Slavoj on Lenin

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Apr 28 10:48:23 PDT 2000


Carrol Cox wrote:


>That! is Leninism????????? My Lenin is the one who (in opposition
>to Trotsky) insisted that a revolution in Russia depended on there
>being thousands more Father Gopins. That is, my Lenin is the one
>who put spontaneous action by masses of people. led mostly by
>non-marxists, at the center of all revolutionary activity. The best
>commentary on Lenin (the best guide on how to use Lenin's
>collected works) is Mao's *Report on an Investigation of the
>Peasant Movement in Hunan*.
>
>Who is your Lenin? On what works do you base your Lenin?
>It looks like Slavoj knows as little about Russian history as he
>knows about Greek Drama.
>
>Please, tell us something about him that would give us a reason
>to read him.

I see signs of a confounded paradigm.

Doug



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