Regardless of how the USSR perceived Lenin's texts in 1977, _State and
Revolution_ including _What is to be Done_ were written particulary
_against_ anarchism, secterianism and vulgar economism so typical
of Russian politics at the turn of the century.
Mine
>>> Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/11/00 12:15PM >>>
I wrote:
>BTW, a friend (an expert on Soviet agriculture and politics) who spent a
>year in the USSR in 1977 or so reported that Soviet academics were
>expected to quote from Lenin in all articles (including articles on soil
>chemistry). But they weren't supposed to quote from THE STATE AND
>REVOLUTION, seemingly because it was seen as anarchistic.
quoth Charles Brown:
>CB: Do you think the "freedom" of U.S. academics from this disciplined
>Leninism results in better or worse intellectual products as compared with
>the SU ?
I don't think this kind of comparison (the quality of intellectual
products) can be made.
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