On matters relating to intellectual honesty

It has been said that this blog practices revisionism. This is nonesense. All loyal blog readers should do well to denounce the petty agitation efforts of anti-blog subversives.

Only the petty diletantism of a revisionist would him or herself stoop to such base accusations. IN the interest of good taste, all claims to the contrary will not be tolerated. Now close ranks and get back in line. There will be no defection from the status qou. This band marches on.



In _The Poverty of Philosophy_, Marx wrote:

"The working class, in the course of development, will substitute for the old bourgeois society an association which will preclude classes and their antagonism, and there will be no more political power groups, since the political power is precisely the official expression of class antagonism in bourgeois society." (p.182, German edition, 1885)

" The state is a special organization of force: it is an organization of violence for the suppression of some class. What class must the proletariat suppress? Naturally, only the exploiting class, i.e., the bourgeoisie. The working people need the state only to suppress the resistance of the exploiters, and only the proletariat can direct this suppression, can carry it out. For the proletariat is the only class that is consistently revolutionary, the only class that can unite all the working and exploited people in the struggle against the bourgeoisie, in completely removing it."

-Lenin