[lbo-talk] Lenin quote

[Doug Henwood]

Hmm, looking through Russell Jacoby's article on the history of crisis  
theory in Marxism, I see nothing like the Lenin quote. It's certainly  
not against the drift of Lenin's thinking, though. E.g., Lenin on  
Luxemburg: "It pleases me very much taht you in the main point came to  
the same result that I 14 years ago defended against Tugan-Baranowsky  
and the 'populists,' namely that the realization of surplus value even  
in a 'pure' capitalist society is possible." Later, "I have read  
Rosa's new book... Horribly false interpretation! She has distorted  
Marx." While Lenin thought that crises were an inevitable part of  
capitalism, they were temporary things. More Lenin (again from  
Jacoby): "[T]he limits of the development of the market in capitalist  
society are set by the limits of the specialization of social labour.  
But this specialization by its very nature is as infinite as technical  
developments."