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When the Books Don't Cook
Goodbye Leninism
by LOUIS PROYECT
On August 2nd Ian Birchall wrote an article titled “Lenin: Yes!
Leninism: No?” for the Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century
(RS21) website that has touched off an ongoing debate. For those trying
to create an effective anticapitalist movement, Birchall’s article makes
plenty of sense since it goes a long way toward putting the icons of
October 1917 where they belong, into the historical archives. For those,
however, who want to trace their lineage back to the Bolshevik
revolution, like the connection that the Catholic Church makes between
Pope Francis (a pretty good guy by the evidence) and Saint Peter, there
is a need to uphold the sanctity of “Leninism”. Yet nobody outside the
ranks of a Leninist party or the Catholic Church takes the lineage
claims very seriously, especially people like me who went through such a
painful experience (Leninism, not Catholicism.)
full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/14/goodbye-leninism/
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