Lenin in Essen

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Feb 12 06:17:28 PST 2001


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>Well, Lenin wasn't such a simpleton.

No, he wasn't a simpleton, unlike many of today's Leninists. But he wrote Imperialism at a time when it looked like the German model of state-sponsored, bank-run cartels were the wave of the future. They weren't. Why use "monopoly" as a synonym for "big business"? There's a world of difference, which is obscured by the terminology.

Doug



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