[lbo-talk] Re: Trotsky on Soviet Planning

[Shane Mage]

Joanna wrote:
Chris Doss wrote:
>>the Soviet ideology was above all Russian peasant populism
>>writ large.
>>---
>Can either of you guys elaborate on this with a few examples. I'm 
>not >disagreeing, I'm just curious and want to hear more.

What he means by "Soviet ideology" is *Stalinist* ideology,
nothing else.  The November revolution (whose leadership Doss has called
"full of shit") was based on the perspective of international revolution,
and none (except for the undiscovered Okhranik[s] in their apparatus)
of the Bolsheviks--most emphatically including the
"Left" faction that joined the "Russian peasant populist"
Left-Socialist-Revolutionary Party in calling for "revolutionary
war" in February 1918--regarded "Russian peasant populist"
ideology with anything but abhorrence.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not
consent to be called 
Zeus."                                                         

Herakleitos of Ephesos