Re: [Marxism] Mike Whitney interview with Robert Pollin

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Walter Lippmann wrote:
> (This is a very long and interesting interview, with much food for
> thought. To me, the most important single idea is the absurdity of 
> tryinginG, 150 years later, to suck contemporary political answers
> out of the writings of Marx, Engels and Lenin from an entirely
> different social, political, economical and technological era.
> 
> 

It depends on what you mean by answers. There are some things in Marx, 
Engels and Lenin that will never be outdated--like the theory of the 
state, the mode of production, the nature of classes, etc. We need to 
grasp the theory and produce analyses that are the contemporary analogue 
of what Marx was trying to explain, for example, in 18th Brumaire. In 
the 18th Brumaire, Marx developed the idea of a Bonapartist state which 
is actually quite useful in understanding somebody like Ahmadinejad.

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