Re: [Marxism] Re: Should socialists call for democratic structural change?

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Carlos A. Rivera wrote:
> I agree. Radical democratic reforms are always the first salvos of any
> communist program. I think R.R. is being left-deviationist in this sense.

A suggestion to Carlos and anybody else similarly inclined. We should
avoid jargon like "deviationist" here. It is counter-productive. It sounds
too much like the epithets hurled about in sectarian circles of the 1960s
and 70s. Marxmail is intended to break with that culture. When I first
heard the term coming around the radical movement in that period, I was
struck by how much the term suggested "deviant", which I had run across in
reading books on abnormal psychology in college.

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