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From: Kevin Robert Dean <qualiall_2 at yahoo.com>
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> He
>is a Robespierre or lesser Trotsky, perhaps only a
>Duke of Monmouth. He is one of those of whom Lenin was
>thinking when he wrote of “left-wing deviationism — an
>infantile disorder”. For all his personal austerity,
>and his merciless use of terror, he belongs to the
>category of playboy revolutionary, a rich man’s spoilt
>son petulantly seeking the approval of his deceased
>papa."
>
>http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,248-2001373483,00.html
The Osama / Trotsky comparison is apparently a trend at The Times. Here is an earlier article, which says that Osama is Trotsky and that Hamas is Stalinist:
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/21/stiusausa01005.html