Herman Gorter

Dear Comrade Lenin:

When we last parted in November of 1920, your last words on our quite divergent ideas concerning revolutionary tactics in Western Europe were to the effect that neither your opinions nor mine had been sufficiently tested: that experience would soon prove which of the two is correct.

We were in complete agreement on that.

Anton Pannekoek responds in 1952 to criticisms of the polics of Herman Gorter

Herman Gorter - September 1921

The post-war situation of the international workers' movement is distinguished from the pre-war period by certain fundamental changes.

OPEN LETTER TO COMRADE LENIN

by Herman Gorter

INTRODUCTION by WILDCAT

The current period is one in which Communism is supposed to be bankrupt. The recent events in China and the open acceptance of market economics and political democracy by most of Eastern Europe are used by the Western media to convince us that the epoch of communism, which they say began with the Russian revolution of October 1917, is coming to an end.