[lbo-talk] Robert Frost Defends Robespierre, Lenin, Mao

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Sun Apr 26 06:15:40 PDT 2009


SA wrote: "the belief that society should be turned into a concentration camp in the interests of historical development - that was their ideology"

which suggests that 'SA' (which stands for what, anyway, 'Sturmabteilung'?) is essentially untrustworthy as a correspondent. It is one thing to say that Lenin and Trotsky's beliefs could lead to the view that society should be turned into a concentration camp, or that they did turn society into a concetration camp, but to say that their *goal* was to turn society into a concentration camp is just substituting your own conclusions for their actual proposition. Lazy thinking makes communication difficult.



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