http://www.yorku.ca/lefthist/text/arguing.htm "Of course, Trotsky was a difficult master to follow. William Phillips, editor of Partisan Review, recalls an argument between Trotsky and one of the magazine's staff: "Trotsky turned viciously against Dwight Macdonald . He said everybody had a democratic write to be stupid but Dwight Macdonald abuses the privilege! The sequel to the story is that some people came around raising funds for Trotsky and they rang Dwight Macdonald's doorbell and asked him to contribute to Trotsky. Macdonald said, 'Tell Trotsky to go fuck himself!'"
Michael Pugliese