Soula writes: > that democratic centralism and Hegel are simple > anomalies unrelated to his thought is rather > strange.
JKS writes:>Although I think the anti-Hegelian view is wrong it has a respectable pedigree. Althusser madea career out of arguing that MArx was no Hegelian.< methinks that the bit about Marx being anti-Hegelian and not having even read key works by Hegel was a joke, an effort to twit the Hegelian Marxists, some of whom have too great a sense of self-importance. Also, I agree with JKS that "democratic centralism" has no organic link to Marx's thought. On the left, it comes from people as Babeuf and Blanqui, from Lasalle and the German Social Democrats. In practice, "democratic centralism" is an oxymoron in many cases. Jim
