Communist Voice Organization
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The Communist Voice Organization is a United States
communist group centered around Communist Voice magazine. The group also publishes Detroit Workers' Voice and a "revolutionary literary zine
," Struggle. Its major spokesperson goes by the name Joseph Green.
In 1981, as many similar groups moved to the right-wing, the Marxist-Leninist Party USA attempted to absorb other anti-revisionist
s and simultaneously began a reassessment of its politics. By the late 1980s the MLP had come to the conclusion that "anti-revisionism" meant that they had to reject traditional support of the international communist movement's positions from the time of the 1935 Congress of the Communist International onwards. This decision led to an ideological impasse within the MLP.
At its fifth congress in November 1993 the MLP voted to dissolve itself, but some local MLP groups disagreed with this decision. One such group became the Communist Voice Organization.
The CVO emphasizes the importance of theory for the revolutionary movement, and criticizes Trotskyism
, Stalinism
, and Maoism
as "fake communism" adapted to the interests of the ruling class
. Because of this rejection of the major 20th century branches of communism, the group is sometimes seen as left communist
although CV criticizes the left communism as well.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
communist group centered around Communist Voice magazine. The group also publishes Detroit Workers' Voice and a "revolutionary literary zine
Zine
A zine is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier....
," Struggle. Its major spokesperson goes by the name Joseph Green.
In 1981, as many similar groups moved to the right-wing, the Marxist-Leninist Party USA attempted to absorb other anti-revisionist
Anti-Revisionist
In the Marxist–Leninist movement, anti-revisionism refers to a doctrine which upholds the line of theory and practice associated with Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, and usually either Mao Zedong or Enver Hoxha as well...
s and simultaneously began a reassessment of its politics. By the late 1980s the MLP had come to the conclusion that "anti-revisionism" meant that they had to reject traditional support of the international communist movement's positions from the time of the 1935 Congress of the Communist International onwards. This decision led to an ideological impasse within the MLP.
At its fifth congress in November 1993 the MLP voted to dissolve itself, but some local MLP groups disagreed with this decision. One such group became the Communist Voice Organization.
The CVO emphasizes the importance of theory for the revolutionary movement, and criticizes Trotskyism
Trotskyism
Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky considered himself an orthodox Marxist and Bolshevik-Leninist, arguing for the establishment of a vanguard party of the working-class...
, Stalinism
Stalinism
Stalinism refers to the ideology that Joseph Stalin conceived and implemented in the Soviet Union, and is generally considered a branch of Marxist–Leninist ideology but considered by some historians to be a significant deviation from this philosophy...
, and Maoism
Maoism
Maoism, also known as the Mao Zedong Thought , is claimed by Maoists as an anti-Revisionist form of Marxist communist theory, derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong . Developed during the 1950s and 1960s, it was widely applied as the political and military guiding...
as "fake communism" adapted to the interests of the ruling class
Ruling class
The term ruling class refers to the social class of a given society that decides upon and sets that society's political policy - assuming there is one such particular class in the given society....
. Because of this rejection of the major 20th century branches of communism, the group is sometimes seen as left communist
Left communism
Left communism is the range of communist viewpoints held by the communist left, which criticizes the political ideas of the Bolsheviks at certain periods, from a position that is asserted to be more authentically Marxist and proletarian than the views of Leninism held by the Communist International...
although CV criticizes the left communism as well.
External links
- Communist Voice: a Journal of Revolutionary Theory
- Detroit Workers Voice leaflets
- Struggle, a Magazine of Proletarian Revolutionary Literature
Some articles from Communist Voice
- A modern and thorough critique of Trotskyism
- Against Stalinism
- The coming of the environmental crisis and the fear of a carbon dictatorship
- Other articles on how to fight the threat of global warming and the failure of market-based solutions including the carbon tax
- On the transitional period between capitalism and communism
- In defense of the right of nations to self-determination
- In defense of the Leninist theory of imperialism
- US imperialism, get out of Iraq!
- The debate on the 'defend Iraq' slogan, and the need to support the Iraqi masses against both foreign imperialism and local reactionaries
- In defense of anti-militarist agitation and the anti-draft movement
- The Marxist view of land reform and small-scale production
- A defense of Marx and Engels on the transformation problem, pt 1
- Today's Russia and the former state-capitalist Soviet Union
- The 1960's: Castroists heading to 'communism' without the workers
- More articles from the debate on Cuba
- Against the Maoist cultism of the RCP
- On Maoism and Chinese state capitalism
- On the non-class anti-imperialism of Noam Chomsky
- On Michael Albert's and Robin Hahnel's participatory economics (parecon)
- A modern critique of anarchism
- For national health care!
- Full rights for immigrants!