Comparing the Clinton regime to the Stalin regime

[Seth Ackerman]

	Doug wrote:
> I entirely agree that secret police have no place in my utopia, and
> that
> the brutal idiocies of Stalinism are a betrayal of Marxism. But
> Kerensky or
> any other democrat you want to name would have faced the implacable
> hosility of the domestic foreign bourgeoisie. 
> 
> 
	My understanding is that the Western powers didn't really care
about the Russian Revolution - they thought Russia was too backwards to
pose much of a threat. The various invasions and interventions by the
Allies were done mainly to keep the Russians fighting the Germans. This
is what Melvyn Leffler says in his recent book. Or am I wrong?

	Seth