A friend of mine who is currently in India has sent the following request concerning a quote from Lenin. Can anyone here help him out? Jim Farmelant ____________ "For now I send a request of my own. This week I spent a day at the Delhi School of Economics as a follow-up to the lecture there last week. During lunch in the chairman's office and for an hour or so afterwards, we had in effect an curious kind of seminar, i.e. with one student (me) and five professors. One of them is a top Indian student of Samuelson. I said to him: "I've been told that in his Nobel-Prize acceptance speech Samuelson compared his work in economics explicitly with Newton's in physics, but Prof. X tells me that Samuelson's psychology is mere common-sense psychology, not based on any highly elaborated would-be scientific school of psychology; so I consider Samuelson less intelligent than Alfred Marshall, who at least had the insight to say that 'every change in social conditions is likely to require a new development of economic doctrines.' What do you think of this criticism?" This set him back and he hemmed and hawed uncomfortably for a while, but then, after admitting that Samuelson was vulnerable on this score, came up with some suggestions as to where I might look to find him admitting that his models were inapplicable e.g. to Soviet Russia. This was all very courteous and collegial, and then just as were all taking leave of each other, he asked if I could help him with a bibliographic problem. Lenin is said to have written - somewhere - about the question of when (i.e. under which circumstances) it would or would not be a good idea for workers to go on strike. But my friend the student of Samuelson hasn't been able to find the passage (or essay) in the collected works of Lenin. I told him I don't know but I have a Marxist friend in the USA who is good at solving this kind of problem and I would pass ask him to send me the information. Can you do this? " ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
