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[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sebastian Budgen wrote:

>It will be published next year by Duke UP in the book collecting
>together the papers from the Essen conference on Lenin.

Interesting. I made a presentation at this conference - which the
lead organizer, Slavoj Zizek, described as the only truly Leninist
one, because it was so distant from the literal Lenin - but evidently
it's not included in the collection. Too journalistic? Too unfriendly?

Shortly after the conference, Zizek told me "They hate you." When I
asked who "they" were, he said, "Callinicos and Budgen." I guess they
do.

Anyway, the talk is at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Lenin.html>.

Doug

PS: Most of the papers were pretty dull, so save your money and skip
this collection. And out of 17 presenters, 16 were men (if you don't
count the woman who read Badiou's paper for him).


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