Revolutionary defeatism

Revolutionary defeatism ... Revolutionary defeatism is a concept made most prominent by Vladimir Lenin in World War I. It is based on the Marxist idea of class ...

Lenin: The Defeat of One's Own Government in the Imperialist War

A revolution in wartime means civil war; the conversion of a war between governments into a civil war is, on the one hand, facilitated by military reverses (" ...

Joubert: Revolutionary Defeatism - Marxists Internet Archive

This 'turn' in the Communist International in the 1930s meant that 'revolutionary defeatism' became a formula for debate among the opponents of war and of ...

Is Lenin's Revolutionary Defeatism Applicable in Palestine? - Reddit

Is Revolutionary Defeatism applicable for defeating the bourgeois forces in Palestine? I've heard a lot lately that celebrating the deaths of Israeli soldiers ...

Defeatism - Wikipedia

Defeatism is the acceptance of defeat without struggle, often with negative connotations. It can be linked to pessimism in psychology, and may sometimes be ...

Revolutionary Defeatism in World War II - World Socialist Web Site

The trial began on October 27, 1941 and ended nearly six weeks later, on December 8, 1941, one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the day Roosevelt ...

Revolutionary defeatism, yesterday and today - Tempest Collective

This further demonstrates that Lenin was primarily using the revolutionary defeatism slogan in relation to tsarism and the idea that a defeat of ...

Lenin and the myth of revolutionary defeatism by Hal Draper

Lenin's course in 1917 proved that defeatism was and is not any necessary element in a consistent revolutionary anti-war position.

From: A reply to the RSL, Chauvinism and Revolutionary Defeatism

A reply of the leadership of the Workers' International League during the war to the sectarian position of the then RSL that refused to apply Trotsky's ...

The Practical Policy of Revolutionary Defeatism - Cosmonaut

Matthew Strupp lays out the politics of revolutionary defeatism in contrast to the approaches of third-campism and third-worldism.

Lenin and the Myth of Revolutionary Defeatism, by Hal - jstor

lutionary defeatism (right or wrong. Viewed in the context of Lenin's th tion of the revolutionary vanguard revolutionary defeatism is not at all o bourgeois ...

revolutionary defeatism - Libcom.org

Historically, this position is called revolutionary defeatism because it openly proclaims that the proletariat must struggle against the enemy which is in its " ...

War and Revolution: Lenin and the Myth of Revolutionary Defeatism

Humanities Press International, 1996. Soft cover. Very good / No jacket. Item #1128911 ISBN: 9780391040021 Very light, occasional pencil marks in margins, ...

War and Revolution: Lenin and the Myth of Revolutionary Defeatism

A great debate took place following the collapse of the socialist movement in the crisis of 1914. "Revolutionary defeatism" was the phrase used to define ...

Revolutionary Defeatism Today - Devrim Valerian - Libcom.org

Opposed to the rabid pro-war jingoism of most “socialist” parties, the revolutionaries argued that workers should oppose the war, and rather ...

Revolutionary Defeatism: International and Historical Aspects | 31 | W

As a political slogan in the First World War, revolutionary defeatism was strictly limited in time and space. It was a purely Russian phenomenon, ...

Hal Draper - The Myth of Lenin's 'Revolutionary Defeatism'

Although defeat is the lesser evil, it would, we have seen, bring enough calamities. What does the working class need, what result would be of advantage to it?

War and Revolution - Lenin and the Myth of Revolutionary Defeatism

War and Revolution - Lenin and the Myth of Revolutionary Defeatism. New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. c.1996.

Revolutionary Defeatism - Socialist Voice

The plan is to embroil Ireland in the wider western imperialist project, to take part in an attempt to reassert hegemony over the rest.

Revolutionary defeatism - Socialist Worker

Revolutionary defeatism ... As the First World War broke out Lenin called for socialists to oppose their own governments. How his analysis of the ...