Hi dave, thanks for your lengthy response, even if you don't believe you represent the party's center. If you admit that communism was impossible for Russia...
Thank you! That's just the kind of material I'm interested in... but didn't know where to look. I guess definitive figures of surplus food destruction aren't...
Hi Adam ... materialists". ... term in ... reality". It ... these days ... Aristotle and the ... No,this is just plain wrong. I dont know where you get your ...
... From: "Joel Rosenblum" <moyshekapoyre@...> To: <WSM_Forum@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 10:31 PM Subject: Re: [WSM_Forum] Re: If...
Julian Vein
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Jan 1, 2007 1:54 pm
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Hi Joel You said that on war; "They are the result of the working classes being ignorant of their own material interests to the point of joining their own...
... Workers in russia were not ignorant about the problems that were facing them at all. The fact that they set up soviets and factory comittess proves it. ......
Dave Balmer's observation that there have been a number of discussions recently regarding whether socialism could be a moneyless society or would require some...
Centralism or Liquidationism? `and Comrade Lenin transformed the modest Council into an all powerful Committee of Public Safety, in order to take on himself...
Robin, I still say that to call Marxian socialists like us "metaphysical" is an insult, calculated or not (and I'd like to think it was not calculated but ...
Robin, I'm afraid there's something else I can't let you get away with. In a message before the break (message 31576 of 21 December) you wrote: "it is entirely...
Hi guys In E H carrs The Boshevik Revolution, part one, chapter two he says that the last chapter of Trotsky's `Our Political Tasks' was called `The...
The foundation for the dictatorship of the new rulers over the proletariat were laid down by Trotsky and Lenin during the first years after the Bolshevik took...
... is an ... calculated but ... please ... Adam, Firstly, I think you are being a bit paranoid here. Why do you keep on insisting that the term "metaphysical...
Yes its the bit where it talks about other historians effectively having adopted the materialist analysis of history as well. I dont have a copy of the...
I have read the pamphlets several times and it does not mention that idea, even more it would be a philosophical contradiction for the whole idea developed in...
I'm suspect this sort of discussion is going to put off more people than the SPGB's stance on religion! Julian Vein ... From: "robbo203" <robbo203@...>...
Julian Vein
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Jan 2, 2007 6:21 pm
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This discussion is not new either, and their ideas are not new either, I have seen the same discussions in many others parties and I have seen splits based on...
... That is true, however what I mean is that the working class is duped into supporting the ruling class in whatever they claim as the right thing to do -...
The economic statistic and the statistic of prisons presented by the ruling class of Cuba, they are all based on lies, they are the same statistic presented by...
Hi Marcos Well, prompted by your post I thought i had better scout around for the pamphlet in question otherwise I would hear no end of claims that I was just...
Hi Joel On your point; `So then it is worth taking over the state in order to increase freedoms - is that what you are saying? Or would the WSP consider any...
... than the ... I dont agree and the fact that it comes up time and time again suggests there is quite an important issue. It is also being discussed on the ...
Pannekoek effectively shown that Lenin's materialism was a bourgeois materialism and not fit for the workers movement in his "Lenin as Philosopher." jim Marcos...
I had a Marxist professor who taught that Historical Materialism as it relates to religion applies only to religous institutions like the Church and not to the...
... From: "robbo203" <robbo203@...> To: <WSM_Forum@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:02 PM Subject: [WSM_Forum] Re: What kind of...
Julian Vein
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Jan 3, 2007 12:23 am
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Can you imagine ? If Lenin main philosophical work used by all the Vanguard Party of the world, and it was the philosophical foundation for all the Leninist...
Some professors are defender of the bourgoise ideology and some of them call themselves Marxist, all the bolshevik leaders called themselves marxists and ...
So an Egyptian pagan who went to temple and made sacrifice in 600 BCE had one foot in the capitialist camp? jim Marcos Colome <UPRalmamater@...> wrote: ...