Celebrate the 101st anniversary of the birth of Comrade Enver Hoxha!

The following article is from the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), marking the 100th birthday of Enver Hoxha, 1 year ago:

Celebrating the 100th birthday of Enver Hoxha:
Architect of socialist Albania, anti-revisionist fighter, and one of the great Marxist-Leninist heroes of the 20th century

Born in Gjirokastër, southern Albania, on 16 October 1908, Enver Hoxha was involved in politics from a young age – at just 16, he became secretary of the Students Society of Gjirokastër, an anti-monarchist movement. A highly capable student, he won a scholarship to further his studies in France, where he spent the early 1930s. There he found an active communist movement, and started to immerse himself in communist activity and Marxist literature, reading such works as Marx’s Capital and Engels’ Anti-Dühring.

Hoxha returned to Albania in 1936, becoming a school teacher. He was dismissed from his post when, following the Italian invasion of 1939, he refused to join the Albanian Fascist Party. Driven underground, he became actively involved in the communist movement, and, at the founding conference of the Communist Party of Albania (later renamed the Albanian Party of Labour) on 8 November 1941, he was chosen as a Central Committee member.

In the remaining years of the second world war, Hoxha emerged as a most able and inspiring party member, working tirelessly all over the country. He played a crucial role in organising the armed struggle of the united front against fascism, leading the Army of National Liberation. He was also the main inspirer of the new forms of underground popular power that were emerging – the National Councils of Liberation. In March 1943, Hoxha was named First Secretary of the Communist Party.

After the partisans forced the withdrawal of German troops in November 1944, Enver Hoxha became head of government of Albania. In March 1946, the Constituent Assembly proclaimed the birth of the People’s Republic of Albania, and nominated Hoxha as its prime minister.

Study Guide: Ideological Struggle Against Revisionism

This a section of M-L Study Guide. The other sections are found here: https://marxistleninist.wordpress.com/study-guide/

“It cannot be disputed that these arguments of the revisionists amounted to a fairly well-balanced system of views, namely, the old and well-known liberal-bourgeois views.” – V. I. Lenin, “Marxism and Revisionism”

Beginning and Essential readings

• The Right Danger in the C.P.S.U.(B.) by J. V. Stalin
• On Khrushchov’s Phoney Communism and Its Historical Lessons for the World by Mao Zedong
• The Degeneration of the CPUSA in the 1950s by Harry Haywood
• Looking back at Tiananmen Square: Continuing the Revolution is Not a Dinner Party by Mick Kelly of FRSO
• Balance of the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Ludo Martens
• Reaffirm our Basic Principles and Carry the Revolution Forward by the Communist Party of the Philippines

Supplemental readings

• Marxism and Revisionism by V.I. Lenin
• The Proletarian Revolution And the Renegade Kautsky by V. I. Lenin
• “Left-wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder by V. I. Lenin
• Struggle of the Bolsheviks Against the Liquidators and Otzovists from the History of the CPSU – Short Course
• The Fight Against Right and “Ultra-Left” Deviations by J.V. Stalin
• Bukharin’s Group and the Right Deviation in Our Party by J.V. Stalin
• The Right Deviation in the C.P.S.U.(B.) by J. V. Stalin
• Marxism versus Liberalism by J.V. Stalin
• On the Question of Revisionism by W.Z. Foster
• Combat Liberalism by Mao Zedong
• On Correcting Mistaken Ideas in the Party by Mao Zedong
• Long Live Leninism! by the CP of China
• Leninism and Modern Revisionism by the CP of China
• A Proposal Concerning the General Line of the International Communist Movement by the CP of China
• On the Question of Stalin by the CP of China
• Peaceful Coexistence — Two Diametrically Opposed Policies by CP of China
• The Leaders of the CPSU are the Greatest Splitters of Our Times by the CP of China
• The Proletarian Revolution and Khrushchov’s Revisionism by the CP of China
• Reject the Revisionist Theses of the XX Congress of the CPSU by Enver Hoxha
• The Khruschevites by Enver Hoxha
• Eurocommunism is Anti-Communism by Enver Hoxha
• The Fist of the Marxist-Leninist Communists Must Also Smash Left Adventurism, the Offspring of Modern Revisionism by Enver Hoxha
• Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought as Guide to the Philippine Revolution by Armando Liwanag
• Stand for Socialism Against Modern Revisionism by Armando Liwanag
• On Certain Aspects of the Struggle Against Revisionism by Ludo Martens
• Stalin and the Question of ‘Market Socialism’ in the Soviet Union after the Second World War by Vijay Singh
• On Krushchevite Revisionism and the Collapse of the Soviet Union videos of a talk by Harpal Brar
• Proposals for the Unification of the International Communist Movement

See also: The Great Debate: Documents of the Sino-Soviet Split (at Marxists.org)