Anarchism vs. Marxism-Leninism

Sam Pawlett rsp at uniserve.com
Fri Dec 10 10:53:28 PST 1999


t byfield wrote:
>
> i wouldn't know a Proyectite if it hit me in the ass with a
> banjo but when people start (a) challenging statements like
> 'human will was crushed in the USSR' with glib retorts like
> 'where? when?'

Since you are the smart one here, what are the answers? Where did Lenin say the "socialism is nothing but state capitalism"? Or does that completely miss the emancipatory impulse of diacritic logic?

*and then without stopping to take a breath*
> (b) flatfootedly opining that 'human creativity flowered in
> the USSR'...
>
> human creativity flowered in the USSR?

Sorry, flourished. Anyone can be a smart ass.

tbyfield:
> i think it's safe to say that--without 'defending' or
> 'rehabilitating' HUAC, or lending any moral authority
> to the US's ever-more tenuous and impracticable activ-
> ities in iraq--that your analogy is deeply silly.
>

Its only safe to say if you say so. What is monologic?

Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Bloomed, positively bloomed! I'm getting misty-eyed with nostalgia
> for the Brezhnev years in fact. How can you be so hard-hearted, Ted?
>

What did the land of freedom the USA produce in cultural 'capital' during the same period?

s



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