[lbo-talk] The State

c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 11:36:43 PDT 2009


What could be clearer? For Marx the essential character of the proletarian regime is *democracy*. For CB the stalinist totalitarian regimes are "classical Marxist."

Shane Mage

^^^^ CB: What could be more contradictory, more dialectical ? For Marx, the whole socialist transition is also a dictatorship of the proletariat, including "despotic inroads on the rights of property." For Shane, telling liberal half-truths about what Marx wrote is fine and dandy.



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