Remedial Class Struggle

[Charles Brown]

The Leninism I learned was the opposite of this. Aggravating the contradictions is considered ultra-leftist. In What is to be Done, Lenin discusses the relationship between reform and revolution. Reforms are to be struggled for in a revolutionary manner, i.e. in a way that will reveal the need to go further. However, there is to be a genuine effort to WIN reforms to relieve suffering of working people. 

Lenin may discuss this issue in _Leftwing Communism, an Infantile Disorder_, as the worse the better is an ultra-leftist concept.

Charles Brown


>>> <Dhlazare at aol.com> 06/02 7:31 AM >>>
In a message dated 98-06-01 20:10:34 EDT, you write:

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 Or as Vladimir Lenin used to say, "the worse, the better."

 

 Never struck me as one of Lenin's brighter lights on humanity's tree of

 good ideas...

 

 Brad DeLong

 

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Do you have a source handy?
Dan Lazare