Myth, Manifesto, Meltdown: Communist Strategy, 1848-1991
He illuminates the central role of internal strategy conflicts in fractionating the Communist world, and the direct linkage between the failure of Communist world strategy and the system's collapse. This is a major synthesis that will be of interest to scholars and researchers of international Communism and security issues as well as lay readers. |
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Inhalt
Khrushchevs Grand Strategy | 127 |
The Return to Rigidity | 139 |
Military Strategy 19641989 | 157 |
Ideological Political and Economic Decline | 171 |
The Meltdown of the Myth | 185 |
Epilogue | 207 |
Notes | 211 |
Selected Bibliography | 233 |
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Seite 7 - The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
Seite 26 - Democracy is a state recognizing the subordination of the minority to the majority, ie, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
Seite 27 - ... in the force of habit, in the strength of small production. For, unfortunately, small production is still very, very widespread in the world, and small production engenders capitalism and the bourgeoisie continuously, daily, hourly, spontaneously, and on a mass scale.
Seite 40 - If war is waged by the exploiting class with the object of strengthening its class rule, such a war is a criminal war, and "defencism" in such a war is a base betrayal of socialism. If war is waged by the proletariat after it has conquered the bourgeoisie in its own country, and is waged with the object of strengthening and extending socialism, such a war is legitimate and "holy.
Seite 40 - The character of the war (whether reactionary or revolutionary) is not determined by who the aggressor was, or whose territory the "enemy" has occupied; it is determined by the class that is waging the war, and the politics of which this war is a continuation. If...
Seite 41 - We are living not merely in a state, but in a system of states, and the existence of the Soviet Republic side by side with imperialist states for a long time is unthinkable. One or the other must triumph in the end. And before that end supervenes, a series of frightful collisions between the Soviet Republic and the bourgeois states will be inevitable.
Seite 40 - We are not pacifists. We are opposed to imperialist wars for the division of spoils among the capitalists, but we have always declared it to be absurd for the revolutionary proletariat to renounce revolutionary wars that may prove necessary in the interests of socialism.™...
Seite 75 - Chinese have enumerated a list of what are termed the "permanently operating factors" which, it is said, "determine the course and outcome of war." These factors are: the stability of the rear; the morale of the army; the quantity and quality of divisions; the armament of the army; and the organizing ability of the command personnel.
Seite 32 - Soviets and strive to adapt them to the pre-capitalist conditions, but the Communist International should advance the proposition, with the appropriate theoretical grounding, that with the aid of the proletariat of the advanced countries, backward countries can go over to the Soviet system and, through certain stages of development, to communism, without having to pass through the capitalist stage.
Seite 40 - In the third place, socialism victorious in one country does not exclude forthwith all wars in general. On the contrary, it presupposes them. The development of capitalism proceeds highly unevenly in various countries. This cannot be otherwise under the conditions of commodity production. From this follows the unavoidable conclusion: Socialism cannot win simultaneously in all countries. It will win initially in one or several countries...
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Myth, Manifesto, Meltdown: Communist Strategy, 1848-1991 Papers in Art History from the |
| Autor/in | Edward M. Collins |
| Ausgabe | illustriert |
| Verlag | Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0275959384, 9780275959388 |
| Länge | 244 Seiten |
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