File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9710, message 98


Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 18:48:01 -0500
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-I: L PROYECT: REVISIONISM, SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND MENSHIVISM


Louis R Godena wrote:

> b) the degeneration of Communist
>parties into their opposites is an idea that cannot be so easily dismissed
>in the light of current realities

I think I'm going over my quota, but I won't post tomorrow in recompense.

This point (b) is rich indeed. No one who ever lived did more to equate
socialism, especially in its Marxian variant, with fascism than did
Adolfo's hero, Comrade Stalin. Death camps, secret police, purges, mass
murder, all of it - what a lot of horrible crimes for Marxism to live down.
And here's Adolfo now maligning the largely admirable Cuban regime. It's
really too much to take. Louis, you're too smart for this - what is his
hold over you?

Doug





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