Euro-ka!

[Chris Burford]

At 19:36 04/01/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Chris Buford:
>>What has happened now that makes it serious to argue that capitalism has
>>brought the prospect of peace to western Europe? It is that monopoly
>>capitalism has become transnational capitalism. It has gone far beyond the
>>bounds of a single national state. 
>
>Have you been dipping into Kautsky again, you naughty boy?

Note the unprincipled shifting of ground without self-criticism. No comment
on the issue of capitalism and peace, but a provocative move onto new
territory. When it all becomes too complicated LP will be happy to call for
boycotts and exclusions of those he cannot argue with. 

I wonder if we can catch him with a formula. It is an important theme of
the marxist response to globalisation. I wonder if he  could demonstrate
with direct references, that Lenin's criticism of Kautsky on this point, is
what he lazily assumes it to be. Or has LP himself just been indulging in
dilettante dipping?

Chris Burford

London