Kautsky vs. Luxemburg

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[was: Re: [PEN-L:9668] Re: US Consumer Confidence index surges]

Yoshie wrote:
> It seems to me that both Kautsky's "evolutionary socialism" & Luxemburg's
> theory of imperialism have been incorrect, though Kautsky's is more
> fundamentally wrong than Luxemburg's (if it makes sense to evaluate
> degrees of errors).

yes it does make sense to evaluate degrees of error, since it's better than
the either/or thinking we sometimes see on pen-l.

Better than quantifying matters, though, would be to try to decide who was
right on each specific issue, whose theory was right and whose was wrong in
which specific way, etc. There might be -- though there often isn't -- room
for a synthesis of the right parts of the different thinkers' positions and
theories.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine