Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] To Socialism! How?

2010-03-23 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 3/23/2010 11:03:24 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, cb31...@gmail.com writes: CB; Strategy deals with the wide, the biggest context, the general. Strategy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy Comment I prefer Stalin's definition and both articles on Strategy and hold he

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] To Socialism! How?

2010-03-23 Thread c b
On 3/23/10, waistli...@aol.com waistli...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 3/23/2010 11:03:24 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, cb31...@gmail.com writes: CB; Strategy deals with the wide, the biggest context, the general. Strategy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy Comment I prefer

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] To Socialism! How?

2010-03-23 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 3/23/2010 11:36:40 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, cb31...@gmail.com writes: CB; What are more of the specifics of Stalin's approach ? Reply Check out his articles in the 1920's on strategy and tactic of Russian communist and Concerning the question of strategy and

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] To Socialism! How?

2010-03-23 Thread c b
On 3/23/10, waistli...@aol.com waistli...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 3/23/2010 11:36:40 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, cb31...@gmail.com writes: CB; What are more of the specifics of Stalin's approach ? Reply Check out his articles in the 1920's on strategy and tactic of Russian

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] To Socialism! How?

2010-03-23 Thread CeJ
RD: It seems everybody these days, however, is engaged in attempts to characterize the capitalist system today and a perspective to struggle beyond it. It seems to me though that everybody is doing so in order to admonish capitalists and their managers to do better capitalism, etc. blah blah.

[Marxism-Thaxis] To Socialism! How?

2010-03-22 Thread c b
To Socialism! How? By Daniel Rubin How do we go from where we are to socialism? Not an easy question and there is more than one contradictory approach on the left and even in and around our Party. There is much in Marxist theory and methodology to help give us a general approach, while the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] To Socialism! How?

2010-03-22 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 3/22/2010 8:13:42 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, _cb31...@gmail.com_ (mailto:cb31...@gmail.com) writes: Strategy deals with the qualitative turns in the balance of forces that it is necessary to seek and the class and social forces and political trends and social movements

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] To Socialism! How?

2010-03-22 Thread Ralph Dumain
I'll offer a few suggestions nevertheless: ABOLITION: wage slavery is a metaphor. Do you really want to include this under this heading? AMERICAN REVOLUTION; Why do you say that the conclusion of the Vietnam War is the end of the epoch of national liberation? POPULISM: Some more relevant