El artículo condensa el periodo en el cual Ana María Rico Galán tomó decisiones claves en su vida personal al involucrarse en el Movimiento Revolucionario del Pueblo (MRP, 1964-1966), cuyo propósito ...fue la toma del poder mediante las armas. No se conoce su praxis política ni sus ideas revolucionarias. Mi acercamiento a sus contornos biográficos, en el periodo de su mayor actividad política en la configuración del MRP, lo realizo mediante el acopio de instrumental teórico metodológico desde la historia política de la izquierda y la historia de las mujeres y de las relaciones de género. Mi intención es que, al darle visibilidad en el concierto de los estudios del movimiento armado socialista en México, se concrete como un aporte con enfoque de género en el examen de mujeres transgresoras que perseguían el paradigma de la revolución.
The idea of a Fifth International has been around for some time and the historical record is not encouraging. We have all been wrestling with the contradictions the Left faces. The transnational ...capitalist class has taken setbacks in its stride, while the Left flounders almost everywhere. No communist revolution has resulted in the capture of power by the working class. Now we are all confronted by a new, rapidly unfolding ecological crisis, the Anthropocene. I argue that the most effective response is to exit rather than attempt to overthrow capitalism and the hierarchical state by international revolution. Socialists in positions of authority in state institutions and capitalist enterprises can facilitate this process by enacting legislation that helps people to transition to new smaller-scale non-statist social units, such as producer-consumer co-operatives producing their own food and other essential services over time. Mobilizing the ideas of degrowth, anarching, and consumer-producer cooperatives in the digital age, I argue that under Anthropocene conditions democratic socialism is best constructed from the bottom up, community by community, networked in mutually nurturing relationships.
This article presents my views on Marxism from ten aspects: (1) the definition of Marxism; (2) the holistic character of Marxism; (3) the sinicization of Marxism; (4) policy orientation of Marxism; ...(5) the internationalization of Marxism; (6) the three stages of socialism and the view of social system in Marxism; (7) the differentiation of the basic tenets of Marxism that must be adhered to in the long run from the dogmatic understanding of Marxism that must be abandoned; (8) innovation in Marxism; (9) the development of different schools of Marxism; and (10) the role of Marxist scholars and the view of academic research in Marxism.
This essay pays tribute to Arif Dirlik's critical approach to the Asia-Pacific in the 1990s and to China today. It uses the example of Dirlik's writing as a model for reflecting on transformations ...that the region has undergone in the last thirty years, with a focus on the historical experience of the Philippines. It draws on Dirlik's analysis of the continuing role of colonialism and anti-colonial nationalism and the legacy of the socialist revolution in China to understand the key features of the Duterte regime in the Philippines, which are both comparable and directly related to developments in China in the context of global capitalism. Finally, the essay follows Dirlik's own moves in seeking what is overlooked and remains politically significant within these various hegemonic geopolitical projects, that is, older organizational systems and kinship networks understood as subaltern forces of both the global metropolitanist economy and authoritarian populism.
The article is devoted to the study of the life path and revolutionary activity of Ivan Fedorovich Pavlyukov (Agapov), the undeservedly forgotten leader of the Tsaritsyn Bolsheviks. He came to the ...leadership of the Bolshevik faction in the local organization of the RSDLP in JulyAugust 1917 during the imprisonment of S. K. Minin and Ya. Z. Erman. It was he who led the creation and arming of the Red Guard detachments, and then the establishment of Soviet power in Tsaritsyn. The leadership of the RCP(B) accused him of indecision. S. K. Minin tried to consign his role in the October events to oblivion. This work was completed by I. V. Stalin’s chekists, who accused I. F. Pavlyukov of Trotskyism. He was subjected to repression and, apparently, disappeared in Stalin’s dungeons. Ispart’s materials contain his memories of the October days in Tsaritsyn, which we publish in the appendix to the article.
The celebration of the October Revolution in the late Soviet period (1968–1984) is explored in this article. The empirical ground of the research is based on materials from the Tomsk periodical ...press. The theoretical foundations fit into the framework of the historiographic discussion between Aleksey Yurchak (the concept of the perfomative shift of ideological discourse) and Caroline Humphrey (the idea of a «creative» initiative based on the mimesis strategy). The holiday context is studied through the triad «structure–hyperstructure–anti-structure», which explains the stages of the celebration that existed during the researching period. The author poses the problem of the logic of constructing and reproducing the basic mechanisms of celebratory action on local material. Actualization of the research is considered through the situation of the modern status of commemorative spaces of «trauma» and «nostalgia» regarding the events of the October Revolution. The main research conclusions are related to determining the boundaries of the triad of celebratory actions and utterances under consideration. According to the source material, the combination of mechanisms for the implementation of hyperstructure and anti-structure of the celebration of the October Revolution Day reproduced the basis of the celebration — «structure» (which, by definition, should be a reflection of Soviet reality itself). So, the late Soviet celebration of the October Revolution did not reflect the principles of the classical «ritual process» (according to V. Turner)
After the “socialist revolution” in 1977, the Seychelles introduced a universal social pension, free education and free health care. This path of the Seychelles to universal social policies is unique ...in several regards. On the one hand, the policies were financed by economic growth triggered by a non-dogmatic economic policy that focused on three partly state-led, partly privately driven key sectors. Especially important were services (tourism, finance) that replaced the colonial plantation economy. On the other hand, the country also successfully navigated the Cold War by attracting capitalist development aid to finance “socialist” policies. Finally, social policies contributed to a relatively high standard of living and persisted throughout economic and political liberalisation.
The stages of the formation of a model for the organization of dermatovenereological care to the population of the Russian Federation during the period from 1917 to 2017 were analyzed.
The present study describes the state of the Russian Empire on the eve of the bourgeois-democratic revolution of February 1917. Based on the use of various sources, the author ascertains that not ...only on the military level, but also from a political, legal, socio-economic and ethno-confessional point of view, Russia was threatened by serious social-political convulsions. Evidence of this is that, only a few months after the February 1917 revolution, a new socialist revolution took place in Russia, with serious repercussions for the whole country’s historical destiny.
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