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Marxism Versus Social Democracy

Source: Workers Library Publishers, New York, 1932.
Address delivered at Plenum Executive Committee of the Young Communist International by Bela Kun
Comrades,
March 14th, 1933, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the day on which humanity lost the most important mind it has ever possessed. Karl Marx, originator of Communism, founder and leader of the International Workingmen’s Association, […]

The Fruits of “Revolutionary” Chauvinism

First Published: Pravda June 1-2, 1918
Source: International Socialist Library No. 15, Revolutionary Essays by Bela Kun, B.S.P., London.
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“A thing, a phenomenon, may at one and the same time be both itself and something else.” This dialectical axiom is justified by consideration of the Czech movement. That which in Austria is revolutionary, and which there is […]

Marx and the Middle Classes

Author: Bela Kun - Hungarian and Russian communist leader
“The internal enemy” of the proletarian Russian Revolution is constituted first and foremost by the lower middle classes. The expropriation of the expropriators being carried out at present does not represent the most serious obstacle in the path of proletarian dictatorship. In the path of the expropriation […]