--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please leave Marx out of it. He died in 1883 (34 > years before the Russian > Revolution), he never expected (nor would he have > approved) Communism to come > first to an agrarian, largely pre-industrial country > like Russia, and he would > have been appalled, infuriated, outraged, disgusted, > shocked and in every other > possible way rejected everything Lenin and Stalin > and their successors did in > the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere. > > Tom Beck
I doubt it. Although Marx certainly wouldn't have wanted communism to come to Russia first, everything that _happened_ in Russia is a logical outgrowth of his beliefs. Marx certainly would have had great sympathy for the methods Lenin and Stalin used - they follow from his philosophy fairly clearly. The dictatorship part of "dictatorship of the proletariat" was not a misnomer. Marx _certainly_ would have approved of Lenin's and Stalin's anti-semitism. "On the Jewish Question" is so viciously anti-semitic that the historical affinity of some Jewish intellectuals for Marxism has always confused the hell out of me. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
