Re: Truth?

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** Reply to note from burgess@xxxxxxxxxxx Tue, 7 Oct 1997 14:38:38 -0700 (PDT)
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> I just happened to skim through Kevin Anderson's _Lenin, Hegel, and
> Western Marxism (U of Ill. Press, 1995) who argues Lenin's position in
> his 1908 Empirocriticism shifted by 1914 when he re-read Hegel to try to
> come to grips with Social Democracy's support for war. Thus the
> Philosphical Notebooks are Lenin's more mature view on such questions,
> and Andersons also tries to illustrate this in later debates like over
> trade unions. Anderson suggests Stalinism has upheld Lenin in 1908
> and suppressed his later and more nuanced, dialectical approach. Engels
> also gets a few boots.

Bill, I haven't seen the Anderson work (have others?), but it sounds
curious.  Why would Stalinism promote 1908 Lenin except as part of the
Lenin cult it wanted? just as it used Marx when useful.  Paul


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