>CB: What's it mean to be a Marxist in the USA in 2003 ? Why is being
>a Marxist in 2003 in the USA less a fringe tendency than being a
>Leninist ?
Marxism is about an understanding of capitalism - the root of value production in exploitation, its transformation into a variety of phenomenal forms, the centrality of class, etc. etc. Leninism is mostly about political practice. You can be a Marxist and believe in vanguard parties or street parties as the central mechanism of political transformation.
Doug