--- Peter Lavelle <untimely_thoughts at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Corrol,
>
> Have you ever read A. J. Polan's "Lenin and the end
> of politics"? As a matter of fact has anyone on this
> list read this work? Put me off anything anybody has
> to say good about Valodia.
>
> Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> uvj at vsnl.com wrote:
> >
> > Carrol Cox wrote:
> >
> > > I realize no one on lbo-talk would agree with
> Kipling's argument as
> > > expressed a century ago. But whatever the
> intentions of those who hope
> > > that the u.s. government might do "something
> good" in Iraq, in practice
> > > that position is a repetition in new dress of
> Kipling's world view.
> >
> > Surely there are people on this list and elsewhere
> who believe in the "civilizing mission" of
> "Marxism-Leninism" in the "Third world".
> >
>
> You mean Mao, Ho, Cabral, Sandino, et al all came
> from Europe? And here
> for decades I had been suffering from the delusion
> that one of my
> favorite marxists, Amilcar Cabral, was an African.
>
> There is an old chestnut of red-baiting: Wherever
> you find them,
> Communists came from someplace else.
>
> I don't know whether there are any
> "marxist-leninists" on this list or
> not. I'm a Marxist who believes that Lenin was a
> great Marxist and one
> from whom we can learn, but I'm not a
> "Marxist-Leninist," and haven't
> called myself that for a couple decades. It's one of
> the inheritances
> from the Third International that we can do without.
>
>
> Carrol
>
> > Ulhas
>
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