c b wrote:
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> CB: Guessing the original "orthodox" Marxists, M and E, would have
> been more like Lenin than Trotsky on this issue. So, actually, Lenin
> is the orthodox Marxist in this comparison. M and E's attitude to the
> US Civil War might have some evidence of this.
They weren't even Marxists, let alone "orthodox Marixsts." Kautsky and Lenin created Marxism; Stalin created Leninism. The resultant artifical construts have subsequently been twisted around to fit whatever politics a given "Marxist" or "Leninist" was following at a given time. Both change constantly at the behest of immeidate needs, real or imagined.
Carrol