Re: [Marxism] Can capitalism survive?

[Jim Farmelant <farmelantj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:18:32 -0400 "S. Artesian"
<sartesian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Nope, the "elite" did not lead them to victory in Russia.  After the 
> July 
> days, when the Lenin was in hiding, it was the work of the Bolshevik 
> rank 
> and file that slowly undermined the Menshevik leadership in the 
> soviets, and 
> which was so essential in turning back Kornilov, and bringing the 
> Bolshevik 
> leadership to power.  It's just not the case that the "elite" of 
> Russia, 
> became the "elite" of the Bolsheviks, or even that the "elite" of 
> the 
> Bolsheviks made the revolution.   It was the class that made the 
> revolution, 
> and that drew to itself the "best elements" of the petty 
> bourgeoisie.
> 

"Finally, in times when the class struggle nears the decisive hour, 
the progress of dissolution going on within the ruling class, in fact 
within the whole range of old society, assumes such a violent, glaring 
character, that a small section of the ruling class cuts itself adrift, 
and joins the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its
hands. 
Just as, therefore, at an earlier period, a section of the nobility went
over 
to the bourgeoisie, so now a portion of the bourgeoisie goes over to the 
proletariat, and in particular, a portion of the bourgeois ideologists, 
who have raised themselves to the level of comprehending theoretically 
the historical movement as a whole." 
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