Rob says:
>My last blurt on this:
>
>> CB: Hey Rob, yes and subsequent to his book, in a talk to the
>>recent conference in Essen _on_ Lenin, he said Lenin's theory of
>>imperialism has nothing to teach us about finance today. If that
>>was his attitude in writing _Wallstreet_ it has to cast heavy
>>suspicions as to whether he could really get down and dirty with
>>how modern American finance works and how it's conected to the real
>>world".<
>
>Well if you've read the book, you'll have made up your mind on the only
>evidence that counts, Chas.
Doug's problem is that he's an empiricist, so he's completely missing
the main _theoretical_ arguments that Lenin made in his analysis of
imperialism.
Yoshie
Postscript:
***** We ask our Economists: What do they mean by "the gathering of
working-class strength for the struggle"? Is it not evident that
this means the political training of the workers, so that all the
aspects of our vile autocracy are revealed to them? And is it not
clear that precisely for this work we need "allies in the ranks of
the liberals and intellectuals", who are prepared to join us in the
exposure of the political attack on the Zemstvos, on the teachers, on
the statisticians, on the students, etc.? Is this surprisingly
"intricate mechanism" really so difficult to understand?
<http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/what-itd/ch03.htm#03_E>
*****
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