[PEN-L:7563] Re: Re: nationalism -was Re: Liquidated

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

rc-am wrote:

> perhaps one must first decide whether one is a marxist or a leninist?

If all you want to do is to spin academic reveries I suppose this
opposition works. But if you are interested in the process of actually
building a working class opposition to capital, then Marxism = Leninism
(though I agree with Lou Proyect neither = Marxism-Leninism). To
reject Lenin in such a flat way is quite simply to opt for the eternal
rule of capital, to reduce Marx to an interesting academic philosopher.

This is not an argument but a statement of a standpoint, but neither
is Angela's post an argument.

Carrol