![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To evaluate these last fifty years is essential if one is to eradicate the roots of revisionism, and to establish the unity of the international communist movement, on the basis of marxist-leninist principles and proletarian internationalism. Since the surprise attack of Kruschev against Stalin during the XXth Congress of the CPSU in 1956, the international communist movement has been politically undermined by revisionism a series of splits have gravely divided and weakened it. Please credit the Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line as your source, include the url to this work, and note any of the transcribers, editors & proofreaders above.Įditor’s Note: The complete collapse of the socialist system in Soviet Union, undermined and subverted since decades, and the victory of counter-revolution in that country, make it necessary for all communists to reevaluate the evolution of the international communist movement during the last fifty years. You can freely copy, distribute and display this work as well as make derivative and commercial works. Transcription, Editing and Markup: Sam Richards and Paul SabaĬopyright: This work is in the Public Domain under the Creative Commons Common Deed. ![]() Ludo Martens On certain aspects of the struggle against revisionism For the unity of all communists, in defence of proletarian internationalismįirst Delivered: To a seminar in India, March 1995. For the unity of all communists, in defence of proletarian internationalism Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line ![]()
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