution-in-1917/feed/ 1 4684 The Bolsheviks in 1917: Index to a Debate https://johnriddell.com/2017/10/12/the-bolsheviks-in-1917-index-to-a-debate/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/10/12/the-bolsheviks-in-1917-index-to-a-debate/#comments Fri, 13 Oct 2017 01:15:43 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=4680 The following are the contributions published so far in an ongoing discussion initiated by Lars Lih and Eric Blanc. ‘All Power to the Soviets’ A seven part series by Lars T. Lih Part 1: Biography of a slogan March 23, 2017 Appendix: Pravda: ‘Mandate for Soviet Elections’ March 23, 2017 Part 2: The Proletariat and Its Ally: The Logic of […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2017/10/12/the-bolsheviks-in-1917-index-to-a-debate/feed/ 2 4680 Assessing revolutionary social democracy: A response to Duncan Hart https://johnriddell.com/2017/07/13/assessing-revolutionary-social-democracy-a-response-to-duncan-hart/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/07/13/assessing-revolutionary-social-democracy-a-response-to-duncan-hart/#comments Fri, 14 Jul 2017 00:49:38 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=4231 – 1 – By Eric Blanc. First of all, I would like to thank Comrade Duncan Hart for his contribution “Lessons from Finland: Reply to Eric Blanc.” While I do not share its analysis, I agree that a serious discussion about the Finnish Revolution is useful for Marxists today. Though some of Hart’s criticisms of the […]

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