lbo-talk-digest V1 #5003

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Oct 9 07:46:02 PDT 2001


Macdonald Stainsby wrote:


>No one goes to the modern people and starts ranting on about Lenin
>and the need
>to study, say, Imperialism... and garners any relevance. What's
>relevant is the
>strategic orientation- the tactical use of anything and everything to make a
>quick spine-snapping action.

Oddly homicidal language here.


> Meaning that our orientation is far less concerned
>with appearances than it is results.

Right. And several people at Zizek's Esssen conference on Lenin said that Leninism was about "concrete analysis of the concrete situation." What is specifically Leninist about this, or giving priority to results over appearances?

Doug



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