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Jones is a 74 year old don who used to be on the editorial board of the
NLR. This is a review of his new book:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/14/karl-marx-greatness-and-illusion-review-gareth-stedman-jones
I wouldn't waste my money on it myself, especially since his take on
Lenin is this very long interview is so specious:
Lenin tries to do so by his famous arguments that capitalism is as strong
as its weakest link, and pre-revolutionary Russia has presented it as being the
weakest link. So really he cuts through this whole argument about whether there
are enough workers as a proportion of the population to produce a viable
socialist society. Clearly, there weren’t and the Soviets learned to their
costs. I
mean, the forces of real socialism were thin in the country and much, therefore,
was done by brute force. And of course it changed the image of socialism ever
afterwards to that of being a very top-heavy, authoritarian, ruthless state
machine, which was if anything, the opposite of what people would have thought
socialism was meant to be in the mid-nineteenth century.
full:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/14/karl-marx-greatness-and-illusion-review-gareth-stedman-jones
The fucking "forces of real socialism were thin in the country and much,
therefore, was done by brute force" because invading imperialist armies
leveled them to the ground.
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