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OK, but I'm hoping that obsessing about the minutae of what Lenin did or didn't write in 1903 and its meaning isn't an exercise in talmudism akin to salvaging the reputation of Moses from the heterodox-or the orthodox-that a true study of the torah will surely reveal particularly when you consider what the real social context of 1200 BC really was and you consider what the real significance of Golden Calf was unlike the meme that got created around it giving Moses a bad name as an intolerant persecutor of animism. On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > > On 4/19/12 9:23 PM, Tom Cod wrote: >> >> I just finished reading Lars Lih's little 200 plus page book on Lenin >> and was a little underwhelmed by it after all the praise I had heard >> for it previously in certain quarters. > > > Actually the book has not made the impact of his much larger book on "What > is to be Done". It seems to be a modest contribution from what I have heard. > > >> In particular a discussion of the Soviets >> and their evolution is treated with extreme paucity in Lih's work >> which comes across as a high school level biography, albeit a decent >> but flawed one. > > > Sorry you were disappointed, but the other book is of great importance. > > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/tomcod3%40gmail.com ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
