Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 23:47:07 +0100
From: m-14970-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Hugh Rodwell)
Subject: Re: How fascism began


Thanks for the post Rakesh.

But you write:

>The actual revolutionary movement finds theoretical expression in  Dutch
>left communist Herman Gorter, not Georges Sorel. It is unfortunate that
>Kolakowski devotes a whole chapter to the former, while ignoring (in his
>most provocative and helpful book) the contempareneous reflections on
>revolutionary tactics by Gorter and Anton Pannekoek.

Nothing "unfortunate" about it. Kolakowski is a rabid anti-communist and a
casuist in the great Jesuit tradition. Perfectly at home in Oxford and not
in the least bit interested in revolutionary socialism.

This also makes him anti-positivist, so his stuff against positivism is
interesting.

Cheers,

Hugh