Yes, but that begs the question of what the Kautskyan SPD was all about. Or at least it leaves open the question of what Lenin thought the SPD was all about. It's only a guess but no doubt the Cliffites think it heresy to suggest that Lenin thought the SPD was right about much of anything.
On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, c b wrote: > Anyone who has read Lars Lih knows that the very _word_, "Leninism," is > false. A better description would be Marxism-Kautskyism-Lenin Thought. > That > is, Lenin produced no theory of any kind; he was not a theorist! He assumed > to the end of his life that Kautsky was the best interpreter of Marx. (When > he called Kautsky a _renegade_ he meant a renegade to his, Kautsky's, _own_ > theory. Lenin attempted to apply the theory he learned from Kautsky to the > concrete conditions of Czarist autocracy. He believed that the SPD > represented the ideal form of a revolutionary party and that the RSDLP > should follow that model as closely as was possible under the conditions of > the Czarist autocracy. "Leninism" is an invention of the Bobsey Twins, > Stalin & Trotsky. > > Carrol > > ^^^^^^ > CB: Lenin produced a theory of an imperialist stage of capitalist > development in _Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism_ ; and on > imperialism and monopoly capitalism, finance capitalism. He produced > theory of national liberation and colonialism ( Draft Theses on > National and Colonial Questions > :http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/jun/05.htm). His > theory that there could be a socialist revolution in Russia, a > semi-capitalist country with a tiny proletariat by an alliance of > proletarians and peasants was novel in Marxism. In _Leftwing: > Communism, an Infantile Disorder_ he points to certain lessons of the > Russian revolution that he thinks can be generalized beyond the > Russian experience. As a lawyer, he developed much theory of law in a > socialist society for the Soviet Constitution. > > Otherwise, as Carrol says, he was mainly a rigorous adherent to > classical Marxism as a guide to action in his concrete circumstance, > historical conjuncture. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Stephen Diamond Associate Professor of Law Santa Clara University School of Law Office: (408) 554-4813 Fax: (408) 868-9173
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