The Russian Civil War was more a case of free-for-all carnage than one of one class suppressing another.
--- On Tue, 1/27/09, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> From: James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Libertarian "smackdwn" on Chomsky's "private tyranny" idea re: corporations
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 3:43 PM
> Wasn't the virtue of Lenin's concept of the state
> that it was tyrannical? As a student of Engels, Lenin knew
> that the revolution was not a tea party, but the forcible
> suppression of one class by another (c.f Engels' essay
> On Revolution).
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