<waistli...@aol.com> wrote: > 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?"
^^^^^ CB: Because I'm talking about working class democratic majorities using the bourgeois-democratic electoral/mass sufferage system ^^^^^^^^ 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, ^^^^^ CB: I call it working class revolution on this list. ^^^^^^^ and why would one criticize any struggle against the > ravages of capital? > > WL. ^^^^^^^ CB: Not criticize the struggles. Criticize my reference to a book analyzing another concrete situation in which Lenin was encouraging the Russian masses not to wait for an electoral victory. > > >> 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.<< > > > _______________________________________________ > Marxism-Thaxis mailing list > Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu > To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis > _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
