How the Critique of Political Economy Website Falsifies and Distorts the Truth

The Critique of Political Economy website is a leftist platform that publishes articles, translations, and theoretical analyses in the areas of political economy and social movements. It gives the impression that its contributors ‒ authors and translators are primarily researchers, theoretical activists, and independent writers working outside the formal structures of academia ‒ although some do hold academic positions.

In other words, while the website is not an academic research centre in the conventional sense, it seeks to demonstrate ‒ through the publication of in-depth, serious, and scholarly content ‒ that its intellectual output is the result of rigorous theoretical work. This work is carried out by thinkers who independently engage in the critique and examination of contemporary issues and concepts from a leftist perspective.

The fact that a leftist website examines various leftist perspectives on political, economic, and social issues ‒ and even introduces different currents of leftist thought ‒ is generally a positive step, as it helps to recognise and highlight the diversity within leftist viewpoints. This matter primarily concerns the broader leftist movements and is not directly related to the communists, provided that, in doing so, it does not distort or falsify communist left.

The website Critique of Political Economy, under the heading “Introduction Writing for Translation”, has engaged in the distortion and falsification of the positions of Communist Left. This text, written in defence of Communist Left, aims to expose the nature of these distortions, reversals, and falsifications, and to reveal the underlying motives behind such actions. Furthermore, by translating and appending articles from other tendencies within Communist Left, it seeks to contribute to a clearer political milieu and to take a step towards advancing the positions of Communist Left.

Table of Contents:

•    Introduction
•    Fabrication of False Narratives
•    The Communist Left: A Brief Overview
•    The Distortion and Falsification of the Communist Left
•    Russian Branch
•    The Decline of Capitalism: Strategic Developments in the Class Struggle
•    The Inversion of the Class Struggle and Trade Unions
•    The Subversion of Internationalist Solidarity
•    The Material Preconditions for World Revolution
•    The Necessity of a World Party
•    The Communist Left: Conclusion
•    Appendix A (International Communist Current)
•    Appendix B (Internationalist Communist Tendency)
•    Basic Positions 

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