euro and kautskyism

[Chris Burford]

At 09:42 08/01/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Chris,
> 
>I don't know whether you recall, but
>on the other list I have been mentioning
>for a while what you say below, that is, in
>a sense we are in Kautsky's ultra-imperialism.
>Lenin's famous critique of Kautsky was not
>so much that imperialism couldn't develop to
>a different level of transnational consolidation,
>but that such would not "automatically" evolve
>into socialism and world peace, as you mention
>below.
>
>I'm not sure what it does for us to know this.
>What is still necessary for socialism is
>for the overwhelming masses of people,
>the working class, to self-organize and
>take state power; and over a period
>of time to abolish private property in
>the basic means of production.

Thanks. I had missed those posts. 

Chris Burford

London