The three essays here supplement the treatment of anarchism in Vol. IV of Hal Draper's Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution, (Monthly Review Press, 1990). All three concern writers whose work is considered a—in the first two cases prescient—critique of the new ruling class that grew up in the 1930s in Russia after the defeat of the European-wide revolution that followed World War I.
While this episode is outside the historical scope of KMTR, the response to it by these three authors is derived in large part from the anarchist critique of Marxism and the Social Democracy of the last half of the 19th century.
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