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Apologies if this is "old news".... Always interested in what people on the two lists (Marxism & LBO) think about some of the things I am reading. In this article, which was written close to the end of the cold war, Noam Chomsky argues against the association of socialism with Bolshevism. "When the world’s two great propaganda systems agree on some doctrine, it requires some intellectual effort to escape its shackles. One such doctrine is that the society created by Lenin and Trotsky and molded further by Stalin and his successors has some relation to socialism in some meaningful or historically accurate sense of this concept. In fact, if there is a relation, it is the relation of contradiction." Source: http://liberationfrequency.tumblr.com/post/5069389451/the-soviet-union-versus-socialism-noam-chomsky Ismail Lagardien Department of Politics and Public Administration Elon University Elon, NC 27244 Tel: +1(612) 227-5037 (Personal) ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
