[lbo-talk] Angela Davis a Stalinist?

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 13 06:35:04 PDT 2009


Stalin didn't engage in a planned famine either. IIRC at first the existence, and then the scale, of the famine (at least in Ukraine) was concealed from Stalin by the CP head of Ukraine (who ws later executed for having done so -- an unusual case in which somebody was purged for a crime he actually committed) and, inter alia, Khrushchev.

--- On Thu, 8/13/09, Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think it's plausible to argue that if Trotsky had total
> command over
> Soviet policy he wouldn't have engaged in a Mike
> Davis-style planned famine.
> But I wouldn't call even that "indisputable."
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