Re: inevitability

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> j.bendien@xxxxxxxxxx 12/30/00 04:54PM >>>
Charles, I know what I wrote, and what you wrote. I realise that the
Stalinist world view can be propped up with selective quotation from Marx,
and it is precisely in the nature of the Stalinist mind to do that.

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CB: No , it is just that you didn't remember or realize that what you were 
calling a
Stalinist idea was not a Stalinist idea , but an idea of Marx and Engels. So, 
you
can't cover up that in using "Stalinist" as a sort of knee jerk and namecalling 
way to
through dirt on an idea, you inadvertently called a fundamental and famous 
Marxist
idea a Stalinist idea, which is sort of plagerism for Stalin, since he didn't
originate the idea, but merely repeated it. It is not an issue of propping up 
Stalin's
ideas but your realizing that you disgree with Marx and Engels on the issue 
being
discussed: the "inevitability of the transition from capitalism to socialism. 
Forget
Stalin, and deal with Marx and Engels