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On 8/8/17 8:41 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
So funny. Jean Bricmont, Diana Johnstone's writing partner, has written
articles with her defending Putin, Assad and the "axis of resistance"
but here he takes the side of Bertrand Russell in denouncing the Russian
Revolution as a dictatorship from the outset.
https://monthlyreview.org/2017/07/01/bertrand-russell-and-the-socialism-that-wasnt/
From the article:
The “materialist theory of history” assumes that in the last analysis,
human actions are motivated by the desire to possess as much material
goods as possible, and that ideological phenomena are to be explained on
that basis.
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Good point. I have vivid recollections of that passage in Kautsky's
"Materialist Conception of History" where he bragged about his wine cellar.
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