<HTML> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">That's about it. Your post reveals the voluntarism of much political thought that can't learn from Lenin. You are demanding that we claim prophetic rather than analytic power. Those conditions are not only unspecified, they are in material reality _at this time_ unspecifiable. The analogue for claiming otherwise are those ads for Free Psychic Readings in the back of _TV Guide_. I think Marxists should exercise a minimal honesty in their claims of what they know. Carrol</BLOCKQUOTE> So Leninism consists of sitting back and waiting [or, at best, preparing the revolutionary vanguard] for the "revolutionary moment" to appear. And political inteventions in the here and now constitutes voluntarism. Do you think Yoshie could make an equation out of this? Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869) Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass -- </HTML>