Lenin in Essen

[Carl Remick]

>Does it mean anything to be a Leninist in 2001?
>Doug Henwood ...
>
>Lenin also said that
>company accounts were getting incrasingly murky, in order to hide all
>kinds of self-dealing and other financial chicanery. While there are
>some exceptions, this is hardly an accurate description of the
>present, when "transparency" is all the rage.

I think *you're* out of sync with current reality here, Doug.  Off the top 
of my head, I can cite Xerox, Lucent, Cendant, Rite Aid, and Cisco as 
examples of major companies that have had either huge accounting scandals of 
late -- long undiscovered by supposedly crack auditors -- or grave 
suspicions concerning their bookkeeping.  This vaunted "transparency" is 
just so much, ah, PR puffery.

Carl
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