Date sent: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:10:16 -0400
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From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [L-I] What to do if the KLA and NATO fight
Louis,
I do not think one-liners like this advance the discussion at
Who has ever claimed that ideological exposure from the sidelines of the class
struggle is enough? Of course the Bolsheviks did take an active and leading
part in the day to day class struggle, but they were not economists, and they
knew that consciousness was the key to a proletarian
Who has ever claimed that ideological exposure from the sidelines of the
class
struggle is enough? Of course the Bolsheviks did take an active and leading
part in the day to day class struggle, but they were not economists, and
they
knew that consciousness was the key to a proletarian
Louis Proyect:
What you call consciousness I regard as socialist ideology. In
point of fact, revolutions generally take place in advance of acceptance
of
socialist ideology by the great majority.
Louis,
I dont think that fact is contested at all.
The common misconception of
Marxists
I dont want to speculate much about the 'ifs' in history, but I doubt there
would have been an October uprising without thr previous split of Bolsheviks
and Mensheviks. By the same token I think its the tragedy of the German
revolution that the forces around Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
