Re: Luxemburge [was: Welcoming Stan Goff Out of Marxism]

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/3/06, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> --- Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > All? You mean those debates between Rosa Luxemburg
> > and Edward
> > Bernstein didn't happen?
>
> But Rosa Luxemburg was a marginal figure to the
> mainstream of Social Democracy!

what?? she may not have had a mass following (the way Kautsky did) but
she was important for people like Lenin or Kautsky to argue against.
(Did Edward B have a mass following outside of the party apparatus?)
Further, there's nothing that indicates that rank-and-file people in
the German Social Democratic Party agreed with Kautsky. Further, K
himself was better tha the stereotype.
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Jim Devine / "Because things are the way they are, things will not
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