Comparing the Clinton regime to the Stalin regime

[Jacob Segal]

>Jacob Segal wrote:
>
>> Lenin himself
>> said in his own defense that you have to bash in people heads in order to
>> stop people from bashing heads forever, indicating that he saw an unlimited
>> violence as justified.
>
>That sneaking in of the modifier "unlimited" can stand as a image
>for the whole history of anti-communism and red-baiting (as can
>the attempt, not quoted) to treat Lenin, Stalin, and Mao as but
>separate names for the same substance.
>
>Carrol

I gladly distinguish Lenin from Stalin and Mao, but still condemn Lenin for
the unthinkable violence of his rule and betrayal of the socialist promise
of the time, as embodied by the Kerensky, Martov, etc.

Jacob