> Remember: Stalinism does not equal socialism. A planned economy does not
> equal a command economy.
In two sentences, a major part of what I've been trying to tell Charles for at least 4 yrs. now.
Cue to CB telling you a Trotskyist that you are a, "red-baiter."
But, do you have any crits of LDT and the 57 varieties of (mostly ineffectual) Trotskyism? Last yr. I read a critique of Trotsky and Trotskyism by an Aussie neo-marxist w/ a slight pomo bent, Peter Beilharz, which impressed me greatly. "Trotsky, Trotskyism and the Transition to Socialism, " published in '87. An editor of Thesis Eleven, which has published alot of Castoriadis and Agnes Heller, two faves. To condence his argument greatly, he 'sez LDT was economistic, objectivistic, reductionist and teleological.
-- Michael Pugliese