On 8/22/15 12:42 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Debating Stalin/Trotsky et al is about as interesting and less relevant than > exploring the combat of Guelphs & Ghibellines (spelling?).. > > Carrol
Except that the debate is not about Stalin and Trotsky. Instead it is about determining what Lenin thought the character of the Russian Revolution would be. Lars Lih's analysis was confused to put it charitably. He, like many Lenin worshippers, believed that the formula "revolutionary dictatorship of the working class and the peasants" was algebraic--that it could include the possibility of a socialist revolution. However, there are many references in Lenin's writings that it would be a bourgeois-democratic revolution but different than the one that took place in Western Europe insofar as the government would be led by workers and peasants rather than the bourgeoisie. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
