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Not sure how I post to this. Hope this works:
Shane,
Why do you bother writing
besides heaping derision
and mockery on the peoples struggle in the manner of snide rich schoolboys and
their little intellectual games which shows, to borrow a phrase from Bob
Avakian, their utter rightism.
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:04:12 -0400
From: saboca...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Marxism
From: Ryan Neighbors rnei...@uark.edu
I'm new to the study of Marxist theory, so I was hoping some of you
could help me. I need to know (for a paper) a few Marxist theorists
who deal extensively with the ideas of war, pacifism, and/or
revolution. I'm primarily interested in the idea of
2009/10/23 Ryan Neighbors rnei...@uark.edu:
Hello,
I'm new to the study of Marxist theory, so I was hoping some of you
could help me. I need to know (for a paper) a few Marxist theorists
who deal extensively with the ideas of war, pacifism, and/or
revolution. I'm primarily interested in
Again, I think that's overstated. I think shifting global conditions were the
cause of the revolutionary upsurge ebbing, particularly the end of the Great
War which I don't think any correct-grandiose or not-program or personalities
of generalship would have overcome. Obviously the Comintern
First, proletarian democracy is not measured by, nor a product of,
voting. For it to be democratic, the rule of the proletariat has to be
based on the autonomous organs of the class power itself, in one word,
soviets with a small s. Soviets had ceased functioning in the USSR by what?
There is a really good (IMHO) take on totalitarianism and its uses in Robert
Paul Rewsch's *Utopia, Dystopia, and the Middle Class in George Orwell's
Nineteen Eighty-Four in boundary, *2 24: 1 1997, pp132-176. If I can get the
time somehow I will try and do a post on it.
regards
Gary
http://www.since1865.com/doc/19820227/sontag
This is a link to a symposium on Communism and the left held by the
Nation Magazine in 1998 that touches on these questions. It was in
response to Susan Sontag's claim:
All this is obvious, or almost, when one uses the word fascist to
describe the
ell me exactly where majority rule and democracy figured into the
events in the USSR after 1928, or even before...
Majority of what? Democracy where? The party, in an economy that was
characterized by Lenin as a petty-producer economy? In the 3rd
International?
That's the historical,
Dear Rachel,
Your difficulty in wrapping your mind around it may itself be a burst of
insight: the category totalitarian was Mussolinis term but adopted
specifically as a cold war weapon to put the three into the same bag. We can
compare ideologies or we can compare practices but they are not
Thank you to everyone for your help with my topic. It feels better knowing that
it wasn't just me thinking the topic was crazy. I've got a 97 in the class and
I really don't want to blow it with this final! Your insights got the hamsters
back on their wheels. I think I can find a way to pull
Consider the totalitarian ideologies - Fascism, Nazism, Communism. How
much were they products of driving forces of industrialization, science,
democratization, and Enlightenment thought, and how much were they departures
from those forces?
All the aboves are actaully ideologies brought
Note in the question that capitalism is the default and notably NOT
totalitarian. These are the sort of things peddled by various
conservative and neo-con education think-tanks.
ML
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