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Btw, on Kautsky's EP, can you point to me what or why it was bashed by Lih?

i'll try to get back to your pm, i'm a bit busy with some political work these days though.

First of all, I don't know what CIRCLE means, or why you feel the need to always write in caps. Feel free to fill me in. Second, the parties of the Third were obviously composed of... Leninist parties. Third, I find that most of the time, when people complain of 'left sectarianism,' what they mean in essence is that Leninist organizational principles must be rejected. This is consistent with the rest of your positions.

Well, I do not see why you have decided that the SPD model is correct, seeing as it has already proven itself a failure. The collapse of the second international as a whole, and not just of this or that section, signified to Lenin - and should signify to us - that social-democracy, not just the SPD, was rotten to the core, and that one of the main causes for this was the non-vanguardist nature of those parties.

I haven't gotten around to reading the whole thing yet, but it seems that you're suggesting:

1) That there is no 'transitional stage' - the workers must set up socialism right after the revolution;
2) That instead of worker councils' ('soviet') democracy, we'll have direct democracy.

Both of these ideas, in my opinion, are false and do not fit in with historical materialism. If I'm wrong please let me know.

I knew this was coming.
I should probably try to understand what you're actually talking about in your criticisms first, what do you think?