Lenin on character of Soviet state

Ulhas Joglekar uvj at vsnl.com
Sat Sep 7 08:42:49 PDT 2002


Carrol Cox wrote:


> Tahir's question is childish. It also shows utter contempt for people,
> and such maliciousness certainly does not carry us closer to anything.
> It is contemputous of people because ir reduces centuries of human
> struggle and bloodshed to a schoolroom story problem in arithmetic.

As if "Leninists" don't dismiss with contempt independent nations by calling them "formally independent", "semi-colonies", "neo-colonies" etc. As if "Leninists" don't show their contempt for national liberation struggles, if they are not lead by "vanguards" guided by "Leninist" pseudo-theories.

Ulhas



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