slogans

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jan 30 09:09:32 PST 2002


Carrol Cox wrote:


>Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>> Carrol Cox wrote:
>>
>> >Lenin says somewhere that anarchism is the penalty the working class
>> >pays for its sins of opportunism.
>>
>> So Lenin said that. That makes it true? You have a habit of quoting
>> him and Mao as if they were scripture.
>>
>
>Does it make it false?

Nope. But it's not enough to invoke it - either as scripture, or with the rhetorical authority of a good aphorism. What's the connection between opportunism and anarchism? How's it relevant today?

Doug



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