Selected works of Enver Hoxha now online

[Ismail]

Today the website enverhoxha.ru uploaded Volume I of Hoxha's Selected Works, thus completing a process started a year ago with the uploading of Volumes VI, V, IV, III and II.

Comprising 5542 PDF pages, these six volumes encompass various significant speeches, writings and other materials. Together with attempts by Marx2Mao to scan the collected works of Lenin (http://marx2mao.com/Lenin/Index.html) (still ongoing) and Stalin (http://marx2mao.com/Stalin/Index.html) (completed years ago), this constitutes yet another achievement in the sphere of the revolutionary internets.

* http://www.enverhoxha.ru/Archive_of_books/English/enver_hoxha_selected_works_volume_I_eng.pdf (April 1942 to October 1948)
* http://www.enverhoxha.ru/Archive_of_books/English/enver_hoxha_selected_works_volume_II_eng.pdf (November 1948 to November 1960)
* http://www.enverhoxha.ru/Archive_of_books/English/enver_hoxha_selected_works_volume_III_eng.pdf (June 1960 to October 1965)
* http://www.enverhoxha.ru/Archive_of_books/English/enver_hoxha_selected_works_volume_IV_eng.pdf (February 1966 to July 1975)
* http://www.enverhoxha.ru/Archive_of_books/English/enver_hoxha_selected_works_volume_V_eng.pdf (November 1976 to June 1980)
* http://www.enverhoxha.ru/Archive_of_books/English/enver_hoxha_selected_works_volume_VI_eng.pdf (July 1980 to December 1984)

Volume V in particular includes his most notable works such as Imperialism and the Revolution, Eurocommunism is Anti-Communism and his work on Yugoslav "self-administration."

Hoxha's Vepra (i.e. collected works in Albanian) run to 71 volumes, with more having been on the way when publication was discontinued in 1990.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Hmmm... why haven't these works appeared on MIA... will they appear on MIA? As long as they are up there somewhere online it is great but I just wonder whenever I see these kind of archive sites to leftist.

[Ismail]

MIA is overrated. Having scanned books (with appropriate page numbers, formatting, etc.) in PDF is superior. :D

[Ostrinski]

Yeah, then you can't copy paste anything.

[Drosophila]

Yeah, then you can't copy paste anything.

You need to use the selection tool in Adobe Reader.

[Ismail]

Yeah, then you can't copy paste anything.Depends on the sort of PDF. Some have OCR, thus allowing you to copy text from them.

[jookyle]

I for one, am quite happy this. I've used some of his writings in a paper on China. It's great that these complete works are publicly available.

[Robespierres Neck]

Thank you, Ismail.

[Dazdra Flynn]

Enver Hoxha is an interesting case in that he's a relatively small figure in the neoliberal picture of communism. Even among leftists, he doesn't seem to be particularly well known. This is a shame, because the history of socialism in Albania is an interesting one, particularly with regards to national liberation and religion. It's interesting to see how the freedom of religion of which the Albanian people were ostensibly robbed has plagued modern Albania with oppression and violence.

[Ismail]

Even among leftists, he doesn't seem to be particularly well known.The pro-Albanian line in international communism was known and talked about in Maoist, Trot and Soviet revisionist papers and works throughout the 70's and 80's. The difference is that parties upholding this line tended to be in the third world and Albania itself was and is seen as an obscure country.

Some of the largest pro-Albanian parties were the PCdoB in Brazil (largest communist party there), the PCMLE in Ecuador, the PCB in Benin (which was the main opposition force against the Kérékou government) and the PMT in Mali (main opposition force against the Traoré government.) There were some other notable pro-Albanian parties in Nicaragua, Colombia and both West and East Germany.

Although bourgeois and Soviet revisionist sources sometimes noted that these and other parties were pro-Albanian in orientation, a lot just grouped them under the "Maoist" category since they were pro-Stalin and opposed Soviet social-imperialism.

[Luís Henrique]

Some of the largest pro-Albanian parties were the PCdoB in Brazil (largest communist party there),

The PCdoB is - by far - the largest Brazilian party to have the word "communist" in its name... now, that it is no longer pro-Albanian or even vaguely Hoxhaist. When it was pro-Albanian, it was way smaller than the then pro-Soviet PCB, although it was quite probably the second largest force in the Brazilian left, at least if we do not count the obviously non-working class populist left of the PDT kind.

Nowadays, the PCdoB is a good ally of the PT; indeed a very faithful junior partner in Dilma's government - as it was in Lula's government. It causes less problems for the majority of the PT, in fact, than most of its internal oppositionist left-wing tendencies.

The PCB, on the other hand, reduced to a very small fraction of what it used to be before the end of the SU, has veered ultra-left, as its more openly reformist tendencies have rebuilt themselves as the PPS, giving up even the appearance of any commitment to socialism, and usually supports either the PSTU or the PSOL in their unsuccessful attempts to conform a left-wing opposition to the PT.

Luís Henrique

[Ostrinski]

I've been waiting for this my whole life.

[GoddessCleoLover]

When I first became politically active back in the 70s Enver Hoxha was still allied with Mao and China in general. I suppose the final straw for that alliance was China's decision to cozy up to Tito. Albania seems to have gotten squeezed in a diplomatic power play. I am no Hoxha-ist but I thought back in the day that the Three Worlds theory was reactionary.

