Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 08:51:28 +0100 From: Hugh Rodwell <m-14970-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se> Subject: M-TH: Some fell on barren ground... Carrol writes: >Hugh: As Doug mentioned recently, you must be an intelligent fellow. Can't >you look in a mirror and see the huge grotesqueness of "just read The >State and Revolution..."? What's all this intelligence crap -- some freemason's handshake for admission to New Left discussions? Sounds more like "really one of us BUT STOP ROCKING THE BOAT". Can't be "here, let's help you on board", cos they'd let a poor boy drown as soon as look at him. The identity politics of neo-Stalinist consensus are popular frontist to the core. That's why I don't need a mirror for dealing with Lenin. When I say "just read The State and Revolution", I mean just that, for the subscribers of this list and anyone else willing to listen who considers themselves Marxist. I'm not speaking to the masses of the world directly. Given the anti-revolutionary, anti-Leninist scepticism of many subscribers of this list in relation to the revolutionary character of the working class and the necessity of a vanguard Bolshevik party to lead the working class to a victorious socialist revolution against imperialism, it could well be thought "grotesque" to hope for any sensible response to urging them to take The State and Revolution seriously. But political and historical truths are not like bread, they don't grow stale once they're out of the oven -- they're more like plants that put down roots and grow stronger. Was this what Carrol meant when he mentioned ecology?? Cheers, Hugh --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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