New Items on the Marxists Internet Archive(through Oct 14)

[David Walters <dwalters@xxxxxxx>]

MIA Newsletter 10/07/02 -- 10/14/02

1. Additions to the Marxist Writers Archives -- Marx and Engels
(Jenny Marx), V.I. Lenin, Victor Serge, Tony Cliff, Duncan Hallas

2. Additions to German Language Archives: -- Karl Korsch, Tony Cliff,
Duncan Hallas

3. Additions to Subject Archives -- Encyclopedia of Trotskyism
On-Line

4. Additions to the Reference Archives -- Anna Louise Strong

5. Weekly picks: Do You Believe in Patriotism?, Elizabeth Gurley
Flynn, 1916; To the Indian Revolutionary Association, V. I. Lenin,
1920

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* Added to the Jenny Marx Correspondence:

13 letters from the period 1860-64, including interesting
observations on Marx's work on Herr Vogt and Capitaland a very long
letter to Louise Weydemeyer summing up what has been going on with
the Marx family for the past few years.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/letters/jenny/index.htm [Thanks
to Andy Blunden]

* The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has made progress in the last
month. In addition to cleaning up bad links and anchors, we've
completed all of Volume 23, from August 1916 - March 1917, covering
all of Lenin's writings leading up to and including the February 1917
Revolution.

Additionally we have started work on Volume 31, the Spring and Summer
of 1920, during the darkest period Civil War. From this volume we've
added the first set of documents and reformatted some of the ones
from this volume that were transcribed previously, such as Left-Wing
Communism, An Infantile Disorder, Lenin's defense of the tactic of
the United Front and against it's ultra-left opponents:

Speech Delivered at an All-Russia Congress of Glass and Porcelain
Workers, April 29, 1920 From The First Subbotnik On The Moscow-Kazan
Railway To The All-Russia May Day Subbotnik Speech at a Meeting
Dedicated To the Laying of the Foundation Stone of a Monument to
Liberated Labour, May 1, 1920 Speech To Men Of The Red Army Leaving
For The Polish Front, May 5, 1920 Speech Delivered at a Joint Session
of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, The Moscow Soviet of
Workers', Peasants' and Red Army Deputies, Trade Unions, And Factory
Committees, May 5, 1920 Telegram To The Soviet Socialist Government
Of Azerbaijan Speech at Conference of Workers and Red Army Men In
Rogozhsko-Simonovsky District Of Moscow, May 13, 1920 To the Indian
Revolutionary Association
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/cw/volume31.htm [Thanks
to Robert Cymbala and David Walters]


*  The V. I. Lenin Internet Archive has added another set of
documents from Volume 31:

To the Indian Revolutionary Association Letter to the British Workers
Preliminary Draft Theses on National and Colonial Questions for the
Second Congress of the Communist International Preliminary Draft
Theses On The Agrarian Question For The Second Congress Of The
Communist International KOMMUNISMUS Journal of the Communist
International Speech at Second All-Russia Conference of Organisers
Responsible for Rural Work, June 12, 1920 Telephone Message to
All-Russia Food Conference Aid for the Wounded of the Red Army!
Theses on Fundamental Tasks of The Second Congress Of The Communist
International
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/cw/volume31.htm [Thanks
to Robert Cymbala and David Walters]

* Added to the Victor Serge Internet Archive:

Portraying the men and events of our times (1937) Obituary: Leon
Sedov(1938) In a time of duplicity (1945) Recollections of Maxim
Gorki(1945) http://www.marxists.org/archive/serge/index.htm [Thanks
to Roland Ferguson & Einde O'Callaghan]


* Added to the new Duncan Hallas Internet Archive:

Western capitalism: the latest phase (1970), Gramsci (1971) &
Socialist economics (1972)
http://www.marxists.org/archive/hallas/index.htm [Thanks to Einde
O'Callaghan]

* Added to the new Tony Cliff Internet Archive:

Belgium: strike to revolution? (1961) Earthquake in the East (1989)
http://www.marxists.org/archive/cliff/index.htm [Thanks to Einde
O'Callaghan]

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* Added to the German-language Archiv August Thalheimer:

Um was gehtes?: Zur Krise in der KPD (1929) (What is it about? On the
crisis inthe KPD) http://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/index.htm
[Thanks to Einde O'Callaghan]

* Added to the German-language Archiv Karl Korsch:

Zehn Jahre Klassenkämpfe in Sowjetrußland (1927) (Ten years of class
struggles in Soviet Russia) Staat und Konterrevolution (1939) (State
and counter-revolution)
http://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/korsch/index.htm [Thanks to
Einde O'Callaghan]

* Added to the German-language Archiv Tony Cliff:

