[lbo-talk] Lenin & Oligopoly

[Michael Dawson -PSU]

> What are some examples of good political theorists by this criterion
> -- and to be fair about it, these should be examples of theorists
> working around the early 1900s and describing and predicting
> political processes and relationships for the 20th century, not short
> or even medium range theorists.

Why the time limits?  Even within them:  Thorstein Veblen, John Dewey, Rosa
Luxemburg, Marx and Engels, Eugene Debs, Frederick Douglass, W.E. B. DuBois,
E. Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony.  I would also give credit, though not
sympathy, to bourgeois theorists of the era who were right about modern
power's dynamics, but not its ultimate meaning: Mosca, Pareto, Bernays,
Lippmann, Schumpeter, Lord Acton.

All these figures (and many others) blow Lenin's doors off in terms of
political theory staying power.