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<div>This was Trotsky's position from the moment the Nazi's took
power.</div>
<div>He made the point emphatically that a Communist government
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<div>the USSR would have responded by immediate mobilization of
the</div>
<div>Red Army and intervention to support a German workers'
anti-Nazi</div>
<div>uprising.</div>
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<div> The lying scoundrels know as neocons (in french, cons tout
court)</div>
<div>equate the nonexistent threat to US imperialism posed by</div>
<div>Saddam Hussein with the deadly threat to humanity posed</div>
<div>by Adolf Hitler.</div>
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<div>Shane Mage<br>
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"Thunderbolt steers all
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<div>Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">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</font><br>
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