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Kaderprosjektet is an independent research project on the Norwegian marxist-leninist movement. The project is funded by Fritt Ord, Sat Sapienti, and the Norwegian Council for Culture. Within the project we interview activists, their families, friends and foes. The main focus is on Norway, but we have also gathered interviews in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. The total number of interviews is in excess of 150. These interviews will become an audio archive for future research at the Labour Union Archive and Library in Oslo. The material will also form the basis for a book which is planned for publication in 2009. The permanent members of the project are Nik Brandal, historian, and Jon Rognlien, literary critic. |
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Project Outline Within the Kaderproject, we collect Oral History about the Marxist-Leninist movement in Norway. The main source is interviews with a large number of former and current activists, but also their next of kin, political oponents and others who came in contact with the phenomenon. The participants can chose different degrees of anonymity. After finishing the project, the research material will be deposed at the Labor Union Library and Archives in Oslo. The interviews will also be edited and published in various books and scientific articles, and will be an important source for future research.
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Why - Why did anti-authoritarian rebels of the 60s, who had only recently emerged from what many regarded as the shambles of the old left, end up as followers of totalitarian ideologies in the 1970s? - Why did the multi-facetted rebellion against the bourgeois society end up in rigid cadre-based and Maoist-inspired organisations? - What was the relationship between leaders and the rank and file, the nature of authority and the inner structures? |
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We want to know more - Where have all the "little" voices gone? - Ìs it time to let the rank and file members speak? - Does the non-political aspects of the Maoist movement deserve a more prolific place in the analysis and understanding of the Marxist-Leninist phenomenon? - Can the greater History be analysed through the smaller events?
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