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>If it refers to the model of party organization - a small band of secretive
>professional revolutionaries at the "vanguard" of a popular movement - then
>what does that mean today?
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According to Hal Draper, that whole idea of ascribing such a "model" to Lenin looks bogus, dreamed up by demonizing Leninologists and Lenin's detractors eg Rosa Luxemburg.
The Myth of Lenin's "Concept of The Party" or What They Did to What Is To Be Done?
http://www.ex.ac.uk/Projects/meia/draper/1990/myth/myth.html
I've been thinking for some time that "Leninism" is something of a shibboleth of the "far Left".
Todd
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