Re: Democratic centralism: myth and reality

[Ed George <edgeorge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Fidler wrote:

'But I can't help reminding you of your advice only a few days ago
(October 7):

'>> I would urge subscribers not to get sidetracked into a discussion of
what the Bolsheviks did or did not do right. <<'

But Louis clarified that the same day like this:

'I personally don't object to your violating your own guideline.I have
no intention of  banning discussion on Bolshevik policy. [...] We want
to compare our  approaches to what worked or did not work in the past.
We are students of  revolutionary history. What I object to is a kind of
crude reductionism  which makes one's position on various intra-party
struggles of the past a  litmus test. [...]'

Which is exactly right from where I'm sitting.

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