I found the passage from Stephanie Koontz describing the meanness of 19th
century Lakota society posted on the Marxism-International mailing-list
most interesting. Stephanie was in the SWP around the same time as me, but
I never got to know her that well. She was very close intellectually and
poli
Louis Proyect wrote:
> From the pen of one of its most sophisticated thinkers--Leon Trotsky--we
> discover that capitalism is a
> "straight-jacket on the means of production" and socialism will remove it.
> What a telling analogy! A straight-jacket is used to restrain a violent,
> insane perso
