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Ethan Young wrote: > Vol 5, No 2 (2009) > SPECIAL SECTION ON RETHINKING LENINISM: Introduction > Alex Levant > http://www.socialiststudies.com/index.php/sss/article/view/82 > > Leninism: It's Not What You Think > Paul Kellogg > http://www.socialiststudies.com/index.php/sss/article/view/84 > > Strategy, Meta-strategy and Anti-capitalist Activism: Rethinking Leninism by > Re-reading Lenin > Stephen D'Arcy > http://www.socialiststudies.com/index.php/sss/article/view/85 > > Lenin's Aggressive Unoriginality, 1914-1916 > Lars T Lih > http://www.socialiststudies.com/index.php/sss/article/view/86 > A mixed bag, at first blush. Lih's groundbreaking work should be familiar to all by now. Kellogg makes good points along the same lines. But I found D'Arcy's article problematic, especially this: >>This means taking very seriously the task of building up the so- called ‘social economy’: workers’ co-operatives, consumer and housing co-operatives, experiments in ‘participatory economics,’ small-scale barter economies, and other forms of democratic and egalitarian economic activity operating in the margins and interstices of contemporary capitalism (Gibson-Graham 2006). Marx rightly saw in co-operatives the seeds of a new, radically democratic and egalitarian alternative to capitalism (Marx 1894, Chapter 27), yet many self-described ‘Marxists’ pay almost no attention to the co-operative movement.<< Just by coincidence, I am nearly finished with Sharryn Kasmir's "The Myth of Mondragon" that I using to prepare a response to Carl Davidson's rather hyperventilated piece on the USW's partnership with Mondragon. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
