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

Max Sawicky sawicky at verizon.net
Mon Oct 17 12:47:03 PDT 2011


Anarchism is pretty diverse. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be anarchist.

Of Lange, what specifically?

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:


> Both seem to be pipe dreams. Try Oskar Lange for a change.
>
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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