Re: [Marxism] Challenge to Lenin & Trotsky experts

["james daly" <james.irldaly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Steve Masterson" <steve4masterson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:06 PM
Subject: [Marxism] Challenge to Lenin & Trotsky experts

PS.
Another obvious disaster arising from the idea of Marxism as mechanistic 
science was stage-ism, the theory that every country had to go through the 
same processes as Britain had historically gone through.  As a result, 
Russian Marxists in 1891 refused to help the dying victims of a politically 
instigated famine when there was no alternative employment, on the grounds 
that the peasantry had to become industrialised.
Tragedy: as for farce -- in 1978 "Official" Irish Marxists produced a 
pamphlet claiming that it was scientifically ascertainable that the historic 
task of Irish republicans was to help on the "Irish Industrial Revolution" 
by among other things getting Irish come-all-yous and *rural* soap operas 
taken off TV (which they infiltrated for the purpose).
Later, Marxist members of the Irish Parliament censured the *national* 
television station for not showing the wedding of Charles and Diana live all 
day.
As Minister for Communications, Conor Cruise O'Brien, who probably at the 
time would have affected to be influenced by Marxism, not only introduced 
anti-Republican political censorship, but in the 70s tried over a long 
period of debate to have the British channel BBC1 in its entirety made into 
the contemplated second national Irish television channel.
J. D. 



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