[lbo-talk] [Pen-l] Meditations on Trotsky and Occupy_2

[Mike Ballard]

Points of information:  This was the same Lenin who wrote: "Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement." and..."It is impossible completely to understand Marx’s Capital, and especially its first Chapter, without having thoroughly studied and understood the whole of Hegel’s Logic. Consequently, half a century later none of the Marxists understood Marx!!"  And the same theorist Trotsky who led the Red Army against the Kronstadt rebellion.  Trotsky wired Zinoviev re the Kronstadt sailors, in revolt for the fulfillment of the promises of the Revolution, “Shoot them like partridges.”

Over and out,
Mike B)
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And yet this theorist led the Red Army to victory.

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Joanna

----- Original Message -----
Lenin was not a theorist -- he rather 'applied' Kautsky to Russian
conditions. (See Lars Lih). Trotsky was not only a theorist but suffered
from the worst disease of theory: the assumption that theory could directly
control practice. See Lenin's article (Vol. 8) on Trotsky's words on Father
Gapon. Trotsky argued that there would be no more Father Gapons, and that
Marxists would have to do that work themselves.
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