Re: Query to Tom O'Lincoln on state capitalism

["Tom O'Lincoln" <red_sites@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Xxxx

Yes I know the pamphlet, but haven't looked at it in over ten years. It's
also on the web in German -- fame at last!

I remember thinking I couldn't quite understand the logic of their theory.
They are a very loopy crowd! Although Sy Landy, who gave me a copy of the
article on a visit to Australia in the last eighties, was very pleasant when
we met.

I don't have the time to plow through it again,  - it's so long -- but if
you are interested in raising specific questions, here or by private e-mail,
feel free.


>From: Xxxx Xxxxxx <xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: "marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Query to Tom O'Lincoln on state capitalism
>Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:11:06 -0400
>
>Hi,
>
>A few months ago I recieved a think, photocopied pamphlet from the 1980s
>by Walter Dahl called "The Unresolved Contradictions of Tony Cliff: A
>review of Tom O'Lincoln's pamphlet 'State Capitalism and Marxist
>Thoery'" It's put out by a group called the League for a Revolutionary
>Party and its Australian affiliate Workers Revolution. As far as I can
>figure they are a group that splintered off from the IS in the 1970s and
>have partly moved towards "Orthodox Trotskyism" while retaining a
>modified version of the theory of state capitalism and an utter contempt
>for Cliff and the various IS groups. Anyway, the pamphlet raises
>problems with Cliff's version of state capitalism and I'm wondering what
>your response to it is (or was).
>
>Thanks,
>
>Xxxx
>

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