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At 09:51 AM 1/24/2000 -0000, paul c wrote:
>Jurrian
>>Much more was needed
>> than electrification - not just popular literacy but also a democratic
>> civil society.
>
>Civil society is a euphemistic translation of the german, bourgeois society
>is an equally valid one. So you are saying that socialism requires a
>democratic
>bourgeois society. Lenin believed it required a workers and peasants
>dictatorship. I would tend to side with Lenin.
>
Let's say we used the term "socialist civil society" (which I think would
be consistent with Jurriaan's intended meaning). What would the difference
be to what you identify as Lenin's position?
in solidarity,
mike
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