Re: AUT: Re: what is to be done with what is to be done? Survival

[Peter van Heusden <pvh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sebastian Budgen wrote:

> Well, you'll be able to judge when the volume comes out, but the other
> papers were generally relatively scholarly attempts to engage at a
> greater level of detail with one or other particular element of
> Lenin's thought and relate this to contemporary problems. Doug's
> piece, whatever its merits, does not attempt to do this, in the view
> of the editors (who include Slavoj, by the way).
>
> However, Doug, you will no doubt throw this back in my face, but were
> you interested in writing a new piece that, for example, examined
> Lenin's writings on finance capitalism, state capitalism and so forth,
> and related them, even if very critically, to contemporary issues,
> that would be most welcome.
>
But the whole point of Doug's piece was that economics that Lenin based
his theory of imperialism on *don't* relate to contemporary issues! So
are you saying that the only acceptable papers in your volume are ones
that agree with Lenin?

Peter



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