Re: [Marxism] John Molyneux on party democracy

2009-10-28 Thread Marla Vijaya kumar
He is an interesting article on “Democratic Centralism” by Prof. Javeed Alam. An active debate is underway in the Indian Left on the relevance of so-called ‘principles of party discipline’ which were attributed to Lenin. Lenin’s Democratic Centralism has to be understood in the proper historical c

Re: [Marxism] John Molyneux on party democracy

2009-10-27 Thread Les Schaffer
Rosa L meant to send this link that works: http://anti-dialectics.co.uk/page%2009_02.htm Les YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.

Re: [Marxism] John Molyneux on party democracy

2009-10-27 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
Louis, I haven't read your article so I'm not sure if you mentioned the context that Molyneux's article is being written in. Molyneux is a strong voice in the SWP attacking the (in my opinion, wrongheaded) no-platform policy BNP policy. The few months before the SWP conference (now) are apparentl