I wrote:
>BTW, a friend (an expert on Soviet agriculture and politics) who spent a
>year in the USSR in 1977 or so reported that Soviet academics were
>expected to quote from Lenin in all articles (including articles on soil
>chemistry). But they weren't supposed to quote from THE STATE AND
>R
>>> Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/11/00 12:15PM >>>
I wrote:
>BTW, a friend (an expert on Soviet agriculture and politics) who spent a
>year in the USSR in 1977 or so reported that Soviet academics were
>expected to quote from Lenin in all articles (including articles on soil
>chemistry).
I wrote:
> >I don't think the issue of democracy should be separated from the class
> >nature of the state. At least as I understand Marx, he believed that the
> >proletariat would be a different kind of ruling class than previous ruling
> >classes, that its rule would have to be democratic.
Loui
Jim Devine wrote:
> >I don't think the issue of democracy should be separated from the class
> >nature of the state. At least as I understand Marx, he believed that the
> >proletariat would be a different kind of ruling class than previous ruling
> >classes, that its rule would have to be democr
Regardless of how the USSR perceived Lenin's texts in 1977, _State and
Revolution_ including _What is to be Done_ were written particulary
_against_ anarchism, secterianism and vulgar economism so typical
of Russian politics at the turn of the century.
Mine
>>> Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I did *not* misunderstand what you wrote. You just threw ideas without
explaining them. that is why, your post is open to misinterpretation. I
would like to see the quotes to know how Marx "anticipates"
Stalinism...as a person partially trained in economic history, it seems
to me a very "ahistori
>... The argument that Marx anticipated Stalinism is completely a
>historical statement, made out of context, which pays attention to "ideas"
>rather than to circumstances of Stalin's Russia. Projecting Marx onto
>Stalin or vice versa is an idealist reading of
>history. Ideas should be judged
At 09:40 PM 5/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I did *not* misunderstand what you wrote. You just threw ideas without
>explaining them. that is why, your post is open to misinterpretation. I
>would like to see the quotes to know how Marx "anticipates" Stalinism...as
>a person partially trained in econ
