Comments on: Louis Proyect: The revolutionary democratic-dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry? Say what? https://johnriddell.com/2017/03/20/louis-proyect-the-revolutionary-democratic-dictatorship-of-the-proletariat-and-the-peasantry-say-what/ MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY Thu, 13 Apr 2017 05:08:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.10 By: Praxis https://johnriddell.com/2017/03/20/louis-proyect-the-revolutionary-democratic-dictatorship-of-the-proletariat-and-the-peasantry-say-what/#comment-7397 Thu, 13 Apr 2017 05:08:17 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=3547#comment-7397 In reply to Roberto DeLeon.

“Those of the Menshevik-Stalinist tendencies who argue for a block of states (The Campists) are the historical heirs of the Stalins and Kamenevs, even if they do not realize it.”
Surely that’s ignoring the original points made by Lih, that the Stalin Kamenev positions before April 1917 have been misunderstood and even distorted. I realise this refutes one of the great shibolleths of the Trotskyist tradition but so be it.

]]> By: Roberto DeLeon https://johnriddell.com/2017/03/20/louis-proyect-the-revolutionary-democratic-dictatorship-of-the-proletariat-and-the-peasantry-say-what/#comment-7347 Mon, 20 Mar 2017 20:54:30 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=3547#comment-7347 What Louis leaves out in his description of the tenets of Permanent Revolution are the roles played by the social classes in the anti-imperialist struggle.
This is no small matter as the two great present day ideologies clash over, for example, the role of the so-called “multi-polar ” states. Those of the Menshevik-Stalinist tendencies who argue for a block of states (The Campists) are the historical heirs of the Stalins and Kamenevs, even if they do not realize it.
As Proyect points out, he indicates his interest in pursuing this line of argument in relation to the Chinese revolution where the question of which social classes would lead the anti-imperialist struggle was played out.
I would suggest that an analysis of the Venezuelan experience compared to the Cuban experience within the framework of the above article might be more useful for a discussion on a topic not well understood by the international anti-imperialist left.

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