[lbo-talk] Re: GEORGE GALLOWAY PANDERS TO THE HOMOPHOBES

[Michael Pugliese]

On 11/26/05, www.leninology. blogspot.com <leninology at hotmail.com>
wrote:As for Cliff - yes, I know why you liked him.  He was a giant. 
If you saw
him speak, you'll know I don't mean that literally, but he certainly had a
way of communicating his passion to audiences and motivating them in ways
Anthony Robbins can only masturbate over.  Not only that, but he was *clear*
despite his accent, which isn't a virtue most political orators guard very
jealously these day

   audio of cliff and other swp'ers,
http://mp3.lpi.org.uk/
Lenin and the party
Speaker: Tony Cliff
Recorded: July 1995(?) at Marxism, London
Time: 44 minutes

Cliff speaks about Lenin and the revolutionary party with a fine array
of anecdotes and examples that make the point more entertaining. He
begins 'to understand Lenin's concept of the revolutionary party you
have to start from two statements by Karl Marx. The first is the
emancipation of the working class is the act of the working class. The
second is the prevailing ideas in every society are the ideas of the
ruling class'

Part 1: Length 16:43 minutes - 2.87Mb

Part 2: Length: 20:57 minute - 3.59Mb

Summing up: Length: 7:08 minute - 1.22Mb
State Capitalism
Speaker: Tony Cliff
Recorded: July 1999 at Marxism, London
Time: 66 minutes

This recording is provided by Linksruck, who are part of the ISO
grouping in Germany, there site is at: http://www.linksruck.de/
Cliff's book State Capitalism in Russia was first written in 1948. In
it he showed that Russia and societies like it can only be understood
as specific forms of capitalism--State Capitalism. In this talk Cliff
starts by describing the Stalinist regime in USSR in the 1930s.

Part 1: Main lecture 33 minutes - 3,863kb

Part 2: Discussion: 25 minute - 2,909kb

Part 3: Summing-up: 8 minute - 936kb

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Michael Pugliese