There is only one place in Lenin's writings where he specifically describes
what a "vanguard" means. It is the section "The Working Class as Vanguard
Fighter for Democracy" in "What is To Be Done". The notion of a vanguard
emerges out of Lenin's struggle with the "Economists", *not* the
Michael Hoover:
Volume 13 of Lenin's *Collected Works* (in English, Moscow: Foreign
Languages Publishing House) includes a piece entitled "Preface to the
Collection 'Twelve Years'" written in 1907 in which L warns against
taking *What is To Be Done* out of context...he maintains that it was
Here is a village idiot story that, IMO, nicely summarizes the kind of
thinking nowadays popular among libertarians, rat-choice sociologists and
neo-classical economists.
A village idiot saw a woman plucking geese. Nonplussed, he asked the woman
"What are you doing?" "I'm plucking geese" the
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Louis
Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Heartfield:
In Particular Marx and Engels both considered native American society
backward technologically and morally, as the blood-ties of kinship
groups (gens) stifled individual personality.
I think at this point we
At 01:25 PM 12/31/97 -0800, Tom Walker wrote:
The thing that interests me about the idea of a revolutionary vanguard is
its shameless romanticism. Whatever else Leon Trotsky was, he cut a
strikingly romantic figure -- poet, prophet, soldier, exile, martyr. Think
of a transcendent persona and it
At 03:53 PM 12/31/97 -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
I think that the whole issue of whether or not we need vanguards boils down
to how those vanguards act.
Early on (1905?), old Leon T. launched a critique of Lenin for being
"substitutionist." (See, e.g., Deutscher, THE PROPHET ARMED.) The critique
Heartfield:
In Particular Marx and Engels both considered native American society
backward technologically and morally, as the blood-ties of kinship
groups (gens) stifled individual personality.
I think at this point we understand what Heartfield means by "individual
personality". It has
This is a bit of a mess, because Louis is angry about something that
gets in the way of his thinking, but here goes:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Louis
Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Or was "ennobling" American Indians just a convenient fiction?
Isn't that what I said? Fictitious. Property
Heartfield:
This is a bit of a mess, because Louis is angry about something that
gets in the way of his thinking, but here goes:
James, it not a bit of a mess. Your post is a complete mess. You should be
aware that PEN-L is not the Spoons Lists. Over on the Spoons Lists you can
feel free to make
Robin Hahnel wrote,
But these differences are not what is usually meant by people worried
about the free rider problem in provision of public goods. They mean if
we leave it to the market for people to buy as much pollution reduction
or military defense as they want to, few if any will buy any
The Irish Times, Wednesday, December 31, 1997
WORLD REVIEW
Search for black gold
disturbs ancient gods
_
Michael
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 1998 09:57:46 -0500
From: James Packard Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: USA Today op-ed on Microsoft
The following is the text of Ralph Nader and James Love's 332 word op ed
in the January 2, 1998 issue of USA Today. The editorial board of
Pardon me for reposting. I should have mentioned in the subject line that
my message "ride free or die!" was a reply to the thread on utopias.
Robin Hahnel wrote,
But these differences are not what is usually meant by people worried
about the free rider problem in provision of public goods.
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Louis
Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Over here much more rigor is
necessary.
and then
It is the genocidal exploitation of Native Americans and African
slaves that made US capitalism possible.
I was unaware of the exploitation of Native Americans in the North.
Heartfield:
I was unaware of the exploitation of Native Americans in the North. One
might have thought that reservations and genocide made exploitation
impossible, but perhaps in your scientific rigour you have discovered
some new form of exploitation.
I am referring to the general sense of
Below is the gist of USA Today's editorial rebuttal of the Nader/Love
contentions. 4%, is that the right figure, someone, and is it relevant
where the effective issue is control of the Web?
And the Apple analogy, something beyond ironic in view of last summer's
shock MS bailout of Apple: is it
http://www.businessweek.com/premium/02/b3560225.htm
Economic Trends: Business Week 1/12/98
WHAT'S MOVING TODAY'S
ECONOMY?
Computer production explains a lot
To a large extent, arguments that the U.S. has entered a new era of
noninflationary robust growth have relied on the
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