RE: [Marxism] Traveling with Chairman Avakian

[Adam Levenstein <cleon42@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Rosa RL <rosarl65@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Fair enough.. An explination is due :)
>
> The Russian empire, a large multinational state (with
> dozens of nationalities), gave rise to a single
> multinational revolutionary party, called the
> Bolsheviks, led by Lenin.

Not true. The Bolsheviki were not a party. They were a wing of a larger
party, the RSDLP.

> There was an opposing line
> called the bundist who wanted separate socialist
> parties for each national grouping and if that
> opposing line had won out  -- it is hard to imagine a
> revolution would have happed.

Ah, THAT Bund, the Jewish Labor Bund. Not German, but Yiddish.

You might want to research this a little, because your summary of the
Bund's position and Lenin's are both wrong.


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