Bolshevism and its Critique

Philip Corrigan, Harvie Ramsay and Derek Sayer

Chapter 2 in Socialist Construction and Marxist Theory, 1978, pp 24-52 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In 1936 J. Sen wrote to Andre Gide suggesting that ‘the time is opportune for criticism to be directed against the USSR’. Amongst his reasons was one we share: A communist cannot refuse to examine realities, for that would be the negation of Marxism. Communists … have not the right, on the pretext of not discouraging the proletariat, to conceal from it the errors of a revolutionary experiment. On the contrary, their duty, their task is to examine the path followed by the Russian Revolution … (cit. Gide, 1937: 141–2)

Keywords: Productive Force; Socialist Construction; Historical Experience; Capitalist Production; Class Struggle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1978
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03131-3_2

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