Marxism and Socialist Revolution

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Where this source is used

• Eley documents participants and organizations in early communist networks across Europe, East and Central Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.

  • supports · pp. 49–73, especially the M. N. Roy and José Carlos Mariátegui vignettes

• Eley presents M. N. Roy and José Carlos Mariátegui as revising revolutionary programs while disputing aspects of Comintern direction.

  • supports · pp. 49–73, especially the M. N. Roy and José Carlos Mariátegui vignettes

• Communism can refer to a classless social ideal, a revolutionary tradition or movement, a party identity, or a label claimed for historical institutions, and those referents must be evaluated separately.

  • supports · pp. 49–73

• A party name or state self-description establishes an actor's claimed identity, not that its institutions realize any one communist account of property, class, distribution, authority, or the state.

  • supports · pp. 49–73

• The modern communist traditions represented in these sources formed within nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century socialist debates over class, property, political organization, and revolution.

  • supports · pp. 49–73

• Eley describes late-nineteenth-century socialist organization as a dispute among mass-party, parliamentary, anarchist, syndicalist, and other strategies rather than a single agreed route to change.

  • supports · pp. 49–73, especially ‘Organizing Socialism’ and ‘Revolution and Reform Under the Second International’