[lbo-talk] the wink that popped chubbies around the world

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Oct 7 13:45:30 PDT 2008


On Oct 7, 2008, at 4:32 PM, Charles Brown wrote:


> CB: This is not quite correct. Although , Lenin was famous for
> "concrete analysis of the concrete situation", he did contribute to
> general socialist revolutionary theory .

But most of his writing was for the moment, wasn't it? Very specific to time and place. Seems a lot of people want to pluck it out of context and turn it into timeless truth.

And I say that as someone who admires Lenin. Hell, I've even got a pic of him on the refrigerator.

Doug



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