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Article: On Soviet communism. (Letter to the Editor)
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- The National Interest
- Article date:
- June 22, 1993
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IN THE COURSE of an otherwise informative article William Odom has the following to say about the impact of European and Russian Social Democrats of the Menshevik persuasion and their impact on American Sovietology: They were convinced that Marxism was basically sound as a theory of development, that Lenin was merely a Social Democrat gone astray and that he was not beyond redemption....Similar thoughts were uttered in an earlier article by Martin Malia.
Before this travesty of the historical role of Menshevism becomes a new orthodoxy a few corrections may be in order. Menshevism was in the beginning Marxist, but then virtually every Russian intelligent was at ...