A revolutionary socialist organizing project
A review of “Revolution as Realpolitik. Ernst Meyer (1887–1930) – Biography of a KPD Chairman”
by John MarotUnderstanding the revolutionary process in Germany, over the first half of the twentieth century, and especially in the period from 1917 to 1928, is critically important for all revolutionaries. John Marot reviews Florian Wilde’s contribution to this understanding in his biography of one of the leaders of the German revolutionary movement, Ernst Mayer.
A reply to Helen Scott and Paul Le Blanc
by John MarotIn a follow up to his article, Rosa Luxemburg and the democratic road to socialist revolution, John Marot responds to Helen Scott and Paul Le Blanc.
John Marot explains how Luxemburg’s ideas of revolutionary democracy developed in light of the German Revolution.
In a new book, Russia scholar Lars Lih sees a basic continuity in Bolshevism from 1903 to Stalin. John Marot argues that party history was marked instead by major turns—first toward socialist revolution and later a break away from it.
John Marot argues that the politics of the Third International, formed in 1919, did not just carry forward the positions of the Left wing of the Second. The Russian Revolution of 1917 changed what the Left thought about workers’ power.
A review of Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882–1917)
by John MarotJohn Marot reviews Eric Blanc’s Revolutionary Social Democracy.