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On 2/25/18 3:16 PM, Chris Slee wrote:
Louis Proyect says I have been "seduced by Murray Bookchin's ideology". I have never read anything by Bookchin.
Ocalan is widely recognized as being a disciple of Murray Bookchin, even from afar. Your review has a section on Democratic Confederalism, which Öcalan openly admits is based on Murray Bookchin's writings.
You really have to begin engaging with Bookchin's theories if you still claim to be a Marxist. Bookchin was a fierce opponent of Marxism his entire life. Read his 1969 "Listen, Marxist!" to get an idea of where he is coming from:
All the old crap of the thirties is coming back again—the shit about the "class line," the "role of the working class," the "trained cadres," the "vanguard party," and the "proletarian dictatorship." It's all back again, and in a more vulgarized form than ever. The Progressive Labor Party is not the only example, it is merely the worst. One smells the same shit in various offshoots of SDS, and in the Marxist and Socialist clubs on campuses, not to speak of the Trotskyist groups, the International Socialist Clubs, and Youth Against War and Fascism.
That was us he was talking about, well at least me. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
