Adolf Warski defends the Paris Commune, Soviet Russia and the dictatorship of the proletariat

Adolf Warski, (born Adolf Jerzy Warszawski, 1868-1937) was one most important activist and theoreticians of Polish workers’ movement. In the article below, Warski engages in a polemic with the social democratic critics of the dictatorship of the proletariat and defends of Marxist theory of the state.

Jarosław Dąbrowski. Translated writings from the hero of the Paris Commune

The following collection contains writings (proclamations, orders, correspondence) written by Jarosław Dąbrowski (November 13, 1836 – May 23, 1871), an outstanding Polish revolutionary-internationalist and hero of the Paris Commune.

“Who lives off what?” by Szymon Dickstein: “A textbook for the people” (Lenin) translated into English

We hereby present the brochure “Who lives off what?” from 1881 by Szymon Dickstein – one of the key pioneers of the Polish socialist movement.

From defender to critic of “really existing socialism”. On Wsiewołod Wołczew

The document presented here is a peculiar one. And that is for two reasons. Firstly, because of its context; it is an analysis and critique of so-called “really existing socialism” written in 1989 as that system was collapsing. Secondly, because of its author, Wsiewołod Wołczew (1929-1993)^*, who first came into public consciousness in the early 1980s as one of that system’s most rabid defenders.

On the 1944 Warsaw Uprising

August 1 is solemnly celebrated in Poland as the anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. The anniversary is included in the official „historical policy”, in which the tragic fate of the uprising is presented as the effect of the „Soviet stab in the back” of the heroic Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK). To deal with this reactionary posing of the question, it is necessary to put it in a broader historical perspective.

What to remember on August 15

Along with the next anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw, a propaganda campaign takes place in which all the reactionary fantasies of official anti-communist historiography spread over the last 3 decades are repeated. To resist them, we need to understand the historical context of the Polish-Bolshevik war.