On 2011-03-25, at 10:53 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Mar 25, 2011, at 9:07 AM, // ravi wrote:
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>> At the same time, Carrol can, I think, cut us some slack for attempting think through things
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> To him, there's nothing to be thought through. Everything is settled, and can be expressed in a few rigid axioms. Funny, given his age, that Lenin caricatured this mode of thought as an infantile disorder.
True enough, although (inadvertently) insulting to the so-called "left communists" like Bordiga, Pannekoek, Pankhurst and others - serious revolutionaries who engaged coherently and respectfully with Lenin and the dominant Bolshevik faction, even when riled, and the latter conducted themselves the same way.