Jim Devine:
>In fact, I think that Lenin did a lot of thinking about how socialism
should be organized,
>in his STATE AND REVOLUTION. I'm sure this attitude was shared by other
Bolsheviks,
>especially as they found that power was in their hands.
Yes, Lenin did a lot of thinking about how socialism should be organized
after 1917 because he was trying to run a socialist government. I don't
think such talk among people like us does very much good. It is much better
to figure out how to deal with immediate questions such as deregulation,
the stock market, IMF austerity, etc. At least on questions such as these,
we can exchange useful information. On the question of how to organize
socialism, I'd think I'd prefer to discuss whether people will engage in
sports after socialism. My old pal Derrick Morrison used to love to provoke
people in SWP headquarters on a saturday afternoon by saying that under
socialism, nobody would compete at baseball, etc. We also used to discuss
how children would be reared. I frequently stated that it would be done by
professionals with no blood ties to the kids. Nothing could have been worse
than the bourgeois family. Ah, the 1960s!
Louis Proyect
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