Chris Burford : >The Leninist position is arguably that imperialism must be actively >defeated politically and that may involve various class alliances, >compromises, and stages on the way. Luxemburg anticipated in her >own words "the rebellion of the international proletariat against the >domination of >the capitalists" . The choice she posed of socialism or >barbarism also >seems to me to smack of fatalism.
Luxemburg's thought had limitations, no doubt. But what remains of "Leninism"? "Leninism" is a spent force today (in Asia, if not elsewhere). Ulhas