>Lenin was very shrewd at appraising the balance of power.
Precisely what is needed to asses the conjuncture. But there is also the
question of disciplined struggle. I've yet to be convinced that there is a
better way to do it than democratic centralism. This, however, at the
point where our dialogue is, may be an "insider" discussion that will
distract us from what feels like some progress.
>
>The fundamental weakness of his model nowadays is that his one single
>correct Bolshevik party per state, does not effectively address modern
>politics in an advanced overripe bourgeois democracy in which interest
>groups and ideas are pluralistic.
>
>Without succumbing to it, Leninist politics have to address the challenge
>of post-modernism.
Sorry, but I don't understand what "the challenge of post-modernism" is.
It needs networks in which as many individuals play
>their part in contributing to the vanguard, but without there being one
>single vanguard. Networks are not best built by a relentless battle against
>the forces of Menshevism but they do require a more pervasive inhibition of
>opportunist politics whether of the left or the right.
I think you are confusing Lenin's theoretical insights with the particular
tactical activity surrounding the SDP then Bolshevik Party. No one would
suggest we try to replicate the Bolshevik Revolution.
>
>Chris Burford
>
>London
"If insurrection is an art, its main content is to know how to give the
struggle the form appropriate to the political situation."
-Vo Nguyen Giap
"Rather than seeking comparabilities in statistical terms among what are
all too often superficial features of different situations, comparabilities
must be sought at the level of determinate mechanisms, at the level of
processes that are generally hidden from easy view."
-Eleanor Burke Leacock
"Every day one has to struggle that this love to a living humanity
transform itself into concrete acts, in acts that serve as examples, as
motivation."
-Ernesto "Che" Guevara
"Mask no difficulties."
-Amilcar Cabral
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