Willi Dickhut

Willi Dickhut
Born	29 April, 1904
Died	8 May, 1992
Nationality	German

Willi Dickhut (1904–1992) was a German communist, metalworker, and key Marxist-Leninist theorist. Born into a working-class family, he joined the KPD in the 1920s and was active in resistance against the Nazis. He survived years in prison and concentration camps. After WWII, he resumed political work but was expelled from the KPD in 1966 for criticizing Soviet revisionism. He helped found the MLPD and was its leading theorist, advocating anti-revisionism, workers’ leadership, and independent Marxist thought.

Literature

Willi Dickhut has written many works in his life, his most important writings are:

• That's How It Was Then, from 1979

• State-Monopoly Capitalism in the FRG (Vol. 1 & 2), from 1979

• War and Peace and the Socialist Revolution, from 1983

• Lenin, the Brilliant Leader of the Proletariat, from 1984

• Correspondence on Questions of the Theory and Practice of Party Building, from 1984

• Crises and Class Struggle, from 1985

• Proletarian Resistance Against Fascism and War (Vol. 1 & 2), from 1987

• Materialist Dialectics and Bourgeois Natural Science, from 1987

• The Restoration of Capitalism in the Soviet Union, from 1988

• The Dialectical Unity of Theory and Practice, from 1988

• Trade Unions and Class Struggle, from 1988

• What Happened Next, from 1990

• Is Socialism at an End?, from 1992