[lbo-talk] MR & Maoism

tfast tfast at yorku.ca
Sun Aug 27 21:06:05 PDT 2006


What is more interesng is if you think or have any grounds to think/argue if MHL/PB positio is wrong. Perhaps you are unqualified to comment so then we are back to what is the correct position of the left on this question. Correct for whom and who cares. Really Doug this is bottom feeding.

Travis

Doug Henwood wrote:


> So I was catching up on my Workers Vanguards last night - always a
> salutary experience - and came across this in the course of an
> excellent article on China. WV criticizes Paul Burkett & Marty Hart-
> Landsberg's work on China, which is hostile to China's rapid economic
> growth, preferring instead a more localist/green model. The Sparts,
> by contrast, take a more traditionally orthodox Marxist position,
> which holds that you can't have socialism without the (centralizing)
> development of the productive forces, and which sees capitalism as a
> brake on such development. WV comments that "it is, as they say, no
> accident that" Burkett & Hart-Landsberg's work was first published in
> Monthly Review, which "has long been the main journal of American
> intellectuals of the Maoist persuasion." They quote Paul Sweezy as
> saying back in 1974 that "a low level of development of the
> productive forces is not an insuperable obstacle" to socialism. WV
> comments that this thinking is based on a binary model of the world
> as a false set of forced choices between "integration into the
> capitalist world market or one form or another of pseudo-egalitarian
> national economic self-sufficiency."
>
> If true, this would present Yoshie's fondness for Iran in an
> interesting context.
>
> Since we've got several MR people here , I'm wondering - is this a
> fair characterization of MR's history and position?
>
> Doug
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