You’re not wrong with the SWCC, it might be to generalist a term. Likewise for the communist/socialist demarcation, I think we agree but in different ways.
It’s possible documents can confuse new readers, but I think that remains to be proven. Sometimes there’s also good analysis in places, and bad analysis in others. One thing we don’t want to do is edit the works we put in the library, which is something that marxists.org does, like editing Stalin to make him look bad. We’re strictly a publisher for now.
I’m not sure it’s documented anywhere, but if you read anything by Trotsky on there it’s full of inline notes to explain what he means, and these notes are full of words like “Stalinists” or “bureaucrats” lol.
You’re not wrong with the SWCC, it might be to generalist a term. Likewise for the communist/socialist demarcation, I think we agree but in different ways.
It’s possible documents can confuse new readers, but I think that remains to be proven. Sometimes there’s also good analysis in places, and bad analysis in others. One thing we don’t want to do is edit the works we put in the library, which is something that marxists.org does, like editing Stalin to make him look bad. We’re strictly a publisher for now.
ooh that sounds interesting, is there a link I can read more about this?
I’m not sure it’s documented anywhere, but if you read anything by Trotsky on there it’s full of inline notes to explain what he means, and these notes are full of words like “Stalinists” or “bureaucrats” lol.
Here they admit themselves to editing Lenin to remove “pro-Stalin bias” from editors: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/note.htm
They also removed portions from Mastering Bolshevism about restraint and care, compare yourself:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1937/03/03.htm
http://www.marx2mao.com/Stalin/MB37.html