Revolutionary Defeatism

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 12:58 PM -0500 3/26/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>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?

The former.  One can't have an intelligible discussion, much less an 
intelligible disagreement, unless one knows what's what.

At 12:58 PM -0500 3/26/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
>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.

I'm a self-identified Leninist here, and I'd like to hear what you 
don't like about what I say or why you find what I say irrelevant.
-- 
Yoshie

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