Language: English
Published by A Young Socialist Publication, Colombo, Ceylon, 1969
Seller: Theoria Books, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 76 pp. Following Preface and Introduction, Contents divided into 2 Parts: Part One: THE OPPORTUNIST METHOD "The Adaptation of Capitalism"; "The Realization of Socialism Through Social Reform"; "Capitalism and the State"; "The Consequences of Social Reformism and General Nature of Revisionism"; Part Two: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIALISM "Cooperatives, Unions, Democracy"; Conquest of Political Power"; "Collapse"; "Opportunism in Theory and Practice"; GLOSSARY OF NAMES pp. 75-76. Red wrappers or saddle-stiched pamphlet with glued spine (3 sewn stiches) ; Author name in small black letter cursive at top front cover; Title in large white letters at middle front cover; Publisher name lettering in small black cursive at bottom front cover. Nugatory soft creases at top left corner front cover and top right corner front cover, but spine unaffected (still tight); corners still square (NO bumps or curls); blue remainder mark on top edge; previous owner name and purchase date discreetly at top left inside front cover; NO rubbing wear. Clean text. Laid in (NO offsetting): I.F. Stone, "A revolution that resembles our own" (New York Times, 4 5 1981): "I wonder if our Polish brothers still remember Rosa Luxembourg. Sixty years ago this brilliant Polish Jewish Communist put her finger on the evils against which Solidarity and its dissident allies in the Polish Communist Party have begun successfully to revolt. . . Her criticism of Lenin and Trotsky was the more telling because of her credentials as both a Marxist theoretician and an active revolutionary . . . What Rosa Luxembourg had the courage to say aloud as early as 1918 describes what has happenedThe to the so-ca;;ed dictatorship of the proletariat in Poland as well as in Russia . . . ." The way to read a Classic Marxist Political Philosophy text.