Re: [Marxism] RE: The Stalinists and the United Front By James Cannonand its relevance.

[Brian Shannon <brian_shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > I find it sad that so many marxists continue to daydream in the
> > antique
> > and totally irrelevant religious debate between stalinists (who no
> > longer exist) and trotskyists (who no longer exist). Even those
> > who call
> > themselves stalinists are not, nor are those who call themselves
> > trotskyists, trotskyists. One can no more belong to those isms
> > than one
> > can take a position on Robespierre vs Danton, or Caesar vs Cicero.
> >
> > Carrol


I think that almost everyone agrees with you on this. However,
sometimes it is necessary to clean out your room or rooms or entire
house in order to lay out what you really need for the future. When
doing that, some decisions have to be made and in my case it is
harder and harder to make those decisions. I open up one box, decide
that I am going to throw the whole thing out and then save half of it.

I read Cannon one way 40 years ago; I see more now.

Besides, not only are Stalin, Trotsky, Mao, Lenin, Marx, Engels et al
still important, so are Aristotle, Rousseau, Locke, and John Stuart
Mill. What Hamilton and Madison really said about the American
Revolution and the American Constitution and how all of its
legitimacy derived from "We, the people" can also be re-absorbed and
re-presented.

Brian Shannon



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