>
> No- part of the argument is over whether the Soviet Union and Stalinism
> even
> constitutes "Marxism" and an attempt to distinguish between those claiming
> that such is necessary to socialist history and those who see it as a
> betrayal of the working class.
>
> -- Nathan newman
>
> ^^^^^^^
> CB: I assume then that those who argue the SU wasn't practice of Marxism
> hold that Marxism has never been practiced or actualized. This then raises
> a new problem, an especially serious one for Marxism, because Marx
> emphasized changing the world not just interpreting it. If Marxism has
> never come into the world , is it a pipe dream , unrealistic, contemplative
> and not practical-critical ?
>
> What do you make of the fact that it was Marx who formulated the
> revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat ? Are you sure you are not
> putting a liberal gloss on Marx ?
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