On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 04:18 AM, hari kumar wrote: > > However I also think it is worth remarking that there is one major omission > ( maybe that is the wrong word - see below). It seems to me, there is a > very clear refusal to acknowledge that Lenin very clearly - and in > whatever relevant writing is examined - that the task in the semi-colonial > and colonial worlds, is to move from the bourgeois democratic stage > "without a Chinese Wall" and "uninterruptedly" - to the "revolutionary > stage".
Critical point and I wish Lenin were as *un* ambiguous as Hari is and thinks Lenin was. Unfortunately, I find ambiguity in Lenin's remarks that lends support to the criticism that Lenin's identification of national liberation with a "bourgeois-democratic" phase is the (re)iteration of stage-ist theory and the ignoring of the significance of uneven and combined development to colonialism. It reminds me a bit of Lenin's "democratic-dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry"--a "hedge" on the bet so to speak. Rereading the JBF essay after Hari's essential analysis-- it seems to me that one of JBF's goals is preservation of that ambiguity and a hedge against the bet on transformation of "national liberation" into proletarian revolution. Thanks to Hari. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33343): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33343 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109354806/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
