[Marxism] Marxism-list: Lenin and Trotsky experts failed challenge

[Steve Masterson <steve4masterson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Comrades, 
   
  Not one of the 3,000+ members on the three Marxist/socialist
  lists I put the challenge to has come up with any quotes from
  Lenin or Trotsky, of them really understanding the essence of
  Karl Marx's method. I did not expect anyone to come up with
  the Trotsky or Lenin quotes. I was actually checking to see if
  anyone had read the writings of the last decade of Cyril Smith,
  who understands Marx's essential driving force and politics,
  of which human development in resistance and revolution
  against capitalism is key.
  
On this Marxism list, I got one other response after frenzied
dozens of other false attempts and evasions, from another guy
  who does understand the essential Marx, and that was
  Michael Lebowitz, who wrote the Deutcher award book,
  'Beyond Capital'. Glad to discover you Michael!
   
  Michael Lebowitz, I have just researched, is in Venezuela 
  doing some very important work at present around workers
  control of factories and the revolutionary students movement.
   
  Again, he couldn't come up with any quotes from Lenin or
  Trotsky, either ? only from himself. I suggest anyone who
  wants to understand Marx, just Google these two comrades
  and get reading.
   
  I will start readers off with two articles. The first by Cyril Smith
  written in 1996,
  ?How can humanity make itself what it is in essence??
   
  
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-cyril/works/millenni/smith3.htm
   
  Michael Lebowitz has also written similar material on the
  real Marx. However, I have  found a most amazing article
  from last October that puts into practice the real Marx on
  the highest level of conscious revolutionary practice I have
  come across in my life. 
   
  http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/lebowitz241005.html
   
  Michael has moved from Canada to Venezuela, to situate
  himself at a key place at a key juncture in history.
  He is talking a revolutionary humanist language, in the
  language workers will understand from their own experiences,
  based not on Lenin or Trotsky, but directly on Marx himself.
   
  Indeed, as Cyril and Michael state, the job is to go beyond
  Marx and theoretically complete Marx?s own unfinished 
  work ? essentially as a revolutionary practice which aids
  human/worker self-development through workers? control,
  resistance and revolution.
  
Before I joined my first vanguard-elitist group nearly 30 years
  ago I used to read Marx and his human-developmental essence.
  Only in the last month am I only just beginning to re-read the real
  Marx once again - but on a new level ? it is very exciting.

For anyone who wants to read my original challenge to this list
  go to:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/message/33253

comradely regards
   
  - Steve

                
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