Authors Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/authors/ 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 Authors Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/authors/ 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 A Socialist Woman’s Experience with Sexism https://johnriddell.com/2021/03/12/a-socialist-womans-experience-with-sexism/ https://johnriddell.com/2021/03/12/a-socialist-womans-experience-with-sexism/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2021 17:08:54 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6769 By Suzanne Weiss: The following study was first published in ‘Against the Current,’ March-April 2021. It is reposted with permission from http://suzanneberlinerweiss.com. Contents: Barriers to Women’s Political Participation Women in Party Controversies A Transformative Feminist Radicalization My Party Loses Its Way 1. Barriers to Women’s Political Participation From its beginnings in the 1800s, modern socialism […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2021/03/12/a-socialist-womans-experience-with-sexism/feed/ 2 6769 How Democratic Centralism Was Applied https://johnriddell.com/2020/11/10/how-democratic-centralism-was-applied/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/11/10/how-democratic-centralism-was-applied/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:41:37 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6329 Part 2 of ‘Party Organization in Lenin’s Comintern’ See Part 1: Shaping a Policy By John Riddell: The Comintern’s 1921 organizational theses, discussed in Part 1 of this study, were next mentioned in a world congress by Lenin himself, in his address to the Fourth World Congress in 1922. At the end of what was […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/11/10/how-democratic-centralism-was-applied/feed/ 3 6329 Party Organization in Lenin’s Comintern https://johnriddell.com/2020/11/08/party-organization-in-lenins-comintern/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/11/08/party-organization-in-lenins-comintern/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2020 01:07:57 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6286 Part 1: Defining Democratic Centralism See also Part 2: Applying Democratic Centralism By John Riddell: Many socialist groups today seek to shape their organizational principles in the spirit of “democratic centralism” identified with V.I. Lenin. Yet as historian Lars Lih has demonstrated (“Fortunes of a Formula” and “Further Fortunes of a Formula”), Lenin himself used […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/11/08/party-organization-in-lenins-comintern/feed/ 5 6286 The Comintern’s Great Turn of 1920-21: Part 1 https://johnriddell.com/2020/09/08/great-turn/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/09/08/great-turn/#respond Tue, 08 Sep 2020 15:16:19 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=6022 From the Second World Congress to the March Action See also Part 2: The Third World Congress and Its Outcome Table of Contents Part 1: From Second World Congress to ‘March Action’ 1920: Year of Great Hopes Four Historic Conventions The German Party Turns Left The ‘March Action’ Part 2: The Third World Congress and […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/09/08/great-turn/feed/ 0 6022 The Comintern’s Great Turn of 1920-21: Part 2 https://johnriddell.com/2020/09/08/3wc-outcome/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/09/08/3wc-outcome/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2020 15:08:39 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=6042 The Third World Congress and Its Outcome See also Part 1: “From Second World Congress to March Action“ Table of Contents Part 1: From Second World Congress to ‘March Action’ 1920: Year of Great Hopes Four Historic Conventions The German Party Turns Left The ‘March Action’ Part 2: The Third World Congress and Its Outcome […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/09/08/3wc-outcome/feed/ 3 6042 ‘Holocaust to Resistance’ Tour Draws Wide Interest https://johnriddell.com/2020/03/23/holocaust-to-resistance-tour-draws-wide-interest/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/03/23/holocaust-to-resistance-tour-draws-wide-interest/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2020 15:42:40 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=5575 ‘Resistance to Hitler Has Lessons for Today’ By John Riddell: The dangers posed by the Covid-19 virus forced suspenion on March 19 of Suzanne Weiss’s tour introducing her memoir, Holocaust to Resistance: My Journey. But the tour’s results so far indicate encouraging interest in her story and its message of global solidarity. Suzanne’s seventeen meetings […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/03/23/holocaust-to-resistance-tour-draws-wide-interest/feed/ 1 5575 The Red Scare and the Death of Stalin (1950-56) https://johnriddell.com/2019/10/14/the-red-scare-and-the-death-of-stalin-1950-56/ https://johnriddell.com/2019/10/14/the-red-scare-and-the-death-of-stalin-1950-56/#comments Mon, 14 Oct 2019 18:14:04 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=5513 A brief excerpt from ‘Holocaust to Resistance’, by Suzanne Berliner Weiss Introduction by John Riddell: The experience of my partner Suzanne Weiss with the U.S. Communist Party in the early 1950s forms an interesting complement to my own account, in “My Search for Socialism,” of my experiences with the CP a couple of years later. […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2019/10/14/the-red-scare-and-the-death-of-stalin-1950-56/feed/ 1 5513 Suzanne Weiss memoir available October 1 https://johnriddell.com/2019/09/24/suzanne-weiss-memoir-available-october-1/ https://johnriddell.com/2019/09/24/suzanne-weiss-memoir-available-october-1/#comments Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:38:56 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=5497 ‘Holocaust to Resistance’ tells of solidarity ‘then and now’ By John Riddell: Long a familiar figure in Toronto left rallies and action coalitions, Suzanne Weiss has now published a life story arching from her first years in France occupied by Hitler’s troops to present-day tasks of liberation and eco-revolution. Suzanne’s publisher, Fernwood, has organized a […]

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