I only know about Hoxha bc like a year ago I was reading Espresso Stalinist and they mentioned Hoxha. I don’t know much about him besides that he made bunkers, liked Stalin a lot and he called people Revisionist. This gives me no actual insight into whether he had good ideas or not. I know for a fucking fact that looking him up on YT will mislead me and I’ll be left more confused than I started. What is Hoxhaism and how does it differentiate from Marxism-Leninism generally? Is it an offshoot, what are your general opinions on Hoxha and the modern Hoxha community(if there even exist more than 200 of them worldwide)
Be careful, you might force a certain Hoxhaist from Wisconsin to go THERMONUCLEAR if you ask too many questions
A good place to start if you haven’t already is ProleWiki https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Enver_Hoxha https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/People’s_Socialist_Republic_of_Albania_(1946–1992) https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Party_of_Labour_of_Albania https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Hoxhaism
For videos, there is a documentary titled “40 years of Socialist Albania” https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=NHBR8aJPkU4
If you are looking for more in depth reading, such as books on Albania, there are plenty of those as well!
Thanks, I actually never check prolewiki very often but I may start, the info is separated well, I like the format
The only book I’ve seen recommended on the subject is hammer and hoe.
I’ve not read these myself, so I have no idea how good these books are and apologize if they aren’t the best, but here are some more:
Albania Defiant by Jan Myrdal and Gun Kessle https://annas-archive.org/md5/ce8cf6cca266123cb985d7257839975e
Laying the Foundations of the New Albania by Enver Hoxha http://www.enverhoxha.ru/Archive_of_books/English/enver_hoxha_laying_the_foundations_of_the_new_albania_eng.pdf
The Anglo-American Threat to Albania by Enver Hoxha https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/ebooks/the_anglo-american_threat_to_albania.pdf
Portrait of Albania https://www.bannedthought.net/Albania/General/PortraitOfAlbania-c.1982-OCR.pdf
The History of Albania (A Brief Survey) by Kristo Frasheri https://annas-archive.org/md5/2cb1033da9ec4bcf9277fa6e8804916c
The History of the Socialist Construction of Albania (1944-1975) https://annas-archive.org/md5/fb7fddcb7b681cb79019dc415db5f679
Albania Challenges Khrushchev Revisionism by Enver Hoxha https://annas-archive.org/md5/bcfca2fe6384861b9ea6479b5cbb7fb6
Scientific Conference on the Marxist-Leninist Theoretical Thinking of the Party of Labour of Albania and Comrade Enver Hoxha https://annas-archive.org/md5/2d3bf4273f2435d183a46614c0860692
A History of Albanian Literature by Koço Bihiku https://annas-archive.org/md5/73a0b574f2fa39b348c5f99c4da6c956
The People’s Revolution in Albania and the Question of State Power https://annas-archive.org/md5/d0a20355d6083e81d4c249ecc6874c77
Socialist Albania Will Never Budge From Its Revolutionary Positions by Mehmet Shehu https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/albania/albania-26.pdf
Added to the never-ending leftist book list😂, all jokes aside I will try finishing this one after I finish Caliban and the Witch
Yeah, I have an extremely long list too. Hundreds of books on my list while I only read a couple per month
Ultra-orthodox Marxist-Leninist. Pro-Stalin and anti-Khrushchev but tended to be quite dogmatic and couldn’t see the bigger picture when it comes to China. Ended up behaving quite badly toward the PRC even though Albania received a ton of help from China at a time when China itself struggled and didn’t have very much. Also like all Balkan leaders his relationship with other Balkan states was unnecessarily hostile, particularly Yugoslavia (though to be fair Tito definitely had issues and was also a bad neighbor).
There is no serious “modern Hoxha community”. For all intents and purposes it is a non-existent movement irl, and people who identify as Hoxhaists really only exist online. I’m not even sure there is still a Hoxhaist community of any significant size left in Albania itself.
The problem with niche tendencies like this is that they just get adopted by people looking for an identity, there is no actual political mass or a real world movement behind it like there is with Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, etc.
Even Trotkyism is more relevant, if for no other reason than that it is promoted by feds as the “tolerated” strain of communism since it is imperialism compatible and is can be used to infect leftist spaces with anti-AES dogma.
This video goes over some of the main points (both good and bad): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THxONk4fnD4
Some people are criticizing it in the comments, but I think it’s still a valuable overview.A YouTube link was detected in your comment. Here are links to the same video on Invidious, which is a YouTube frontend that protects your privacy:
