On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> > Doss...There are reasons for it -- mainly, Trotsky
> > was mostly full of shit.
> ...the foresight to warn against dictatorial course Stalin had set upon
> - maintaining a critique of Stalinism from the left throughout the rest
> of his life...his failing was that he underestimated the degeneration of
> Stalinism...The prospects of building another international movement in
> the same generation as the formation of the mass communist parties were
> slim. It's a tragedy that the most militant sections of the working
> class dedicated their lives to shoring up a dictatorship that was
> slaughtering their own class wholesale. It's a tragedy that a better
> attention to Trotsky's lessons would have averted.
What a humanitarian. When was he warning against the dictatorial course Stalin had set upon, when he was lead the Red Army into Kronstadt? Was he maintaining his critique of Stalinism from the left when he was crushing Makhno and the Ukrainian workers movements resistance to Russian domination?
-- Lance