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Critical remarks to the idea of “democratic centrism”

After the victory of the October Revolution, revolutionary socialist parties and groups all over the world tried to follow in their organisation structure the so called "Leninist party model". The author of the discussion paper argues that this special Leninist party model never existed – the Bolshevik Party followed especially organisation standards of western social democratic parties. What subsequent revolutionary movements regarded as the ideal model was in fact the simplified version of the Bolshevik Party's structure, which developed after the party had taken the power and which was infected with bureaucratic distortions. Insisting on this wrong organisational model has greatly contributed to the defeat of revolutionary socialism in the 20th Century.


The politics of assumption, the assumption of politics

In his Capital, Marx throughout maintained the simplifying theoretical precondition that the value of labour is fixed and constant. However by this he mostly closed out discussing problems concerning class struggle and the organisational level of the working class from the analysis of capitalism in Capital. The connection, that increasing productivity results in proportionally higher profit only if the working class remains disorganised or its segmentation increases, receives little attention. Nevertheless, the capital immanently and necessarily aims not only increasing productivity but also deepening divisions among workers.


Lenin and the “organisation question” – historical reconstruction

The author continues his work on the legacy of Lenin on the so called organisation question. The study reconstructs Lenin's views on the party in the early days – showing it by historical sources. Revolutionary party can be established only in revolutionary times. Due to lack of revolutionary working class movement an emigrant syndrome had developed. The debate between Lenin and Bogdanov (1907-1912) after the failed revolution is exiting, because actual theoretical and methodological conclusions can be based on it. Lenin represented the Marxist approach to politics in a given historical situation against Bogdanov, Mensheviks and the so called leftist Bolsheviks.


World Revolution. A return to the strategy of global revolution also integrating 20th century’s experience

The author discusses possibilities for a second wave of the world revolution. The first was the attempt of the Bolsheviks, which failed by the Stalinist turn. Today "the only perspective for a global revolution is establishing revolutionary powder-kegs in the »Third World«, which would create horizontal ties among each other – ignoring fundamental imperialist cultural institutions and narratives of the »First World« – leading to subsequent armed struggle and organisation of uprisings, establishing of »liberated zones« and seizing of power in specific countries."