Re: [AUT] Party building in the 19th Century

[Sebastian Budgen <sebastian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One  study you may be interested in reading is Lar T. Lih's 'Lenin Rediscovered', due to come out in the Historical Materialism book series with Brill Academic Press after the summer. It consists of a completely new translation of What Is to Be Done? from the Russian and a nine-chapter commentary which re-places the text in its historical, political and polemical context (including the 1903 debates, the contemporaneous texts by Trotsky, Luxemburg, Akselrod, Martynov, Martov, Plekhanov etc.). It is a study which will transform the way most people see this text.

On Jun 7, 2005, at 3:05 PM, Ois . wrote:

> <x-tad-smaller>Taking a break from post-modernism...</x-tad-smaller>
> <x-tad-smaller>Some very good Irish Marxist activists are trying to set up a new party. I'm thinking of writing up an article critiquing party building but to do so I want to fully understand how the party ideal developed. To this aim I'm re-reading stuff around the RSDLP's 1903 congress and stuff around the Bernstein - Reform vs. Revolution debates.</x-tad-smaller>
> <x-tad-smaller> However I don't think that's enough. I need to know a bit about the emergence and growth of the German SPD in up to 1900. Unfortunately I know very little about the growth of the SPD. I was wondering could someone recommend a book or a pamphlet or an essay or an article that examines and explains the growth of the SPD. I'm most interested in how it grew and was organised under the Anti-Socialist Laws. And the shorter the text the better.</x-tad-smaller>
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