This is a transcription of a speech given by Stalin in 1937. The full title on ProleWiki is “On the shortcomings of party work and measures to eliminate Trotskyist and other double-dealers”. You can read the text here.
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- The Defeat of One’s Own Government in the Imperialist War
- How to Be a Good Communist
- The Wretched of the Earth (1, 2-3, 4, 5-)
- The Foundations of Leninism
- Decolonization is not a metaphor
- Marxism and the National Question
- China Has Billionaires
- Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism
- Wage Labour and Capital
- Value, Price and Profit
The basic point is that even if our state (USSR in 1937 or China in 2025) is technologically on par with the enemy, we must still stay as vigilant as in 1918. The enemy is backed from abroad, and it’s still true for China. It’s easier to destroy a factory than build it. Even if the enemy is not technologically superior anymore, their agents can wreck havoc without being numerous.
All the good countries like the AES states, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger must remember that. Is this work useful for us in capitalist countries? Yes
FYI the marxists version of these speeches is missing an entire section, I recommend the marx2mao one or we have it on PW too
Thanks, updated. I didn’t find it on ProleWiki earlier because it’s published under a different title
I think the link has a typo in it, just fyi. thankfully the prolewiki version doesn’t have the snarky intro added
it did indeed, thanks
I split up the prolewiki version into subchapters with our new (WIP) script for your reading pleasure comrades :)
You can now enjoy the book either all from the parent page (as our books are now in the library), or you can click on any heading in the table of content on the page (not the one in the sidebar) to be taken to an individual chapter view, with integrated navigation
