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

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Apr 26 17:39:48 PDT 2009


On Apr 26, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Eric Beck wrote:


> What matters isn't whether
> Trotsky was a jerk but what Stalin's gulags and executions--which were
> just the political version of Lenin's and Trotsky's economic gulags,
> forced collectivization and Taylorism in the factories--say about the
> vicissitudes of maintaining a statist revolution.

I await enlightenment on how one maintains a non-statist revolution. Your view of this as a "stupid" question pretty much convinces me you have no idea, and so get all defensive and pissy about it.

Doug



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