>>> "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/17/00 05:25PM >>>
Jim,
Hi. I'm back, at least for a few weeks.
Guess I'll side with Brad D. on this one, although only
slightly. I agree that the first Marx is clearly the dominant
one in most of his writings, the one for free development of
people. But he did at certain points issue some rather
sulphurous diatribes about the wretchedness of bourgeois
democracy and also painted a not so nice picture of the
dictatorship of the proletariat as well in certain passages,
these getting picked up by good old Lenin to justify some
of his more unpleasant Bolshevik excesses (See _The
State and Revolution_ for example).
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CB: Bien venue back Comrade Barkley. What's your theory of democracy ( that's better
than Marx's, young or old) ?
The place to find the most heated of these is in Marx's
writings on the Paris Commune in its aftermath. I think that
it is worth keeping in mind that his own daughter and son-in-
law were gunned down at le mur des Communards in the Pere
Lachaise cemetary at the end of that sad episode, just across
from where all les grands fromages of the French Communist
Party are buried with their exaggerated socialist realist sculptures
that are not nearly as cool as what one finds at the graves of
Edith Piaf, Oscar Wilde, the lamentable Jim Morrison, or even
Pere Abelard....
Barkley Rosser
Professor of Economics
MSC 0204
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA 22807 USA
tel: 540-568-3212
fax: 540-568-3010
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
website: http://cob.jmu.edu/rosserjb
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