Vor allem war er ein Revolutionär (1970) (Above all he was a
revolutionary) Das revolutionäre Erbe Trotzkis (1990) (Trotsky's
revolutionary heritage) Warum air dine revolutionäre Pare brauchen
(1997) (Why we need a revolutionary party) Die Juden, Israel und der
Holocaust (1998) (The Jews Israel & the Holocaust)
http://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/cliff/index.htm [Thanks to
Linksruck & Sozialismus von unten]

7 October, 2002:Added to the new German-language Archiv Duncan
Hallas:

Kritikdes orthodoxen Trotzkismus (1969) (Critique of orthodox
Trotskyism) Trotzki: einepolitische Kurzbiographie (1970) (Trotsky: a
short politicalbiography) Gegen denStrom (1972) (Against the stream)
DerNiedergang der Vierten Internationale (1973 (Decline of teh
FourthInternational) Trotzkismus neubewertet (1977) (Trotskyism
re-evaluated) Was meinenwir mit Sektierertum? (1985) (What do we mean
by sectarianism?) Die RoteFlut ? Die Komintern) (1985) (The red tide
? TheComintern)
http://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/hallas/index.htm [Thanks to
REDS ? DieRoten, Sozialismus vonunten, Linksruck und
InternationaleSozialisten]

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* The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line has completed work on George
Jan Lerki's famous 1964 book The Origins of Trotskyism in Ceylon (Sri
Lanka). This was one of the first academic works on one of the few
mass Trotskyist movements anywhere in the world. We have added the
table of contents/preface and the first two chapters.
http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/srilanka/contents.htm
[Thanks to David Walters and The Hoover Institution for War,
Revolution and Peace who granted us permission to place this book on
the ETOL]

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* We have added a reference archive for the works of activist
journalist, Anna Louise Strong (1885-1970). Texts archived include
selections from her work as a labor activist in Seattle, as well as
her experiences living in Soviet Russia and finally China:

No One Knows Where, 1919 Children of Revolution, (Story of the John
Reed Children's Colony on the Volga), 1925 Letters From China, 1963
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/strong-anna-louise/index.
htm [Thanks to Sally Ryan]

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Do You Believe in Patriotism? Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 1916

Do you believe in patriotism? What an odd question to ask
revolutionists! Might it not be better put, "American Socialists,
have you the courage of your principles? Shall it be 'America First'
or 'Workers of the World, Unite!'"

Count me for Labor First. This country is not "our" country. Then why
should the toilers love it or fight for it? Why sanction the title
deeds of our masters in the blood of our fellow-slaves? Let those who
own the country, who are howling for and profiting by preparedness,
fight to defend their property.

I despise the rule of Rockefeller and Morgan as much as that of King
or Kaiser, and am as outraged by Ludlow and Calumet as by Belgium.
Joe Hill was as cruelly martyred as Edith Cavell, and I cannot work
myself into a frenzy of patriotism wherever a contraband ship is sunk
and we lose a few prominent citizens.

I save my concern for Quinlan, Lawson, Ford and Suhr, and the
innumerable victims of the class war.

The majority of our workers are foreigners, one or two generations
removed, and with their European home-ties and American environment,
internationalism becomes the logical patriotism of a heterogeneous
population.

America--not as a melting-pot, that produces a jingoistic, mercenary,
one-mold type, but as a giant loom weaving into a mighty whole the
sons, the poetry, the traditions, and the customs of all races, until
a beautiful human fabric, with each thread intact, comes forth--would
stretch forth a myriad hands of brotherhood to the four quarters of
the globe.

The train on which I write rushes by factories where murder
instruments are made for gold. I would be ashamed to be patriotic of
such a country. In the black smoke belched from their chimneys, I see
the ghostly faces of dead workers--our poor, deluded slain brothers.
I re-affirm my faith, "It is better to be a traitor to your country
than a traitor to your class!"

http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/flynn/1916/patriotism.
htm



To the Indian Revolutionary Association V.I. Lenin, 1920

I am glad to hear that the principles of self-determination and the
liberation of oppressed nations from exploitation by foreign and
native capitalists, proclaimed by the Workers' and Peasants'
Republic, have met with such a ready response among progressive
Indians, who are waging a heroic fight for freedom. The working
masses of Russia are following with unflagging attention the
awakening of the Indian workers and peasants. The organisation and
discipline of the working people and their perseverance and
solidarity with the working people of the world are an earnest of
ultimate success. We welcome the close alliance of Moslem and
non-Moslem elements. We sincerely want to see this alliance extended
to all the toilers of the East. Only when the Indian, Chinese,
Korean, Japanese, Persian, and Turkish workers and peasants join
hands and march together in the common cause of liberation?only then
will decisive victory over the exploiters be ensured. Long live a
free Asia!

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/may/13b.htm





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