Finland Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/history/finland/ MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY Thu, 22 Jul 2021 01:53:47 +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 Finland Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/history/finland/ 32 32 22825446 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 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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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2017/07/13/assessing-revolutionary-social-democracy-a-response-to-duncan-hart/feed/ 1 4231 Lessons from Finland: Reply to Eric Blanc https://johnriddell.com/2017/07/11/lessons-from-finland-reply-to-eric-blanc/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/07/11/lessons-from-finland-reply-to-eric-blanc/#respond Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:04:30 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=4195 By Duncan Hart. Eric Blanc’s article “Lessons from Finland’s 1917 revolution” raised a series of political arguments that would be extremely damaging for the Left today to adopt from the Finnish experience – primarily that the revolution vindicated the political strategy of Kautskian Social Democracy. Unfortunately Jacobin, which first published Blanc’s article, declined to publish my […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2017/07/11/lessons-from-finland-reply-to-eric-blanc/feed/ 0 4195 Lessons from Finland’s 1917 revolution https://johnriddell.com/2017/06/11/lessons-from-finlands-1917-revolution/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/06/11/lessons-from-finlands-1917-revolution/#respond Sun, 11 Jun 2017 20:42:32 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=3871 See also translations into French, Portuguese, and Spanish. By Eric Blanc. The forgotten Finnish Revolution has perhaps more lessons for us today than events in 1917 Russia. In the past century, histories of the 1917 revolution have usually focused on Petrograd and Russian socialists. But the Russian empire was predominantly made up of non-Russians — […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2017/06/11/lessons-from-finlands-1917-revolution/feed/ 0 3871 The roots of 1917: Kautsky, the state, and revolution in Imperial Russia https://johnriddell.com/2016/10/13/the-roots-of-1917-kautsky-the-state-and-revolution-in-imperial-russia/ https://johnriddell.com/2016/10/13/the-roots-of-1917-kautsky-the-state-and-revolution-in-imperial-russia/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:42:24 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=2944 By Eric Blanc. Abstract: This article reexamines the perspectives on the state and revolution advocated by the early Karl Kautsky and revolutionary social democrats across the Tsarist Empire. Contrary to a common misconception, these “orthodox” Marxists rejected the possibility of a peaceful and gradualist utilization of the capitalist state for socialist transformation. I show that […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2016/10/13/the-roots-of-1917-kautsky-the-state-and-revolution-in-imperial-russia/feed/ 8 2944 Anti-Imperial Marxism: Borderland Socialists and the Evolution of Bolshevism on National Liberation https://johnriddell.com/2016/04/06/anti-imperial-marxism-borderland-socialists-and-the-evolution-of-bolshevism-on-national-liberation/ https://johnriddell.com/2016/04/06/anti-imperial-marxism-borderland-socialists-and-the-evolution-of-bolshevism-on-national-liberation/#respond Wed, 06 Apr 2016 18:34:18 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=2521 By Eric Blanc. First published in International Socialist Review, #100, Spring 2016. Reprinted with permission. Copyright © 2016 Eric Blanc. Introduction: Given the importance Marxists place on the fight against racial and national oppression, it is surprising that relatively little attention has been paid to the socialists of imperial Russia’s borderlands. Most of the inhabitants […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2016/04/06/anti-imperial-marxism-borderland-socialists-and-the-evolution-of-bolshevism-on-national-liberation/feed/ 0 2521 Finland 1906: The revolutionary roots of women’s suffrage — an International Women’s Day tribute https://johnriddell.com/2015/03/04/finland-1906-the-revolutionary-roots-of-womens-suffrage-an-international-womens-day-tribute/ https://johnriddell.com/2015/03/04/finland-1906-the-revolutionary-roots-of-womens-suffrage-an-international-womens-day-tribute/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2015 21:36:54 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=2194 Spanish translation available in ‘Sin Permiso‘ By Eric Blanc. In 1906, Finland became the world’s first nation to grant full female suffrage.[1] This watershed achievement for women was won by Finnish socialists during the revolutionary upheaval that swept the Czarist empire to which Finland belonged. Yet this important history has been overlooked by both academics […]

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