Comparing the Clinton regime to the Stalin regime

[Jacob Segal]

>Jacob Segal wrote:
>
>>The alternative to the Bolsheviks was the democratic socialism of Kerensky
>>or of  the agarian socialist revolutionary party which was in the large
>>majority in 1917, which is way the Bolsheviks ruthlessly surpressed them,
>>like all socialists who were not Bolsheviks.  It was known to the other
>>socialists that Lenin and his followers were insane.
>>
>>I find it odd these defenses of Lenin, Stalin and Mao.
>
>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. For a more recent example,
>look what happened to Allende. How do you keep the CIA at bay without jails
>and firing squads? I really don't know the answer to that, but it's not
>just a matter of making good or bad choices.
>
>Insane seems an odd word to apply to Lenin.
>
>Doug

It may well be that western bourgeois nations would have attacked any
Russian socialist government particuarly if that government had made peace
with Germany.  However, we will never know partly because Lenin used firing
squads and secret police against his fellow socialists. Why defend in any
way this political terror and the closing of the constituent assembly where
the Boleshivks had only 25 percent of the vote?

And insane seems quite accurate.

Jacob Segal