[lbo-talk] tipping and control, again

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Nov 19 16:19:26 PST 2013


It's dishonest to treat anyone's politics as reflecting "purity," purification, etc. It's absolute bull shit.

One Marxist on SftP condemns every Marxist leader except Lenin as "revisionist." That is nonsense; his politics are screwed up. But You are lying to yourself and others if you call his motive "purity." He is against capitalism and actually _believes_ that capitalism can be overthrown only by following certain principles. His terribly wrong; it's an intellectual and political error -- but I insist hauling in purity is worse bull shit than his error.

Carrol



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