war and the state (was milton, etc.)

[Joe R. Golowka]

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote:
> The choice was, build up your industrial base at a terrible human cost, or be
> liquidated by Fascism.

Or partisan warfare along the lines of Makhno & the Ukrainian 
revolutionaries.


> Stalinism was the result of that situation, not
> some bad choice made by a personal leader. 

Yeah, it was the result of the institutions set up by the Bolsheviks 
during the revolution & civil war.

Joe