From owner-marxism-international  Fri Apr 11 06:30:46 1997
Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970411073413.00688e5c@mail.algonet.se>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 12:29:28 +0200
From: Robert Malecki <malecki@algonet.se>
Subject: Re: M-I: PANIC LEFT-7

At 00:15 1997-04-11 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 97-04-10 17:09:43 EDT, ajsahay@mailbox.syr.edu (Amrohini
>J. Sahay) writes:
>
><< We
> believe in the Leninist principle of intervention in the "consciousness"
> of the "people" from its "outside"  >>
>
>how to parse this if one is a socialist and believes in democracy in any
>recognizable sense of that concept ...
>
>isnt this a good representation of what is wrong with a stalinist view of
>leftism ? lenin becomes the rationalizer of the Leader principle on the left,
>the antithesis of democracy. how can this viewpoint lead one to viewing
>workers as anything other than objects, instruments, something to be pushed
>and pulled and manipulated ? and it is just this "what is to be done"
>travesty of leninism which leads directly to purge trials and real violence.

Hi Utica,

Are you not doing the exact same think of "overkill" that our Buffalo
"Marxists" are doing with there "cyber facism"?

Lenin's "What is to be Done" had to do with a all Russian newspaper and not
the Moscow trials...

Linking Stalinism to Lenin as the original crime is both wrong and
dangerous. And the only *real* goal of "democracy" I am really interested
in is the Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat..

Warm Regards
Bob malecki


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