Re: [Marxism] Robert Brenner responds

["acpollack2@xxxxxxxx" <acpollack2@xxxxxxxx>]

I'll leave aside for now Bob's unbelievably contorted and confused misreading 
of 1920's Soviet history. I don't know what histories he's been reading but the 
picture he paints of the peasantry, and of the Bolshevik approaches to it, 
doesn't match anything I've read, and appears to be an anarchist-style attempt 
to moralize about the Bolshevik's "statism." More on that if people are 
interested.

But Bob also says: "Most of my stuff in Against the Current over the years has 
been against the statism and the forces that support it--the trade union 
bureaucracy, the Democratic Party/Jesse Jackson, social democracy, and 
Stalinism and identified with the self-organized working class."

On occasion, yes. But he's also periodically -- including as recently as the 
next-to-last issue of ATC -- joined with colleagues such as Joel Jordan to 
justify voting for Democrats. So much for "antistatism," whatever the hell that 
is.

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