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The Lenin Legend
Mattick, Paul
http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/mattick-paul/1935/lenin-legend.htmhttp://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1935/lenin-legend.htm Publisher: International Council Correspondence Year Published: 1935 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX8036 For Lenin, socialism was in the last instance merely a kind of state-capitalism. Abstract: The power, and nothing but the power: it is to this that the whole political wisdom of Lenin finally reduces. The fact that the paths along which it is attained, the means which lead to it, determine in their turn the manner in which that power is applied, was a matter with which he had very little concern. Socialism, to him, was in the last instance merely a kind of state-capitalism, after the "model of the German postal service." And this state capitalism he overtook on his way, for in fact there was nothing else to be overtaken. It was merely a question of who was to be the beneficiary of the state capitalism. Subject Headings |