Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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The Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian
: Неокоммунистическая партия Советского Союза (НКПСС)) was a left-wing dissident political party founded in the Soviet Union in 1974. The party formed from a merger of Vasili Minorsky and Alexander Tarasov's
Party of New Communists and the Left School. Tarasov would become one of the party's leading theoreticians, writing the party's programme, The Principles of Neocommunism. Tarasov was arrested by the KGB in 1975, but was not brought to trial. Instead, he was sent to a special psychiatric hospital. After his release, he headed the Neo-Communist Party until its self-dissolution in January 1985.
, as well as the New Left
philosophies of Herbert Marcuse
, Che Guevara
and Régis Debray
from members of the of the New Communists, as well as the Left School's ideas of existentialism
, influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre
, Albert Camus
and Antoine de Saint-Exupery
.
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
: Неокоммунистическая партия Советского Союза (НКПСС)) was a left-wing dissident political party founded in the Soviet Union in 1974. The party formed from a merger of Vasili Minorsky and Alexander Tarasov's
Alexander Tarasov
Alexander Nikolaevich Tarasov is a Russian Post-Marxist theoretician, sociologist and historian. Tarasov was a left-wing political dissident in the Soviet Union.- Biography :...
Party of New Communists and the Left School. Tarasov would become one of the party's leading theoreticians, writing the party's programme, The Principles of Neocommunism. Tarasov was arrested by the KGB in 1975, but was not brought to trial. Instead, he was sent to a special psychiatric hospital. After his release, he headed the Neo-Communist Party until its self-dissolution in January 1985.
Ideology
The party's formation from a merger of diverse groups promoted ideological cross-fertilization. The Neo-Communist Party brought a fusion of TrotskyismTrotskyism
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...
, as well as the New Left
New Left
The New Left was a term used mainly in the United Kingdom and United States in reference to activists, educators, agitators and others in the 1960s and 1970s who sought to implement a broad range of reforms, in contrast to earlier leftist or Marxist movements that had taken a more vanguardist...
philosophies of Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse was a German Jewish philosopher, sociologist and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory...
, Che Guevara
Che Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...
and Régis Debray
Régis Debray
Jules Régis Debray is a French intellectual, journalist, government official and professor. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society; and for having fought in 1967 with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in...
from members of the of the New Communists, as well as the Left School's ideas of existentialism
Existentialism
Existentialism is a term applied to a school of 19th- and 20th-century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, shared the belief that philosophical thinking begins with the human subject—not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual...
, influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, particularly Marxism, and was one of the key figures in literary...
, Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Albert Camus was a French author, journalist, and key philosopher of the 20th century. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was opposed to some tendencies of the Surrealist movement of André Breton.Camus was awarded the 1957...
and Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , officially Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint Exupéry , was a French writer, poet and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of France's highest literary awards, and in 1939 was the winner of the U.S. National Book Award...
.