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

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Sun Apr 26 15:44:30 PDT 2009


Eric Beck writes: "I wonder if it's possible to count how many times in the last 80 years this conversation arc has happened: The Trot is faced with overwhelming historical evidence that Trotsky was a tyrant, and lots else besides. Cornered, the Trot starts accusing his opponent of being a closet capitalist and bourgeois apologist. Not a novel approach you are taking here, James."

Well, if it seems unremarkable, that's because the truth often is mundane.

And when it comes down to it, haven't bourgeois apologists been accusing socialists of being tyrants - and from a bourgeois perspective it makes sense: anyone who wants to replace the impersonal laws of the free market with a democratically planned allocation of society's resources must seem like a 'tyrant' to those for whom any challenge to capitalism is an affront.

It is good to see the Hayek-based philosophy of Beck and 'SA' uncovered.

Who is SA, anyway?

Shamelessly Apolitical Socialist Agnostic Substandard Argument Stubbornly Antagonistic Silly Arse Sulking Angrily Still Arguing? Shit 'Appens Soviet Apparatchik



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