Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:42:55 +0100
From: PSEUDONYM-AT-pseud.pseud
Subject: M-INTRO: Re: Plekhanov




Thanks Barry,

Yours is the only reply. If you do have the time I would like the
reference. However I expect it will be in the Marx Memorial Library in
London (where I live)?

Gerry

In message <5F038C60EB0-AT-HUMSCF1S.CF.AC.UK>, BARRY WILKINS
<WilkinsB-AT-cardiff.ac.uk> writes
>Dear Gerry,
>
>I have only just seen your post. Did anybody send the reference to 
>you? I have at home a 5-volume work of Plekhanov's Philosophical 
>Works, published in English by Progress, but probably long out of 
>print. There's a reasonable chance that what you're looking for is in 
>there somewhere, so I'll check if you would like me to.
>
>However, if somebody has supplied you with the reference by now, 
>could you let me have it too, please?
>
>best wishes,
>
>Barry Wilkins
>
>
>
>Barry Wilkins 
>Philosophy Section 
>School of English, Communication and Philosophy
>University of Wales
>PO Box 94
>Cardiff CF1 3XB                      Tel   01222-874025
>UK                                   Fax   01222-874618
 Original message:
JP Cannon, in his book The History of American Trotskyism, at the end of
the second paragraph of lecture 7 entitled The Turn to Mass Work wrote: 

‘In the terminology of the Marxist movement, as it was defined most
precisely by Plekhanov, agitation and propaganda are two distinct forms
of activity. Propaganda he defined as the dissemination of many
fundamental ideas to a few people; what we perhaps in America are
accustomed to call education. Agitation he defined as the dissemination
of a few ideas, or only one idea, to many people. Propaganda is directed
toward the vanguard; agitation toward the masses.’

p. 118 1979 Pathfinder edition.

Can anyone tell me where I might get Plekhanov's original piece on this
subject? Might it be on the net somewhere or could someone send me it on
e-mail?

  



-- 
Gerry Downing


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