Why would Lenin chastise you for using his exact characterization of the seizure of state power by the bourgeois democratic majorities, that he described in "Imperialism?" Lenin characterized this exact same process as expressing the meaning of "semi-colony" or having not broken out of the value relations as it operates on the basis of the bourgeois property relations. No one calls the "South and Central American revolution" communists - at least on this list, and why would one criticize any struggle against the ravages of capital? WL. >> And yet, concretely, we are in many ways at an historical anti-pole with the situation in Russia in 1917. Lenin might chastise me for dogmatic reference to _The State and Revolution_ given that the South and Central American revolution has organized the working class majorities in many countries so as to use the bourgeois-democratic electoral/mass sufferage system to seize state power. The fascist/comprador bourgeois classes have had to resort to that favorite of the reaction the coup d'etat in Venezuela and Honduras. Violent overthrow is the desparate polictal location of the rich enemies of the working masses today in the South of the Western Hemisphere.<<
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