[Ismail]

[explanation of PCdoB since then]Yes. Roach discussed the PCdoB's odyssey in a bit more detail:

Well, before adopting the Albanian line, the PCdoB was passing through difficult times, their armed wing was destroyed in Araguaia and due to that defeat the party had been divided amongst two proposals, one was João Arroyo's proposal, one of the few survivors of the guerrilla effort in Araguia, Arroyo's proposal was that the guerrilla effort was a great example of socialist heroism and that its defeat was purely in the military aspect, with no real political setbacks. The other one, Pedro Pomar's proposal was probably the one more close to reality, it consisted of a critical perception of the Araguia guerrilla, Pedro Pomar saw that in spite of all the heroism show by the military wing of the PCdoB, the guerrilla had much of the revisionist foquist mindset, that it had few political agitation campaigns, its focus was much more on military actions instead of political actions, and this ended up alienating the local peasants and loosing their much needed support. When the meeting of the Central Committee of the PCdoB was going to happen, one of its members named Jover Telles told the place and time of the meeting for the Brazilian military in exchange of his freedom and a bribe of one hundred thousand dollars, consequently all the CC was killed, except for Amazonas and a few others whom had been sent to Albania and China to tell the PLA and CPC of the defeat in Araguaia.

Instead of re-starting the discussion about the future of the party with its survivors and electing a new CC, Amazonas personally chose the party delegates and imposed a new line, that didn't realy seem to follow either Pomar or Arroyo's path in spite of a few mentions to the heroism of the guerrilla fighters in Araguaia, the new CC rejected armed struggle, ironically the whole reason behind the split with the old PCB was that the General Secretary, a Khruschevite named Luís Carlos Prestes, had dissolved and formed a new CC, appointed party delegates according to his own will and disrespected all intra-party democracy to end the aspirations of armed struggle held by the most experienced cadre, that in those days included Amazonas himself. Admittedly, the PCdoB was exhausted thanks to the constant defeats that had taken place. But even that doesn't explain the opportunist alliances with bourgeois parties that Amazonas pursued when he got back to Brazil, that again echoed the policies of supporting ''lesser evil'' candidates that the Khruschevites pursued back from the late 40s to the early 60s. Instead of considering that the end of the Military Dictatorship was not a victory, since the Brazilian generals did not pay for their crimes and simply gave up their positions in the goverment by placing civilian politicians as servile to imperialism as they were, Amazonas simply tailled oportunists such as Lula. By the 90s the PCdoB had lost most of its unionized workers, its peasant groups and now consisted manly of former ''Christian Maoists'' stundent groups lead by the dengist-to-be Aldo Rebelo, while not particular being a hit in the ballot boxes, the PCdoB grew in influence thanks to it's alliance with the PT of Lula, this contradictory existence, with an alliance with the PT trotskyites and the rejection of armed struggle that in the end was the raison d'etre of Brazilian marxist-leninists, lead to the all-together abandoning of anything that was consistent in their politics on the Party Congress of 1992. Today, bourgeois academics praise the PCdoB for being a great example of ''socialist pragmatism'' and ''political realism''.

Also keep in mind that the PCdoB never officially called itself Maoist and most of the help it received was from Albania not China. Pomar himself saw the Albanians as more supportive to the PCdoB than the Chinese.
When I first became politically active back in the 70s Enver Hoxha was still allied with Mao and China in general. I suppose the final straw for that alliance was China's decision to cozy up to Tito. Albania seems to have gotten squeezed in a diplomatic power play. I am no Hoxha-ist but I thought back in the day that the Three Worlds theory was reactionary.Hoxha started having significant misgivings about China when it launched its "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution." The whole Kissinger-Nixon visits to Beijing and the announcement of the "Three Worlds Theory" were when Sino-Albanian relations began to decline, and in 1978, after Albanian attacks on the "theory," the Chinese cut off their agreements with the Albanians.

It's worth noting that even after the Sino-Albanian split, the Albanians never ignored the fact that for 15 years they were the only ideologically pro-Chinese country in the world. They continued to uphold their defense of the CCP in its disputes with the Soviets over various issues of principle in the 60's, and against underhanded Soviet attempts to rally the world's communist parties against the CCP in 1957-60.

[Yet_Another_Boring_Marxist]

This thread makes me sad face:(

But thanks Ismail, it'll be good to read some Hoxha

[Grenzer]

The awkward moment when on a supposedly intellectual leftist website this is the best we can come up with to insult each other. This is the reason that I am against sectarianism: it leads to trite and consistent responses (although the posters might like to think that they are being clever).

You're not against sectarianism: you're the most opportunist and partisan sectarian on the entire site. No one is so vocal in their demand that the communist movement subordinate itself to nationalism and other forms of bourgeois ideology than you. This is the most sectarian position that one can have as it most directly advocates the atomization and pulverization of a strong, independent proletarian movement more so than any other position.

[Sasha]

I'm by no means a fan of anti-revisionist Marxism-Leninism or any other form of it but a lot of you are truly being dicks.


this, trashed all the flame baits/trolls & general warning to the flame baiters, one more such post and its infraction time.

[Fruit of Ulysses]

Hoxha. what a stud.

[Ismail]

Hoxha. what a stud.http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc207/MrdieII/enver_hoxha_3_1.jpg