[lbo-talk] Neocons: Trotsky supported "pre-emptive war"

[Shane Mage]

This was Trotsky's position from the moment the Nazi's took power.
He made the point emphatically that a Communist government of
the USSR would have responded by immediate mobilization of the
Red Army  and intervention to support a German workers' anti-Nazi
uprising.

  The lying scoundrels know as neocons (in french, cons tout court)
equate the nonexistent threat to US imperialism posed by
Saddam Hussein with the deadly threat to humanity posed
by Adolf Hitler.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all 
things."                                                         

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64


>People might be interested in the quote from Trotsky, which Stephen 
>Schwartz quoted to me as proof of LT's support of pre-emptive war: 
>"He who does not outstrip the enemy while he is still weak; who 
>passively lets him strengthen and reinforce himself, protect his 
>rearguard, create an army for himself, receive support from abroad, 
>assure himself of allies; who leaves to the enemy complete freedom 
>of initiative - such a man is a traitor."  Trotsky said this, I 
>believe, as part of a critique of Stalin's purging of the Red Army 
>-- which was in fact a terrible thing. Jeet
>
>
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