[lbo-talk] a victory of sorts in india...

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu May 13 11:43:27 PDT 2004


John Lacny wrote:


>Shane Mage writes:
>
>> yesterday there would have been plenty
>> around to tell us how voting Communist
>> Party (of your choice) would throw the
>> election to the BJP.
>
>Bullshit. No one would have made any such claim, because there was
>no such danger, India having a parliamentary system.
>
>Marxism is supposed to involve "the concrete analysis of concrete
>conditions." Marxism appears to be in short supply among some
>"Marxists."

The CPs in India are real parties, with members and histories. There's nothing like 'em here. Why do people have such a hard time understanding this difference?

Doug



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