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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




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