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The people have been deceived and diverted from their vital interests by means of spectacular and meaningless duels between the two bourgeois parties.

*Top secret*\

Herman Gorters rarely read, short response to lenins “‘left-wing’ communism, an infantile disorder”

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A principal insuficiência de todo o materialismo até aos nossos dias — o de Feuerbach incluído — é que as coisas [der Gegenstand], a realidade, o mundo sensível são tomados apenas sobre a forma do objecto [des Objekts] ou da contemplação [Anschauung]; mas não como atividade sensível humana, práxis, não subjectivamente. Por isso aconteceu que o lado activo foi desenvolvido, em oposição ao materialismo, pelo idealismo — mas apenas abstractamente, pois que o idealismo naturalmente não conhece a actividade sensível, real, como tal. Feuerbach quer objectos [Objekte] sensíveis realmente distintos dos objectos do pensamento; mas não toma a própria actividade humana como atividade objectiva [gegenständliche Tätigkeit]. Ele considera, por isso, na Essência do Cristianismo, apenas a atitude teórica como a genuinamente humana, ao passo que a práxis é tomada e fixada apenas na sua forma de manifestação sórdida e judaica. Não compreende, por isso, o significado da actividade “revolucionária”, de crítica prática.

Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled. The progress which the proletarian party will make by operating independently in this way is infinitely more important than the disadvantages resulting from the presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body. If the forces of democracy take decisive, terroristic action against the reaction from the very beginning, the reactionary influence in the election will already have been destroyed.

The essence is this: what system of administration in a workers’ republic during the period of creation of the economic basis for Communism secures more freedom for the class creative powers? Is it a bureaucratic state system or a system of wide practical self-activity of the working masses? The question relates to the system of administration and the controversy arises between two diametrically opposed principles: bureaucracy or self-activity. And yet they try to squeeze it into the scope of the problem that concerns itself only with methods of animating the Soviet institutions.

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, as it is known in China and by Maoists worldwide, was initiated by Mao as a way of both empowering the Chinese working class and a way to rebuild his support base to combat factions within the CPC he did not like.

“reformism, even when quite sincere, in practice becomes a weapon by means of which the bourgeoisie corrupt and weaken the workers. The experience of all countries shows that the workers who put their trust in the reformists are always fooled.

" But we are concerned here with much more than simple intellectual influences. The concept of alienation belongs to a vast and complex problematics, with a long history of its own. Preoccupations with this problematics – in forms ranging from the Bible to literary works as well as treatises on Law, Economy and Philosophy – reflect objective trends of European development, from slavery to the age of transition from capitalism to socialism. Intellectual influences, revealing important continuities across the transformations of social structures, acquire their real significance only if they are considered in this objective framework of development. If so assessed, their importance – far from being exhausted in mere historical curiosity – cannot be stressed enough: precisely because they indicate the deep-rootedness of certain problematics as well as the relative autonomy of the forms of thought in which they are reflected.”

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