Leninism in 2003 (was: Re: Revolutionary Defeatism

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Wed Mar 26 14:07:14 PST 2003


Lou Paulsen wrote:


>
"... It means always remembering that we are here as representatives of the workers and oppressed,
>and for that matter the workers and oppressed of the
entire world...It means acting toward people of
>oppressed nationalities, and of other
oppressed groups, with sensitivity and with
>respect for the principle of self-determination..."

Considering that the WWP split from the Trotskyist movement in order openly to support the Russian suppression of the Hungarian workers' revolution and confirmed its stance by openly supporting the Russian invasion and occupation of Czechoslovakia, it seems that this version of "Leninism" (a term, incidentally, alien to Lenin-- it was invented, as he himself admitted, by Zinoviev as a weapon to slander Trotsky) is, perhaps, slightly disingenuous.

Shane Mage

"immortals mortals, mortals immortals, living their deaths, dying their lives"

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62



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