Does Hugh think Gramsci is a revisionist or not?
Chris Burford
London
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At 19:09 11/01/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Chris writes:
>
>>Presumably if Hugh always assumed Gramsci was a revisionist he did not know
>>the details I posted which I extracted from the Dictionary of Marxist
Thought.
>
>Gramsci's positive attitude to the theory of Permanent Revolution during
>the first few years of October and the Third International is hardly
>surprising. Not even Stalin dared criticize Lenin or Trotsky for this view
>(completely against the Two-Stage Theory of revolution of course) in those
>years. It's what happens to this attitude after the Stalinist
>counter-revolution and the dogmatization of Socialism in One Country etc
>that counts.
>If he thinks the quote from the Dictionary solves that, he's wrong.
>If he thinks that deliberate vagueness and political code is a necessary
>aspect of writing by a communist leader in prison, he should say so and
>crack the code for us so the real revolutionary message of Gramsci's work
>emerges.
>the real orthodox revolutionary Marxist
>message of Gramsci's writings
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