Author: Harkishan Singh Surjeet
Publisher: LeftWord
Year: 1993
Language: English
Pages: 387
ISBN/UPC (if available): N/A
Description
The seminar on Contemporary World Situation and the Validity of Marxism acquired great importance both nationally and internationally. Its deliberations drew the attention of the communists world wide. The seminar has in effect fulfilled the yearning of communists for a discussion on the validity of Marxism in the background of the setbacks suffered by socialism with the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the collapse of the socialist regimes in the east European countries.
It was precisely in the background of the developments during the last few years, and the massive propaganda blitzkrieg launched by imperialism and its spokesmen that the holding of such a seminar was proposed. The imperialist propaganda offensive sought to depict that socialism is dead, communism has no future and that capitalism is the last stage in the evolution of human society. Its paid scribes sought to negate the history of the last 150 years, that had seen the discoveries of Marx shedding a new light on philosophy, political economy and the social sciences. The study and works on Marx that brought a hitherto unknown approach on understanding and comprehending contemporary developments, were sought to be challenged.
Contents
PART I
Introduction
Participating Delegations
Opening Remarks By Surjeet
PART II
PAPERS
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Communist Party of Cuba
Workers Party of Korea
Communist Party of Vietnam
Socialist Party of Australia
Workers Party of Bangladesh
Workers Party of Belgium
Communist Party of Brazil
Communist Party of Britain
Communist Party of Canada
Communist Party of France
German Communist Party
Communist Party of Greece
Communist Party of India
Popular Socialist Party of Mexico
Communist Party of Nepal (UML)
Communist Party of Philippines
Portuguese Communist Party
South African Communist Party
Workers’ Party of Turkey
Tudeh Party of Iran
Syrian Communist Party
Communist Party of USA
PART III
FIRST ROUND OF INTERVENTIONS
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Communist Party of Cuba
Workers Party of Korea
Socialist Party of Australia
Workers Party of Bangladesh
Workers Party of Belgium
Communist Party of Brazil
Communist Party of Britain
New Communist Party of Britain
Communist Party of Canada
Communist Party of France
German Communist Party
Communist Party of Greece
Communist Party of Greece
Communist Party of India
Popular Socialist Party of Mexico
Communist Party of India
Popular Socialist Party of Mexico
Communist Party of Nepal (UML)
Communist Party of Philippines
Portuguese Communist Party
South African Communist Party
PART IV
SECOND ROUND OF INTERVENTIONS
Socialist Party of Australia
Workers Party of Belgium
Communist Party of Canada
Communist Party of France
Communist Party of India
Popular Socialist Party of Mexico
South African Communist Party
Working in a federal structure in India-Jyoti Basu in reply to SACP
PART V
MESSAGES RECEIVED
Communist Party of China
AKEL of Cyprus
Kim II Sung
Communist Refoundation of Italy
Communist Party of Mauritius
Communist Party of Russian Federation
Russian Communist Workers Party
CONCLUDING REMARKS BY SURJEET