03-19-2019, 12:45 PM
(03-19-2019, 12:19 PM)Dill Wrote: PS In post #94when you use the term "classical Marxism" I assume you are refering to what is sometimes called "orthodox Marxism" or "marxism-Lenism." From 1848 on, Marx himself thought that the proletariat could acquire state power through the vote as well as through revolution, despite his later critiques of reformism. The idea of a vanguard party which seizes power and maintains a functioning core of the bourgeois state to bridge the gap between socialism and communism--that's all Lenin.
Interessant. I was unaware that Marx thought that way. I knew that was one of the splits (hence the emergence of social democrats), but I did not know that Marx himself had said that was a possibility.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
