[lbo-talk] What are we waiting for?

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Wed Jan 27 20:11:10 PST 2010


On Jan 27, 2010, at 10:56 PM, Michael Smith wrote:


> On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:05:08 -0800
> Joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Well, first we need something everyone will understand, like Lenin's
>> "Peace, land, and bread."
>>
>
But! "Peace, land, and bread" was not Lenin's--it was the Russian masses'. The genius of Lenin and Trotsky was their ability to hear the masses and speak to them in their own language.

Shane Mage


> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos



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