Jim F.
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:57:47 -0500 Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes:
>
>
> Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> >
> > Actually many of the people who talk about Z & F - e.g., on this
> list
> > - have no problem with a little "violence." Z himself partly
> explains
> > his interest in Lenin by saying that in politics sometimes you
> have
> > to shoot people.
> >
>
> I haven't been following this thread -- but I would take it as a
> given,
> not needing much theoretical defense, that sometimes you have to
> shoot
> people -- though I don't see how one needs to be a Leninist to hold
> that
> position, nor do I see how Lenin's politics particularly depend on
> it
> any more than any other rational politics does. Lenin, along with
> almost
> all Marxists, did disapprove of individualist terrorism. I once
> heard an
> anecdote, perhaps apocryphal, that when the Grand Duke was
> assassinated
> Lenin exclaimed "Good Show," then sat down to write an article
> attacking
> terrorism. Probably that would have been my reaction if someone had
> shot
> Clinton during the war to partition Yugoslavia or Bush during the
> invasion of Iraq.
>
> Carrol
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