Re: AUT: Re: Henwood and Lenin

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Harry M. Cleaver wrote:

>Forgetting the Leninist people, it would be nice to have a version of your
>paper focused on the first part: how the world no longer works exactly the
>way Lenin thought it did. I'd like to have it for my students. I might
>just use, or excerpt, what you have already written.

That would be an interesting exercise but I'm not sure what purpose
it would serve, other than a purely scholastic one. I still don't
know what it means to be a Leninist in an OECD country in the 21st
century, and I don't see what relevance his writings have to
contemporary politics. With Marx, there's something fresh and
relevant on almost every page; Lenin's stuff reads like a series of
pamphlets, written for particular moments that have long passed.

Doug


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