I think Charles is gesturing to the fact that parties such as the PCF, PCI, etc. had large mass membership and followings at their height. The CPUSA had a smaller impact, but it would be gross negligence to ignore its impact on the developments of the country. Robert Wood
> I'm not sure the masses ever chose Lenin and Trotsky.
>
> --- Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us>
> wrote:
>
>> >
>> CB: My impression is more masses chose the Marxist
>> contemporaries of
>> Weber, Lenin, Trotsky, than chose Weber. The test of
>> theory/study is
>> practice. Where did Weber succeed in the practice of
>> getting chose by
>> masses ? ( I mean besides masses of sociology
>> teachers) .
>>
>> Didn't the PCF get more votes than Bourdieu ? ( I
>> mean besides among
>> sociology teachers )
>>
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