The Three Sources and Three Components of Marxism

[Die Neue Zeit]

I have done some surfing on the Internet, checking out the various historical and modern party programs. For example, the 1986 CPSU program introduction (http://www.xs4all.nl/~eurodos/docu/cpsu-texts/cpsu86-0.htm#Introduction) is so dry, and the current Chinese "Communist" Party program (http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/49109.htm) is full of lengthy garbage. For any revolutionary socialist/communist party out there (including an international one (http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php?showtopic=65355&st=0) as espoused primarily by left-communists, as well as by a few "Leninist" Marxists like myself), is Lenin's work below a good basis for a party program/constitution preamble? Also, any comments on the text itself?

The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism (http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm)

[Rawthentic]

I'd say that Lenin's article is very important, although it seems more like a summation of Marx's basic theories.

I am with you in the idea of a world communist party. Interestingly enough, the CL is an international, non-sectarian proletarian communist organization.

The programs of the CCP and the CPSU are so much crap, paying lip-service to Marxism and "Leninism." I find it disgusting that China is doing so even today.

[Janus]

Why was this in Study Groups?

[Die Neue Zeit]

Originally posted by [email protected] 31, 2007 09:15 pm
Why was this in Study Groups?
^^^ I assume you moved it, but it is a work in its right. Maybe it's too brief for study there, and perhaps I made the text too relevant to today's world by asking a question for today and tomorrow. :(

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

I think we can drop the philosophical rubbish inherited from Hegel.

[Tower of Bebel]

Originally posted by Rosa [email protected] 02, 2007 07:13 pm
I think we can drop the philosophical rubbish inherited from Hegel.
I'm very surprised to see you writing this :P .

I really don't know what to think about Lenin's "source". It could be usefull, but as you can see it can be turned easily into garbage.

[Die Neue Zeit]

Originally posted by Raccoon+June 02, 2007 07:39 pm--> (Raccoon @ June 02, 2007 07:39 pm)
Rosa [email protected] 02, 2007 07:13 pm
I think we can drop the philosophical rubbish inherited from Hegel.
I'm very surprised to see you writing this :P .

I really don't know what to think about Lenin's "source". It could be usefull, but as you can see it can be turned easily into garbage. [/b]
^^^ Personally, I think that Lenin should've just focused on the philosophy of materialism.

By the way, was the philosophy of materialism inspired by German philosophical thought?

[syndicat]

I don't really know of any serious German materialists, other than Marx, prior to the 20th century. Modern materialist philosophy, among technical non-Marxist philosophers, is mainly a product of the 20th century, I think. Aristotle's philosophy could be regarded as an early form of materialism, I suppose. Wikipedia has an article on materialism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism