Democratization of Socio-Economic Life

Speeches of Ramiz Alia at the 8th through 12th Plenums of the 9th CC of the PLA. The November 8th Publishing House has decided to publish these works not in approval, but simply because of a belief that the events surrounding the fall of socialism in Albania should be better understood by the modern Marxist-Leninists. The best way to gain an understanding, due to a lack of sources and analyses on this topic, is to visit the speeches of the architect behind the...
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Speeches of Ramiz Alia at the 8th through 12th Plenums of the 9th CC of the PLA.

The November 8th Publishing House has decided to publish these works not in approval, but simply because of a belief that the events surrounding the fall of socialism in Albania should be better understood by the modern Marxist-Leninists. The best way to gain an understanding, due to a lack of sources and analyses on this topic, is to visit the speeches of the architect behind the democratization of socio-economic life, which was a response to the external situation of counter-revolution. It is the opinion of the publisher that certain aspects of it, such as the self-financing of enterprises, contributed to the downfall of Albania, but that other aspects of it, such as allowing the masses to more freely criticize bureaucratism, were correct measures, the need of which was outlined by Comrade Enver Hoxha many years before these events.

By reading these texts, the reader will be able to obtain a profound understanding of the degeneration of Albanian socialism in general and Ramiz Alia, one of Comrade Enver Hoxha's closest collaborators, in particular. Only by learning the mistakes of the past can we march forward to a triumphant victory in the future. How we can further protect and consolidate socialism through different time periods, through a general ebb in the world communist movement, through a wide-spread counter-revolution, is a difficult question, which unfortunately Albania did not make it through. However, we can study what they attempted to do in order to save socialism and what went wrong. Therein lies the purpose of publishing this series of texts.