[lbo-talk] The Ideology Problem

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Mon May 3 21:23:04 PDT 2010


Carrol Cox wrote:


> But no social movement has _ever_ been _inspired_ by Marxism. Rather
> social movements (including the Russian Revolution) come from a whole
> complex of "inspirations" and as they gain momentum _some_ elements of
> that movement adopt Marxism as making most sense of what they are doing.
>

Carrol, this is a red herring. They may have become Marxist early or late. Either way, the Marxism adopted by the movements in question was not what shag is thinking of as Marxism. It more resembled what she thinks of as "Enlightenment Liberalism."

SA



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