Trotsky was very smart.
So why did Stalin outsmart him in the struggle for power?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/10/00 05:29PM
I wrote:
I don't think the issue of democracy should be separated from the class
nature of the state. At least as I understand Marx, he believed that the
proletariat would be a different kind of ruling class than previous ruling
classes, that its
I wrote:
BTW, a friend (an expert on Soviet agriculture and politics) who spent a
year in the USSR in 1977 or so reported that Soviet academics were
expected to quote from Lenin in all articles (including articles on soil
chemistry). But they weren't supposed to quote from THE STATE AND
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/11/00 12:15PM
I wrote:
BTW, a friend (an expert on Soviet agriculture and politics) who spent a
year in the USSR in 1977 or so reported that Soviet academics were
expected to quote from Lenin in all articles (including articles on soil
chemistry). But they
Jim Devine:
I don't think the issue of democracy should be separated from the class
nature of the state. At least as I understand Marx, he believed that the
proletariat would be a different kind of ruling class than previous ruling
classes, that its rule would have to be democratic.
Yes,
Jim Devine wrote:
I don't think the issue of democracy should be separated from the class
nature of the state. At least as I understand Marx, he believed that the
proletariat would be a different kind of ruling class than previous ruling
classes, that its rule would have to be democratic.
At 06:16 PM 05/10/2000 -0400, you wrote:
"A collapse of the Soviet regime would lead inevitably to the collapse of
the planned economy, and thus to the abolition of state property. The bond
of compulsion between the trusts and the factories within them would fall
away. The more successful
I wrote:
I don't think the issue of democracy should be separated from the class
nature of the state. At least as I understand Marx, he believed that the
proletariat would be a different kind of ruling class than previous ruling
classes, that its rule would have to be democratic.
Charles Brown
I did *not* misunderstand what you wrote. You just threw ideas without
explaining them. that is why, your post is open to misinterpretation. I
would like to see the quotes to know how Marx "anticipates"
Stalinism...as a person partially trained in economic history, it seems
to me a very
At 03:13 PM 5/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
Jim Devine:
And we should trust a Communist Party with a monopoly of political power?
Louis, didn't you have some troubles a few years ago with the self-styled
Leninists of the SWP? doesn't that suggest some lessons about giving power
over to a minority?
... The argument that Marx anticipated Stalinism is completely a
historical statement, made out of context, which pays attention to "ideas"
rather than to circumstances of Stalin's Russia. Projecting Marx onto
Stalin or vice versa is an idealist reading of
history. Ideas should be judged vis
I wrote:
I don't think the issue of democracy should be separated from the class
nature of the state. At least as I understand Marx, he believed that the
proletariat would be a different kind of ruling class than previous ruling
classes, that its rule would have to be democratic.
Louis
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