On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:34:28 -0500 Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> It can be found in the letters to Vera Zasulich, dated
> February-March 1881.
> In the final draft, he states that the rural peasant commune is the
> fulcrum
> for revolution in Russia. There is also the letter to the editorial
> board
> of the populist newspaper "Otechestvennye Zapiski" from around the
> same
> time in which Marx disassociates himself with certain Marxists who
> believe
> that industrialization is a precondition for socialism. He states
> that the
> version of economic development found in Capital was geared only to
> England
> and similar countries and did not necessarily apply to countries
> like
> Russia. His words for this view are apt: "a historico-philosophical
> theory
> of the general course fatally imposed on all peoples". It is a view
> he
> rejects. In general the notion that socialism is not possible
> without
> establishing industrial capitalism beforehand is typical of Kautsky
> and
> Plekhanov, not Marx or Lenin for that matter.
In fact wasn't Marx in those letters consciously siding against Plekhanov
who had already been engaged in controversy with the Norodniks
precisely over this issue? The journal for which Marx wrote those
letters, was I believe a Narodnik journal.
Jim Farmelant
>
> Louis Proyect
> Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org/
>
> _______________________________________________
> CrashList website: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base
________________________________________________________________
GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO!
Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less!
Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit:
http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
_______________________________________________
CrashList website: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base
