[lbo-talk] [Spam] Re: [marxism-thaxis] Query

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Sun Jan 14 14:38:21 PST 2018


And as it turns out Mao was quoting Lenin correctly. That was from a 1920 article that Lenin wrote on an Austrian journal, KOMMUNISMUS: Journal of the Communist International. "G. L.’s article is very Left-wing, and very poor. Its Marxism is purely verbal; its distinction between “defensive” and “offensive” tactics is artificial; it gives no concrete analysis of precise and definite historical situations; it takes no account of what is most essential (the need to take over and to learn to take over, all fields of work and all institutions in which the bourgeoisie exerts its influence over the masses, etc.)." https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/jun/12.htm Jim Farmelanthttp://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelanthttp://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math

---------- Original Message ---------- From: "Jim Farmelant" <farmelantj at juno.com> To: marxism-thaxis at lists.riseup.net, lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Cc: marxism-thaxis at lists.riseup.net Subject: Re: [marxism-thaxis] Query Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 22:30:12 GMT

The actual quote from Mao is:------------------------------Concrete analysis of concrete conditions, Lenin said, is "the most essential thing in Marxism, the living soul of Marxism". Lacking an analytical approach, many of our comrades do not want to go deeply into complex matters, to analyse and study them over and over again, but like to draw simple conclusions which are either absolutely affirmative or absolutely negative.... From now on we should remedy this state of affairs."Our Study and the Current Situation" (April 12, 1944), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 165.--------------------------------------------- So Mao was attributing that to Lenin. But that raises the question as to whether he was directly quoting Lenin or was Mao paraphrasing hum. Jim Farmelanthttp://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelanthttp://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math

---------- Original Message ---------- From: "Cox, Carrol" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> To: "marxism-thaxis at lists.riseup.net" <marxism-thaxis at lists.riseup.net> Subject: [marxism-thaxis] Query Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 19:36:50 +0000

I'm trying to trace the first appearance in Marxist (or Marx) writings of the phrase, "concrete analysis of concrete conditions." My eyesight makes it difficult to follow reference in a google search, but the most frequent reference is to Mao, On Contradiction, but I'm sure it has appeared elsewhere (and earlier)????

Could anyone help?

Carrol

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