This is quite interesting, to be sure. But it makes me wonder if the thrust of
it is that Lenin should have written an analysis called "Nothing Can Be Done"
rather than "What Is To Be Done?"
We don't know what an epoch may seem to have destined us to until we get out of
it and look back.
Mark Jones wrote:
W orld socialism was a subsystem of the worldsystem and as such could not
run deeper than the system of which it was a part. Had Lenin realized the
workings of the world economic system, he would have concluded that Russia
had no chance whatsoever to build an antisystemic economy in the midst of an
overpowering world capitalist system. In his earlier writings, Lenin had a
glimpse of that reality, hoping that another socialist revolution would
break out in Germany, bailing out the Russian one. Instead, as his dream
failed to materialize he began a desperate enterprise: socialism in one
country. In retrospective, I venture to say that the pervasive power of the
worldsystem expressed itself in the fact that Lenin and Stalin,
unconsciously, conceived both socialist society, as well as the future
communist society, within the limits of the industrial system, which
historically belongs to the capitalist epoch.
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