Wojtek
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Max Sawicky <sawicky at verizon.net> wrote:
> 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.
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> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Julio Huato <juliohuato at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Max wrote:
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>> > Leninism is a dry hole, AFAIAC
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>> 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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