[lbo-talk] RE: Democratic Communism

[Curtiss Leung]

Do you then mean that it is an *interpretation* that it has not 
been refuted, i.e., no one has demonstrated that what Lenin
drew from Marx was unjustified or incorrect? Or that the model
it proposes for the state after capitalism, regardless of the
correctness of its interpretation of Marx, has not been refuted?
Both?

If only the first, I'm sure there's room for controversy; isn't 
Lenin's notion of a vanguard sited as an innovation?  If the second,
then, yes, you are talking about a prediction that has not come 
to pass.

Curtiss


>> How can you refute a prediction that has never come to pass?
>> Ian
> We're talking about *interpretation* of Marx's existent
> theoretical conception, not predictions of distant history.
> Shane