Lars T. Lih Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/authors/lars-t-lih/ MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY Tue, 06 Aug 2019 20:15:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.15 https://i0.wp.com/johnriddell.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-John-Riddell-Icon-Final-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Lars T. Lih Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/authors/lars-t-lih/ 32 32 22825446 Lenin’s Verdict on Kautsky in State and Revolution https://johnriddell.com/2019/08/05/lenins-verdict-on-kautsky-in-state-and-revolution/ https://johnriddell.com/2019/08/05/lenins-verdict-on-kautsky-in-state-and-revolution/#comments Tue, 06 Aug 2019 01:03:28 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=5445 It’s Time for a Closer Look By Lars T. Lih, Summer 2019: After 1914, Lenin and Karl Kautsky became bitter political enemies. No person was denounced by Lenin with so much obsessive fervor as was Kautsky—a reflection of the central role Kautsky had formerly played in the outlook of the Russian Bolsheviks. Nevertheless, despite his […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2019/08/05/lenins-verdict-on-kautsky-in-state-and-revolution/feed/ 11 5445 Lenin-Kautsky Post-1914 Database https://johnriddell.com/2019/08/05/lenin-kautsky-post-1914-database/ https://johnriddell.com/2019/08/05/lenin-kautsky-post-1914-database/#respond Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:56:33 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=5457 What follows is the first online publication of a research tool created by Lars Lih in February 2008 and updated February 2011. — JR By Lars T. Lih: The Kautsky-as-Marxist database is a collection that I have compiled of all comments by Lenin in his final decade, 1914-1924, that bear on the issue on his attitude […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2019/08/05/lenin-kautsky-post-1914-database/feed/ 0 5457 Karl Kautsky as Architect of the October Revolution: Part 2 https://johnriddell.com/2019/07/05/karl-kautsky-as-architect-of-the-october-revolution-part-2/ https://johnriddell.com/2019/07/05/karl-kautsky-as-architect-of-the-october-revolution-part-2/#comments Fri, 05 Jul 2019 13:37:23 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=5415 1917: The Bolsheviks Apply Kautsky’s Tactics Lenin remained true to the tactical ideas of Karl Kautsky after the latter had abandoned them. By Lars T. Lih As we have seen, the Bolsheviks came into 1917 with two pieces of Kautsky advice firmly under their belts: enlist the peasantry as a revolutionary ally, and do not […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2019/07/05/karl-kautsky-as-architect-of-the-october-revolution-part-2/feed/ 1 5415 Karl Kautsky as Architect of the October Revolution: Part 1 https://johnriddell.com/2019/07/04/karl-kautsky-as-architect-of-the-october-revolution-part-1/ https://johnriddell.com/2019/07/04/karl-kautsky-as-architect-of-the-october-revolution-part-1/#comments Thu, 04 Jul 2019 15:03:23 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=5410 Before the War: The Bolsheviks Applaud Kautsky’s Tactics Lenin remained true to the tactical ideas of Karl Kautsky after the latter had abandoned them. By Lars T. Lih In recent months, Jacobin has seen an exchange of views on the theme of Kautsky vs Lenin. Many good points were made, but on the subject of […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2019/07/04/karl-kautsky-as-architect-of-the-october-revolution-part-1/feed/ 4 5410 ‘We demand the publication of the secret treaties’: Biography of a sister slogan https://johnriddell.com/2018/04/02/we-demand-the-publication-of-the-secret-treaties-biography-of-a-sister-slogan/ https://johnriddell.com/2018/04/02/we-demand-the-publication-of-the-secret-treaties-biography-of-a-sister-slogan/#respond Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:52:30 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=5028 Seventh and concluding part of Lars Lih’s series, ‘All Power to the Soviets!’ See also appendix: “March 1917 Editorials on the War by Kamenev and Stalin.” For links to previous parts of the series, see bottom of this post. See also “Index to the 1917 debate.” By Lars T. Lih: On March 4, 1917 (using the […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2018/04/02/we-demand-the-publication-of-the-secret-treaties-biography-of-a-sister-slogan/feed/ 0 5028 The Character of the Russian Revolution: Trotsky 1917 vs. Trotsky 1924 https://johnriddell.com/2017/10/25/the-character-of-the-russian-revolution-trotsky-1917-vs-trotsky-1924/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/10/25/the-character-of-the-russian-revolution-trotsky-1917-vs-trotsky-1924/#comments Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:36:58 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=4745 Part 6 of the series, ‘All Power to the Soviets!’ See also appendix: “The Character of the Russian Revolution,” by Leon Trotsky (1917). For links to previous parts of the series, see bottom of this post. See also “Index to the 1917 debate.” By Lars T. Lih, October 2017: In April 1917, Georgii Plekhanov—an elder […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2017/10/25/the-character-of-the-russian-revolution-trotsky-1917-vs-trotsky-1924/feed/ 3 4745 Trotsky (1917): The Character of the Russian Revolution https://johnriddell.com/2017/10/25/trotsky-1917-the-character-of-the-russian-revolution/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/10/25/trotsky-1917-the-character-of-the-russian-revolution/#respond Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:34:34 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=4742 The following text by Lev Trotsky appears as an appendix to “The Character of the Russian Revolution: Trotsky 1917 vs. Trotsky 1924,” Part 6 of Lars Lih’s series, “All Power to the Soviets!” It was first published in August 1917 as Part 5 of Trotsky’s pamphlet, “What Next.” The liberal and SR-Menshevik politicians and scribes […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2017/10/25/trotsky-1917-the-character-of-the-russian-revolution/feed/ 0 4742 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 ‘A basic question’: Lenin glosses the April Theses https://johnriddell.com/2017/08/15/a-basic-question-lenin-glosses-the-april-theses/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/08/15/a-basic-question-lenin-glosses-the-april-theses/#respond Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:11:33 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=4460 Part 5 of the series ‘All Power to the Soviets!’ See also appendix: “Lenin refutes a misreading of the April Theses.” For links to previous parts of the series, see bottom of this post. By Lars T. Lih: In April 1917, Lenin was churning out articles for Pravda at an alarming rate. One such article […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2017/08/15/a-basic-question-lenin-glosses-the-april-theses/feed/ 0 4460 Thirteen to two: Petrograd Bolsheviks debate the April Theses https://johnriddell.com/2017/07/20/thirteen-to-two-petrograd-bolsheviks-debate-the-april-theses/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/07/20/thirteen-to-two-petrograd-bolsheviks-debate-the-april-theses/#respond Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:35:13 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=4303 Part 4 of Lars T. Lih’s series ‘All Power to the Soviets’ See also appendix: ‘April Theses: Bolsheviks set the record straight’. For previous posts in the series, see bottom of this post. Everywhere and always, every day, we have to show the masses that until the vlast has been transferred into the hands of […]

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