From: "Rosser Jr, John Barkley" <rosserjb-AT-jmu.edu>
Subject: M-I: Boshevism and democracy
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 12:54:31 -0400 ()


     I have found Louis Proyect's discussion of Zinoviev's 
role in the Comintern most enlightening.  It would appear 
that he is on to something in arguing that the Bolshevik 
Party under Lenin operated with a great deal more of 
internal democracy than was the case later under the 
Comintern and its successors.
     I now throw out the question:  How far did this 
democracy go and how far should it go?  After all, Lenin 
shut down the Duma elected shortly after the Bolshevik 
Revolution when the election produced a dominance by the 
SRs.
Barkley Rosser

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