Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:45:08 -0500
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Flooding


Harry Cleaver:
>Leninism was defeated long ago. Sometimes tho, people find it amusing to
>fence with ghosts. It would also be nice to have a Fourierist butt in
>sometimes, but hey, you can't have everything.

Harry, I don't know how to tell you this but there is no such thing as
"Leninism". Lenin was a Russian revolutionary who struggled to build a
social democratic party in Russia modeled on the German party of Karl
Kautsky. After he died, a schema was created in his name that had little to
do with the party he was involved with. If the Cuban revolution had been
led by "Leninists", there would have been no revolution. BTW, I mean to ask
you. You said that there was a revolution in Cuba. Was that a slip of the
tongue? Could you explain yourself? What kind of revolution was it? I am
under the impression that when Marx spoke about revolution, he meant one
class overthrowing another. Or were you using it in the Toni Negri/Spinoza
fashion?


Louis Proyect
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