Ludo Martens

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In 1968, Martens founded the group Alle macht aan de arbeiders (All Power to the Workers), which became the Workers' Party of Belgium in 1979. He served as president of the Workers' Party until 2008. Martens was the last foreigner to meet North Korean president Kim Il Sung before his death on 8 July 1994. According to a press release by the Workers' Party, Martens died on the morning of 5 June 2011 after a long illness.<ref>"En mémoire de Ludo Martens (1946-2011)". Template:Webarchive. Workers' Party of Belgium (in French). 6 June 2011. Retrieved 13 August 2021.</ref>

Biography

Martens was born in 1946, as the eldest son of a furniture manufacturer.<ref name="Brar" /> He grew up in Wingene, West Flanders, Belgium. While at school, he showed talent in linguistics and became a newspaper editor. He also had an interest in music and poetry. In 1965, Ludo entered the Louvain University to study medicine and during that time he became active in the Katholiek Vlaams Hoogstudentenverbond.<ref name="Brar" /> Ludo got expelled from his university after writing an article about pedophilia within the church on Our Life, the magazine which he ran in the university. He was influenced by the student movements in 1968. Having visited Berlin, where he came into contact with Marxist–Leninist German students, he introduced the thought of Marxism into the Belgian student movement.<ref name="Brar" /> In 1971, Ludo founded the Alle macht aan de arbeiders (AMADA) party, which renamed itself into the Workers' Party of Belgium in 1979.<ref name="Brar" /> He was the last communist leader to meet Kim Il Sung, two weeks before the latter's death. Kim told Ludo: "I think it is very good that you have written a book about Stalin. I intend to read it".<ref name="Brar" /> In 1999, Ludo requested his party to relieve him of the post of party president, a position he had held since the founding of the party, as he wished to pursue his passion for work in the Congo. The request was granted.<ref name="Brar" /> In nearly a decade, following 1999, he wrote his book on Laurent Kabila and the Congolese revolution, while at the same time helping to lay the foundations of a communist party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<ref name="Brar" /> Ludo died on the afternoon of June 5, 2011 after a long illness.<ref name="Brar" />

Another View of Stalin

In 1994, Martens published Another View of Stalin ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), a work that holds an apologetic view of collectivisation in the Soviet Union and the Great Purge under Joseph Stalin. He explained his motivation for writing the book in the introduction: "Defending Stalin's work, essentially defending Marxism–Leninism, is an important, urgent task in preparing ourselves for class struggle under the New World Order."<ref name="AnotherViewOfStalin">Martens, Ludo (1994). Another View of Stalin. Template:Webarchive. Antwerp: Éditions EPO. Complete and free PDF of the text of the book in English. Un autre regard sur Staline. Template:Webarchive. Complete and free PDF of the text of the book in the original French. Retrieved 13 August 2021.</ref> Martens referred to the notion of Stalinist crimes as a 'myth' and claimed that the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, in which the Soviet Union agreed to invade Poland in conjunction with Nazi Germany and divide Poland, Romania, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia between one another into respective "spheres of influence",<ref name="mrtext">Template:Cite journal.</ref> was "a key for victory in the anti-fascist war".<ref name="AnotherViewOfStalin" /> The leadership of the Workers' Party of Belgium, particularly president Peter Mertens in 2016, distanced from Martens' vision on Stalin, whom they call "a dictator."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Harpal Brar wrote in Martens' obituary: "His book Another view of Stalin, while nailing the bourgeois, professorial and Khrushchevite revisionist lies about Stalin, brought to the fore the brilliance of Stalin's stewardship of the CPSU(B) and the USSR, which made such a monumental contribution to the march forward of the Soviet people and humanity at large".<ref name="Brar">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Works

  • Pierre Mulele, ou, La seconde vie de Patrice Lumumba (Antwerp: Éditions EPO, 1985). Template:OCLC.
  • Sankara, Compaoré, et la révolution burkinabé (EPO, 1989). Template:ISBN.
  • Abo: une femme du Congo (EPO, 1992). Template:ISBN.
  • L'U.R.S.S. et la contre-révolution de velours (USSR: The Velvet Counter Revolution) (EPO, 1991). Template:ISBN.
  • Un autre regard sur Staline (Another View of Stalin) (EPO, 1994). Template:ISBN.
  • Kabila et la révolution congolaise: panafricanisme ou néocolonialisme? (EPO, 2002). Template:ISBN.

See also

References

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  • "Another View of Stalin". Complete and free PDF-download of the text of the book in English. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
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