How did the Terror, which killed 800,000 or so people, become a "pogrom against the Bolsheviks"? There were plenty of Bolshies doing quite well at the time. They were the ones carrying out the Terror. Were Stalin and Kaganovich and Yezhov not Bolsheviks?
I think it is time to rid ourselves of Trotsky's self-serving, simplistic and tendentious interpretation of history. ;)
Khrushchev's too. "I, Khrushchev, am good. Stalin was bad. It was all the fault of the Georgian guy. I never killed anybody."
--- Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
> Like a true liberal, "andie" presents Stalin's
> pogrom against the
> bolsheviks as "bad communism"--instead of what it
> was, the definitive
> triumph of neo-Tsarist counterrevolution; and
> Truman's loyalty-security
> program as "bad liberalism"--instead of what it was,
> the beginning
> of domestic mobilization, in the name of liberalism,
> for all-out
> militarism in furtherance of the
> Wilsonian-Rooseveltian
> design of "democratic" US imperialist domination
> over the entire world.
>
> Shane Mage
>
> "One can never agree, in any kind of war, with
> events that take the
> lives of innocent civilians. Nobody could justify
> the attacks of the
> German Air Force on British cities during World War
> II, nor the
> thousands of bombers that systematically destroyed
> German cities in
> the decisive moments of the war, nor the two atomic
> bombs which the
> United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in
> an act of pure
> terrorism against old people, women and children."
> (Fidel Castro)
>
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