Re: From Marx to Stalin

This is just a when-did-you-stop-beating-yr-wife qn. If you want to debate 
the
merits and demerits of Stalinism, that's one thing. But your echoing the
crassest kind of McCarthyite judgments seems to preclude any kind
of debate.

Mark Jones


----- Original Message -----
From: <John_R_Groves@ferris.edu>
To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 1999 3:48 PM
Subject: From Marx to Stalin


> Andrew, you ask which parts of Marx led to Stalinism. I thought my posts 
>were
> clear on this: (a)eliminating markets and (b) the dictatorship of the
> proletariat. The whole thrust of my argument has been that once one 
>agrees to
> these two components of Marx's philosophy, then the "political logic" 
>eventually
> leads to Stalinism. I have been asking for arguments to the contrary, but 
>no one
> seems willing to take up the challenge.
>
> Randy Groves
>
>