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>Sometimes interesting writer. Important historical figure, long dead.
>Not of much relevance to politics in an OECD country in the year 2000.
Well I think the point is talking about not Lenin as Lenin in 1906 or
1920, but what a "Lenin" might be like today - someone who could take
Marxism and make a practical transformative politics out of it. I
suspect that were Lenin alive today, he'd look at your average
Leninist formation and say, "I am not a Leninist."
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CB: Besides what he would not be, what would he "be" and say about the concrete
situation in 2000 ? Seems to me he would say some of his analysis of capitalism in
the early part of the 1900's is still valid and in someways capitalism has changed.
Do you really think he would say capitalism in OECD countries has just completely and
utterly changed from some of the fundamentals he analyzed when he was alive ? That we
can no longer get important incites about capitalism today from some of the principles
he developed ?
