On Sep 12, 2009, at 11:31 AM, c b wrote: > Lenin might chastise me for dogmatic reference to _The State and > Revolution_ given that the South > and Central American revolution has organized the working class > majorities in many countries so as to use the bourgeois-democratic > electoral/mass sufferage system to seize state power.
But he should not be forgiven for that, because his allegedly deep understanding of Marxian theory was in fact much too shallow even to dream of the existence of such a wonderful creature as "the South and Central American revolution" which could--in the absence of modern working classes, significant proletarian parties, or meaningful trade unions, (not to mention soviets)--"seize state power" by electoral means. Who could have imagined how much more *die vernunft* has gotten *listige* nowadays! Shane Mage > This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it > always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, > kindling in measures and going out in measures." > > Herakleitos of Ephesos _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
