Waistline2: CB: How was the concept of antagonism deployed by the Marxists and communists of the period of the Third International ?
How was "antagonism" employed by the CPC during the period of the Sino-Soviet split ? WL: See Textbook of Marxist Philosophy 1939 for the theoretical exposition. Perhaps a month ago I wrote in detail about this. Also wrote about this on Marxmail about 4 years ago. ^^^^^ CB: I don't have those. How about a shorter exposition here. ^^^ WL: In terms of the CPC and Chairman Mao, see his On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People. ^^^^ CB: What's your summary outline ? ^^^^^ WL: Here is a question for you. How to you articlate Marx conception of antagonism? Why did you delete Marx and Engels concept of society moving in class antagonism from the quote in the Communist Manifesto? ^^^^^ CB: Can't say that I did delete it, as I don't know what you are referring to in their text. Copy it here. ^^^^ You raise several other question which I will answer in detail and have in fact answered already in the course of this discussion. ^^^^ CB: Just recopy here where you addressed them. Label them by the question. ^^^^^ First let you answer some questions for a change. Let's start at the two above. 1. I answer questions all the time. How to you articlate Marx conception of antagonism? ^^^^^ CB: I pretty much follow Marx, Engels and Lenin's discussions of class struggle, as in _The Manifesto of the Communist Party_ and other wellknown discussions of class antagonism, irreconcilable class antagonisms , etc. ?, the struggle between exploiting and exploited classes. See this , for example The State and Revolution - Chapter 1 "Because the state arose from the need to hold class antagonisms in ... 404 of this volume, Lenin is quoting from the same work by Engels (op. cit., p. ... www.marxists.org/archive/ lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch01.htm - 47k - ^^^^^ 2. Why did you delete Marx and Engels concept of society moving in class antagonism from the quote in the Communist Manifesto? ^^^^^ CB: I didn't delete it. I just didn't copy the whole Manifesto. Copy what you are referring to. I don't recognize the phrase "society moving in class antagonism" , but maybe ...where is it in the Manifesto ? ****************************** _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
