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

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 26 13:57:16 PDT 2009


James Heartfield wrote:


> You could argue that the plan is not labour's, and therefore the working class is enslaved, rather than being self-determining (though I think you would be wrong),

Yes, that's just what I'm arguing.


> but you cannot, I think, argue that Trotsky means that Socialism is a concentration camp since concentration camps are not usually run by their inmates.
>

This is supposed to imply that the Soviet government was run by its inhabitants?

SA



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