Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:03:08 -0500
From: Jim Fleming <jim-AT-autonomedia.org>
Subject: Re: AUT: Flooding


For Great Man theorists, "isms" are characterological. Leninists and 
lawyers, as classes, learn to value the club of language. Jim


>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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