Re: Foundations of Leninism

[Mauro junior <mauro.jr@xxxxxx>]

At 01.05 11/12/95 -0500, Barkely Rosser wrote:

>     1)  Did Stalin follow Lenin accurately?  Yes, as near
>as I can tell.  _Foundations of Leninism_ (FOL) quotes
>extensively and accurately from Lenin.  The two areas where
>I had the most question were in Stalin's assertion that the
>state must be the instrument of the dictatorship of the
>proletariat and in his assertion of the necessity for absolute
>unity in the party....

Mauro jr:
B.R., this is not an academic question to be solved through esegesis.
Of course, Foundations of Leninisnm by Stalin is an accurate esegesi of
Lenin's writings for justifying=20
1. his own rule
2. the substantial changes in the russian situation, where the soviet power
(substance and form of the proletarian dictatorship) had finished and been
substitu=ECted by party's dictatorship (upon the proletariat).
A material, social and political change have occured (I'd say a
counter-revolution started) independently from the ideological forms
undertaken. If we are able to analyze the material changes we'll be able to
grasp the core of the problem: leninism is the theory of the revolution,
stalinism is the ideology of the counter-revolution.=20
And let aside the phrases, the sentences, and look at the politics: between
Lenin (1905-1921) and Stalin (1925-1953) a class barrier.

Mauro Junior
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