Leninism is Marxism: A rose by any other name is just as sweet

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 6:00 PM -0500 3/27/03, BrownBingb at aol.com wrote:
>don't you think Lenin got his emphasis on uniting this theory with 
>practice FROM Marx ? Recall the Theses on Feuerbach in which Marx 
>distinguishes himself from other materialists by his giving primacy 
>to practical-critical activity.
<snip>
>Lenin would not make a dogma out of the vanguard party. The 
>organizational form for catalyzing change in 2003 in the U.S. is not 
>likely to be just like that for doing it in Russia in 1905.

Naturally, I agree with Charles.  Lenin had a far better 
understanding of imperialism and national oppression than Marx did, 
though.
-- 
Yoshie

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