>At 12:08 AM +0000 3/26/03, loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote:
>>Yoshie, I'm not sure exactly what you are driving at by posting an
>>article by Lenin on revolutionary defeatism in the war between
>>Russia and Germany / Austria-Hungary, because of course a Leninist
>>position on a war between an imperialist power and a country which
>>it is attempting to conquer and colonize is significantly different
>>(and I know very well that I'm not saying anything you don't know,
>>which is why I say I don't know exactly what you were thinking of).
>
>One can't say that "of course a Leninist position" on X means Y
>here, as a Leninist position on anything is alien to many
>LBO-talkers.
Alien in the sense of unknown, or in the sense of disagreement? Many of us are quite aware of what a "Leninist" position is - at least as maintained by self-identified Leninists, since we lack the benefit of any posthumous communications from VI himself - and just don't like it or find it irrelevant. Please clarify.
Doug