This is off-topic, but since this is a GNU-Mailman mailing list and
since so many of the members belong to many discussion lists, this
should be a decent place to submit my question.
I subscribe to numerous yahoo groups, and even have two of my own. I
also subscribe to several Mailman mailing
No.
The withering away of the state is predicated upon a couple of things: the
withering away of the need for massive organized armed bodies of men
domestically and internationally; the destruction of the value relations and
the
resolution of class antagonism.
I was reluctant to
But Lenin wrote (in State and Revolution) that the withering away of
the state begins at the very instance when the proletariat (the armed
working class) takes power. The Commune-state is a state of a new
type. The soviet state, alas, though not strangled at birth by the
Ralph Dumain
I thought Proyect hated Sokal.
^
CB: I don't know about that.
I think he doesn't hold
much truck with post-modernism
^
The review is hardly brilliant but it is to the point.
I am sure Sokal got all his information about India from Meera Nanda,
who has written numerous
I would agree with Jim F that present day Russia is some form of state
capitalism.
On the nature of the former Soviet Union I think it was none of the
alternatives offered by Jim (and by Trotskyism in the post-war period). It
was a bureaucratic bourgeois state in which a surplus was extracted
Total idiocy, delusional nonsense, senseless gibberish, from first
word to last.
At 09:53 PM 2/22/2009, Charles Brown wrote:
I agree that these are the classical
Marxist-Leninist theory, definitions, schema
and order of the process, but
I'm thinking that actuality, actual
history, the concrete
Quantifying history and historical progression, all ways get me in trouble,
yet this stops no one from quantifying history. I believe that the American
state, as we know it is going to change at lightening speed, after a change in
the property relations.
What happens in America is very
Wandering thoughts and notes related to the tread.
From 1928 with Stalin's Industrialization of the Country speech and plan, to
his death in 1953, the polices of forced collectivization, rapid
industrialization and centralized planning through a series of five year plans
held
complete
Socialism means the abolition of classes. The dictatorship of the
proletariat has done all it could to abolish classes. But classes cannot be
abolished
at one stroke.
And classes still remain and will remain in the era of the dictatorship of
the proletariat. The dictatorship will become
