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[Carrol Cox]

I had forgotten this passage from Lenin. It fits in with my sense of
Lenin as someone who was _essentially_ an activist, not a theorist,
driven constantly to theory because he _needed_ it and the damn fools
around him wouldn't or couldn't provide it! This is why to appreciate
what a greate figure he was one should read his letters, his short
articles responding to other revolutionariesd, etc. They exempligy what
he meant by "concrete analysis of concrete conditions." At that he was a
master. As a theorist he deserves at most about a B+. And those who
_made_ a theorist out of him (primarily Stalin and Trotsky) royally
fucked up in doing so.

Carrol