[lbo-talk] New German Left Party Overtakes Greens

Dennis Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Wed Jul 20 17:43:02 PDT 2005


Paul wrote:


> This small and unorganized group inside WASG sees an interest in
> recapturing this space within Marxism - a split away from Social Democracy
> - BUT not having to confront Leninism as a burning issue

Well, my question would be, just how is Leninism -- a political and social movement designed to modernize a Third World peasant society just beginning to industrialize -- the slightest bit relevant to one of the world's most developed capitalist economies?

-- DRR



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