Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:25:40 EDT From: Dddddd0814 at aol.com Subject: Lenin on character of Soviet state
from "Left-Wing" Childishness and the Petty-Bourgeois Mentality, April 1918 http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/may/09.htm our â€*Left Communists†, who in words (and of course in their deepest convictions) are merciless enemies of the petty bourgeoisie, while in deeds they help only the petty bourgeoisie, serve only this section of the population and express only its point of view by fightingâ€"in April 1918!!â€"against . . . â€*state capitalism †. They are wide of the mark!
Yep here you have the 'best' of Cde Lenin in a nutshell. State capitalism will somehow lead to socialism. This is how the counter-revolution was able to present itself as the revolution, by this sort of decree. But we can at least agree that Lenin sincerely believed this (in his deepest convictions!). The fact that this theory has been proved false time and again does not seem to bother the dogmatists who are still prepared to assert it with all the confidence of blind faith in the words of the prophet of old, still prepared to smear anyone who does not share their rightwing perspective in the same old way.
I wonder if anyone knows BTW when the theory of state capitalism as transition to socialism was first articulated and what justifications, if any, were found in Marx (or perhaps Engels) for this?
Tahir