Another WW letter

[alanjjohnstone]

https://www.weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1282/letters/

I am always surprised that I am one of the few members who seeks to respond to what is in WW. They have a receptive editorial policy when it comes to publishing letters.

The CPGB itself might not be a huge organisation but WW does receive a wider readership.  It claims an online traffic averaging over 20,000 a week and hardcopies of  500 a week.

[Anonymous]

It should be also mentioned that Dictatorship in that particular historical period meant temporary  Government,  an expression taken from the Roman legal system which did not mean the adverse connotation of our time. You made a very good explanation of what the dictatorship of the proletariat was according to Marx point of view, in our time we do not need the DOP, but the Leninist are still living in the XVIII century when capitalism only existed in England and it was emerging in some Europeans countries. Lenin wrote that the main core of Marxism was the dictatorship of the proletariat which is wrong because it was only a temporary measure, the real core is a stateless and wageless society.

[Anonymous]

A few quibbles here and there but an otherwise interesting letter making some valid points from someone called Maren Clarke in the latest edition of Weekly Worker.  Scroll down to the ‘Communism’ sub-heading.

https://www.weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1293/letters/

[alanjjohnstone]

Yes, the letter is expressing the message that we ourselves should be actively promoting, Dave.

Hopefully, others are picking up on the repercussions of the responses to COVID-19 and will recognise the potential for revolutionary change.

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