Leninism in 2003 (was: Re: Revolutionary Defeatism

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 27 08:58:35 PST 2003



>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>... I'm still not seeing a good answer to what it means to be a Leninist in
>the here and now.

I guess it means being a neocon :) See Harold Meyerson's "Smart Bombs, Dumb War" in the Wash. Post:

"The neoconservatives who have been promoting war with Iraq ever since Poppy Bush let Saddam Hussein get away in 1991 have long acted with a kind of historical certitude, exhibiting an almost Leninist ruthlessness toward any institution that would impede America's hegemony. (In fact, neoconservatives can trace their roots to Trotskyist anti-Stalinism, and they seem to have retained the Trotskyists' imperviousness to all those annoying facts that suggest history may have gotten off course.)"

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34663-2003Mar26.html>

Carl

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