******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. *****************************************************************
I don't disagree at all with the criticism's most people have of Furr. I know him personally. We meet about once a year in the Bay Area. What I would ask Furr is the same thing he uses to convict the entire Bolshevik Central Committee of: where is the evidence Tokarev was "coerced"? A fair enough question. Furr will make huge leaps of logic. For example, while it was revealed in 1981 or so that Trotsky lied before the Dewey Commission when asked about having contacts in the USSR (for obvious reasons) in the *reveled* communications via his son, Leon Sedov, there is zero damning him. In fact it's more inquisitive by Trotsky about the positions of the many Oppositionist groups that went through a revival in 1932. It's clear from what I've read that Trotsky didn't really have clue about what was going on in "his" underground. This 1932 reproachment by various Opposition groups when found out about it by Stalin, is the source of Stalin's paranoia about being overthrown. Keep in mind that this is years before Trotsky considered the Bureaucracy "counter-revolutionary through and through and needed to be overthrown" (1936/37). At any rate Furr loves to say "and of course Trotsky was a liar thefore...". A huh. Secondly, one of things that Broue admitted too was the removal of a document he found when given permission to view the Trotsky archives at Harvard. Without knowing whatsoever what the document was about he concludes Trotsky guilty of malfeasance. It is very much a method of Furr. David Walters _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
