Re: Feedback from Leo Panitch, plus my reply

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The operative phrase might be "modeled on." I don't know how much any
society would "model" a revolution on any previous exerience, any more
than the military would "model" a war on a previous one.  You would learn
from previous experience, and draw inspiration from it.

I confess that I only heard a bit of the tape.  I interview.  My
downloading failed after 15 minutes.

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 11:18:31PM +0100, Chris Burford wrote:
> At 2003-05-31 16:25 -0400, Louis Proyect wrote
>
> >I didn't say that you didn't believe in the centrality of the working
> >class. I only said that you thought that trying to make working class
> >revolutions modeled on October 1917 would backfire.
>
> Isn't that a fairly common position among activists and scholars in the
> Marxist tradition who favor a non-sectarian and non-dogmatic approach?
>
> Chris Burford

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