I am not a marxist

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Fri Oct 27 00:03:35 PDT 2000


kelley>anyone wanna give a rif on this if they know the answer?

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Reese wrote:


> A book by Lenin, someone disavowed by Marx,
(I think Reese was getting at the Paris Commune issue)

It would be VERY interesting, however, to know what early non Russian (French and German) Marxists thought of Lenin, if there is any literature on this?

About ten years ago in a study group, we read one of Neil Harding's books on Leninism. Stylistically I found it tedious. Others might not. Any comments on Harding from our house Leninists, Charles or Carrol? http://www.swan.ac.uk/poli/staff/staffnew.htm

Harding, Neil M.A. (Wales), M.Sc. (Econ) (London). Professor and Head of Department. Professor Harding has been teaching in the Department since 1965. His research interests are in socialist thought, Marxism, Leninism and Russian and Soviet political thought on which themes he has published widely. In recent times he has been concerned with legitimation theory and is currently working on a theoretical account of the rise and fall of the Soviet State. Among his principal publications are the two volume Lenin's Political Thought (1977 and 1981, for which he was awarded the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize 1981-2); and Leninism (1996). He has edited Marxism in Russia (1983, translated by Richard Taylor) and The State in Socialist Society (1984). Professor Harding teaches Soviet government and politics, European socialist thought and Modern Ideologies.

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And on Marxism, more generally, I keep on meaning on buying this work publuished by Stanford Univ. Press. "Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia, " by Andrzej Walicki.

Michael Pugliese



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