Being brought up as Marxist-Leninist since the kindergarten years, I cannot
suggest any better response to Judi Kessler's practical suggestion that
Lenin's unperishable: "Without resolving the fundamental theoretical
questions any practical revolutionary effort is doomed to stumble at the
same damn questions over and over again". (My translation from the
freshman-layer memory)
Andy is doing us a great service -- those who face colleagues from the
pol-sci departments in practical daily life. My recent reading of the
various institutional reviews of the world-systems analysis courses in
American universities (they are mostly confidential, therefore blunt)
suggests that the armor plates and munitions which Andy is generosly
supplying, are bloody practical.
Polnyi vpered!
Georgi
Georgiļ M. Derluguian
Department of Sociology
Northwestern University
1812 Chicago Avenue
Evanston, Illinois 60208-1330
gderlug@nwu.edu
tel. (1-847) 491-2741