Stuart “I’m bowing out of

Stuart
“I’m bowing out of this thread with a few concluding remarks.
First, I am not confusing Leninism with Stalinism. This says about all that needs to be said on the matter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz11K1wUbrc”
Indeed, you are confusng the two, notwithstanding that biased video.
“Second, I think Rosa is partly right. He [??] is criticising the dialectics of Lenin and Leninism, inherited from Engels. This is a silly dogma, and Rosa’s criticisms, although tediously lengthy and monomaniacal and equally dogmatic, are about right.”
My work is ‘tedious’ since the ‘theory’ I am criticising is mind-numbingly boring. It’s impossible to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. And I am no more ‘monomaniacal’ than Marx was in his almost lifelong obsession with fighting to rid the planet of capitalism. I happen to think, and I also reckon I can show, that this theory has helped ruin Marxism. If that is so, then the future of the planet partly depends on defeating this theory.
“Third, Adam is right that this is not at all the same as Dietzgen, who was a very interesting and subtle thinker, whose philosophy is in accord with modern science. (As an interesting aside, also with Buddhism’s worldview, at least in some respects, but that’s not important.)”
I disagree; Dietzgen is among the very worst of theorists I have ever read; even worse than Engels. He’s no more in line with modern science than creationsists are.  And Buddhism is not at all consistent with modern science. May I suggest you read Victor Stenger on this — particularly his The Unconscious Quantum?
http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/meta.html
“Fourth, yes, I do mean “he”. If Rosa is a woman, I’ll cut my cock off and eat it with my hat. I refer you to rule 16 of the Rules of the Internet.”
Well, in that case, I’ll book you a bed in ER. [It looks like you have confused me with my ex-partner, which others have also done.]