I was reading the annotated version of state and rev, and came across this snippet:
>"He (Stalin) carried out a counterrevolution that destroyed the last vestiges of workers’ power and replaced the revolutionary workers’ state that Lenin had outlined in State and Revolution with a state whose sole aim was to increase the exploitation of the Russian working class in order to compete militarily with Russia’s rivals in Western Europe, thereby re-imposing the logic of exploitation."
followed by
>"In order to accomplish this task, by the mid-1930s, Stalin had killed or exiled virtually every member of the 1917 Bolshevik leadership aside from Lenin, who only escaped this fate by suffering a debilitating stroke in 1922 and dying in January 1924."
(which, admitedly, is weird for me to see in a copy of state and revolution?)
(and also no sources of course)
However, this isn't the first time I've heard people specifically say that Stalin organized a "counter-revolution".
So I'm just curious, what is the basis/origin of this claim? Is it purely just a random trot talking point to somehow bridge the gap from Lenin's Revolution to "Stalin's Bureaucracy", or is there anything more to it?
Revolution and Counter-Revolution: China's Continuing Class Struggle Since Liberation is a collection of essays written by Pao-Yu Ching (and some co-authors) roughly between 1990-2010 and released by the Institute of Political Economy (Manila, Philippines) in 2012. Those familiar with Rethinking Socialism and From Victory to Defeat will be familiar with Ching's overarching arguments, but the essays contained in this book (which is available on Libgen in its entirety), treating several different topics as self-enclosed arguments, can provide more extensive treatment of them (including agriculture, technology, women).
The book has 13 chapters, but I pulled four parts from the book to share here as immediate reading with my reasoning as follows.
In the introduction, Ching gives an overview of her own background and intellectual journey, which is an interesting enough read on its own (some similarities can be drawn to Li Minqi's self-study of Marx and Mao in eventual rejection of bourgeois economics as well). I chose this to share because I enjoyed reading about her story. There is a further reason: there is a tendency of some disgruntled liberal crowds to attack characters in place of critiquing rooted politics, thereby gaining the ability to handwave away their writing. This comes from a place of ignorance, whereby the reader themselves gets to fill in the gap of their own worldview of why the authors are "being antagonistic" ("Sakai is a fed" etc). Learning about the writer and actually considering them as historical actors who have undergone political journeys does not render their strawmanning by liberals impossible but it does make it more difficult. This also isn't the final step but it is of the utmost importance to first see others as thinking and feeling human beings who are rooted in a very real history, engaged in a critique not of a "country" but of a historical economic process, before purporting to measure their work and practice.
Worker-Peasant Alliance as a Rural Development Strategy for China (with Deng-yuan Hsu)
This essay was originally published in Monthly Review in March 1991. It examines, to an extent, Maoist China's rural development strategy and touches on the class struggle that occurred. Common themes that are
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I come across this song on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqqhsbF2vWY
No one has created an English subtitle srt file for it so I decided it take it up on myself to do it.
I just want to make sure the translation is good. I am also curious about if the song is pro-russian or pro-tsar.
EDIT: New subtitle
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