>>> "ngoro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/03 1:00 AM >>>
Thus, I can�t agree with the definition of Bolshevism as a
kind of "capitalist
strategy" shared by Tahir Wood and Mark. And, according to
Mark, also by
Lenin, which is highly contestable even if Mark and Tahir
were right.
I dunno about Mark, but my argument was a bit different: I
separate the conscious intention from the limitations of the
theory. Much of Leninism (not all) in my view has little to
do with marxism. For example socialism = soviets +
electrification. Or that socialism equals the whole
bourgeois financial and banking edifice "taken over" by the
people's state. Stalin (and Trotsky's) "productivism" falls
solidly in line with this mentality. Does that mean that
Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky were "trying" to limit the
revolution to state capitalism? Of course not, but that is
the practical outcome of a theory which pragmatically
reduces marxism to productivism plus workers'control,
whether or not it was consciously intended to do this. The
Stalin vs Trotsky debate is as dead as a doornail, or should
be.
Tahir
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