[lbo-talk] query: from anarchist to marxist???

[Max Sawicky]

I read State and Revolution, 40 years ago or so. A few shorter things I
don't remember at all.  I take Leninism to be the idea of a centralized
vanguard party that foments a socialist revolution in the U.S. by force of
arms.  In other words, a pipe dream.  I do think industrial action -- mass
strikes -- can force significant changes.  Seems to me anarchist ideas in
all their diversity are more interesting as radical possibilities.  None of
this dismisses the relevance of Marx, IMO.  Anarchists can be marxists.

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Julio Huato <juliohuato at gmail.com> wrote:


> Max wrote:
>
> > Leninism is a dry hole, AFAIAC
>
> Leninism perhaps, but Lenin is a completely different thing.  The bulk
> of his work is online now at marxists.org.  One interesting way to
> read the guy is from his (main) latest to his (main) earliest works.
> Of course, no time to read his complete works -- which a small group
> of us at the U of Havana did, and discussed at length, in the 1980s,
> as the tomes were being published in Spanish by Progress Publishers,
> and how glad I am I did such a thing! -- but there are a lot of small
> documents worth reading and studying carefully.
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