POL 1010

TUTORIAL 6

POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES II

THE IDEAS UNDERPINNING COMMUNIST SYSTEMS

 LECTURE

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

  1. DID MARX EVER TELL US WHAT COMMUNISM WOULD BE LIKE?
  2. WAS LENIN AN APOSTLE OF ANTI-IMPERIALISM

    3. RATHER THAN ANTI-CAPITALISM?

  3. WAS STALIN REALLY NECESSARY? READ THE NOVE ARTICLE AND CRITICALLY APPRAISE IT IN THE LIGHT OF INFORMATION THAT HAS BECOME AVAILABLE SINCE THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION AND IT EAST EUROPEAN SATTELITES
  4. MAO, TITO, CASTRO, HO CHI MINH. GUERILLAS WHO HAD TO OBTAIN POPULAR SUPPORT. WAS THAT WHY THEIR SYSTEMS HAVE SURVIVED WHERE LENIN AND STALIN'S HAVE FAILED?

 

READINGS

NOVE A. WAS STALIN REALLY NECESSARY?

 

 

WEB MATERIALS

THE DEPARTMENT HOSTS A MIRROR SITE FOR THE MARX-ENGELS INTERNET ARCHIVE AT http://www.ex.ac.uk/Projects/meia THIS HAS BEEN SUPERCEDED BY http://www.marxists.org WHICH IS BASED IN THE US AND MAY BE SLOW TO LOAD. THE SITE INCLUDES A GLOSSARY OF PEOPLE, EVENTS AND MARXIST TERMS AT: http://www.marxists.org/glossary/index.htm

THERE IS A NEW MIRROR SITE AT http://www.marxists.org.uk

LOOK AT THE SECTION FOR STUDENTS. IT JUST MIGHT HELP YOU ANSWER SOME OF THE ABOVE QUESTIONS: http://www.marxists.org/subject/students/index.htm

MOST ARTICLES BY MARX AND OTHER MARXISTS CAN BE ACCESSED AND DOWNLOADED AT THESE SITES. THE FOLLOWING WORKS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE LIBRARY IN THE CONVENTIONAL PRINTED FORMAT.

WORTH READING TO START WITH:

MARX K AND ENGELS F THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

http://www.ex.ac.uk/Projects/meia/Archive/1848-CM

LENIN V I WHAT IS TO BE DONE? http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/what-itd/index.htm

LENIN V I IMPERIALISM HIGHEST STAGE OF CAPITALISM

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/index.htm

STALIN J V FOUNDATIONS OF LENINISM

http://gate.cruzio.com/~marx2mao/Stalin/FL24.html

MAO ZEDONG WHY IS IT THAT RED POLITICAL POWER CAN EXIST IN CHINA?

http://www.ex.ac.uk/Projects/meia/Mao/281003.htm

MAO ZEDONG PROBLEMS OF STRATEGY IN CHINA'S REVOLUTIONARY WAR

http://www.ex.ac.uk/Projects/meia/Mao/3612a.htm

ARTICLE ON HO CHI MINH

http://acjournal.org/holdings/vol3/Iss3/spec1/decaro.html

 

HO CHI MINH'S TIME MAGAZINE ENTRY AS ONE OF THE 100 LEADERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY

http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/hochiminh.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

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