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Charles Brown wrote:
>Would the following be the sum and substance of your look at
>"Lenin's style of politics " ? No mention of the class struggle ,
>working class, capitalism ?
That's not specifically "Leninist." That's Marxist, in the broad
sense, and even some non-Marxists would give priority to class and
class struggle. As for "capitalism," Forbes uses that word all the
time.
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CB: Leninists do not claim that Leninism is different from Marxism. Leninism is
Marxism-plus, how to be a Marxist when some aspects of the concrete earthly situation
has changed from the specific period in which Marx and Engels lived ( Concrete
analysis of the concrete situation). One specific change was the shift from the period
when "free competition" prevailed to the period of monopoly. But most fundamentals
remain the same. Most of Leninism is application of Marxist fundamentals in a changed
or specific historical situation. And then it is the success of Marxist theory in
practice.
Leninism 2001 would be how to be a Marxist when the concrete earthly situation has
changed even some from 1900.
Of course the difference between Leninism and Forbes ideology is that they have
opposite positions on the class struggle, so that is sort of a "ha ha " comment.
Anyway, I was not talking about who uses the word "capitalism" , but why you would be
able to summarize "Lenin Essen" without mentioning that one of his main political
issues was overthrowing capitalism.
