Doug Henwood wrote:
When I interviewed Naomi Klein, who spent most of the past year in
Argentina, she said that there were so many sectarian Trot parties
trying to tell the spontaneous mass assemblies what to do that they
turned lots of people off from politics. Instead of following the
vanguard in
>All Argentina needs is a few latter-day Lenins who can write a "What is to be Done"
>updated for the current
struggle.<
do you think that writing a book can have that big an effect?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
ine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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> do you think that writing a book can have that big an effect?
Whether or not a book has a "big effect", depends I think on numerous
factors, and a publisher would affirm this:
- its content and form
- who wrote it
- the life and doings of the author
- the specific context it is written in, or w
Devine, James wrote:
do you think that writing a book can have that big an effect?
When I interviewed Naomi Klein, who spent most of the past year in
Argentina, she said that there were so many sectarian Trot parties
trying to tell the spontaneous mass assemblies what to do that they
turned lots o
This is a snippet from a dialog between Z Magazine publisher Michael
Albert and Argentine radical Ezequiel Adamovsky at:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=41&ItemID=3995.
The more I read about Argentina, the more it appears that the political
crisis on the left stems from the fa
itten, and for no other reason."
J.
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> my feeling is that for a book to have
If there were a simple formula for making revolution, they would be more
frequent. Many of the great revolutions would have seemed to be
relatively unlikely early on. Castro began with a bungled raid.
Neither Lenin nor Mao had widespread support early in their
revolutionary activities.
My own se
