[lbo-talk] breaking news: I'm a "committed Leninist"

[Doug Henwood]

Todd Archer wrote:
>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".

So being Leninist means being flexible and open? Who's against that, 
except maybe the parties that call themselves Leninist today? I still 
have no idea what it means to be a Leninist in 2004.

Doug