Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 07:38:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: Lenin in context


On Thu, 26 Dec 1996 dr.bedggood-AT-auckland.ac.nz wrote:

> 
> Allright this is a serious attempt to explain your politics. Sorry I 
> missed it first time. That was probably when you were gunning for 
> Maleki and I wrote you off as a NY `lunchtime' revolutionary. 
> such struggles and seek to organise and arm the workers independently.  

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> 
> You raise Peru.  Bolsheviks give unconditional support to the 
> Degenerated Workers States without any political support of the Stalinist 
> bureacracy including that of Mao. Maoists are mensheviks too. They 


Louis: I see that you couldn't wait for the remainder of my posts to jump
right in and reply. You say, "I raise Peru". This indicates to me that you
are not a serious revolutionary scholar. I simply said that a vanguard
party would show solidarity with the efforts of the *most* oppressed group
in Latin America--the aboriginal people of Peru--to throw off a racist and
economically exploitative yoke. You spot the word "Peru" and go off on a
tangent. Why didn't you belabor Lenin when he showed solidarity with a
bourgeois elected official in "What is to be Done"? The trouble with
Trotskyists, sadly including you, is that their brain is on automatic
pilot.

Meanwhile, I will continue posting the remainder of the articles.




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