At 14:24 31/10/2006, Charles wrote:
Yes, you help Lou Pro out there. He referred Yoshie to _The Civil War in
France_ ,but it's Engels elsewhere ,not Marx in _The Civil War in France_
who says the Commune was the dictatorship of the proletariat.
So, was the Soviet gulag an example of an aspect of a dictatorship of the
proletariat or not ( imperfect no doubt), in your opinion ? "Dictatorship"
seems to imply socialist state repression of reactionary forces of a
society. How does a socialist state deal with the mass of people who ,
really through no fault of their own ,just continue to think and act as they
have been raised in the old society, as in Russia where there were millions
with "feudalistic" ideas still after the insurrection of 1917 ? I'm not
Charles,
With friends like you, who needs enemies? If you want to
know what Marx meant and what the phrase implied for Marx (which I
thought was the point), the best exposition is by Hal Draper and you
can go to Marxmyths to read all you need to know on the subject:
http://marxmyths.org/hal-draper/article2.htm.
cheers,
michael
saying it's a happy thing.
Michael A. Lebowitz
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Simon Fraser University
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