Revolutionary Defeatism

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 7:32 PM -0500 3/26/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
>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.

US leftists, as far as I can see, are as sophisticated in 
understanding capitalism as leftists in nations such as France and 
Venezuela who are far better organized and more powerful than here. 
I conclude that US leftists are lacking not in what Marx was good at 
but in what Lenin excelled.
-- 
Yoshie

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