From: Exxon Valdez (exonvaldezz@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Jun 08 2004 - 22:19:53 BST
Hello,
I wouldn´t say that Chomsky >>champions Marxism.<< and he is definetly no supporter of Marxist-Leninism.
>>. . . In fact, Limbaugh's views are higher quality than Chomsky's. He
battles for freedom while Chomsky champions Marxism. . .<< Platt Holden
>>. . . Bakunin's warnings about the Red bureaucracy that would institute the worst of all despotic governments were long before Lenin, and were directed against the followers of Mr. Marx. There were, in fact, followers of many different kinds; Pannekoek, Luxembourg, Mattick and others are very far from Lenin, and their views often converge with elements of anarcho-syndicalism. Korsch and others wrote sympathetically of the anarchist revolution in Spain, in fact. There are continuities from Marx to Lenin, but there are also continuities to Marxists who were harshly critical of Lenin and Bolshevism. Teodor Shanin's work in the past years on Marx's later attitudes towards peasant revolution is also relevant here. I'm far from being a Marx scholar, and wouldn't venture any serious judgement on which of these continuities reflects the 'real Marx,' if there even can be an answer to that question. . .<< Noam Chomsky
Sincerely.
Vito
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