Re: [Marxism] PRC: The Left of the CPC critiques capitalist restorationists

[Walter Lippmann <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What Stalin wrote in 1951 has somewhere between little and zero
bearing on what is happing in China over half a century later.
Using heavy-handed rhetoric to beat ones enemies over the head
wasn't unique to Stalin. Occasionally even in our civilized
circles, some engage in the occasional polemical exaggeration
to try to make a point in discussion.


Walter Lippmann
Los Angeles, California 
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It has nothing to do with being "Chinese". It is instead the standard 
discourse of Stalinism, which makes scholastic use of the Marxist 
classics to beat one's enemies over the head with. Just take a look 
at Joseph Stalin's 1951 "Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR"
if you want to find the inspiration for the article that Chandan 
linked to. 
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I am not Chinese. I am a Jew, just like Karl Marx was ethnically. 
Us Jews like to get our big noses in other's peoples business. 
It is genetic, I'm afraid.
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No, but I plan to visit Chinatown tomorrow with my lovely wife. They
have excellent fruit and vegetable stands down there.
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And thanks for elevating the conversation, Charles. I haven't heard
such a stupid rant since the bad old days of Shining Path on the
Marxism list. It reminds me of how far we've come.


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     WALTER LIPPMANN
     Los Angeles, California
     Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
     "Cuba - Un ParaÃso bajo el bloqueo"
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