[lbo-talk] Kronstadt

[Brad DeLong]

>Lance on Trotsky
>
>"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?"
>
>In both cases minorities took up arms against the Soviet state - it 
>was entitled to defend itself, just as it was entitled to defend 
>itself against the white armies.

Was it? If you look forward to what the Soviet state was to 
become--to what it already was in embryo--can one say that it had any 
"rights" to anything at all?
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Yours,

Brad DeLong