I'm not sure that's true and I've always been troubled by this "Monday morning quarterback" left sectarian outlook because it focuses so much on the Stalinists and the Left, thereby unwittingly shifting the onus away from the fascists. Look, say someone negligently leaves their door unlocked resulting in their whole family being murdered by thugs. Do we incessantly harp at one of the victim's negligence with only a glib passing reference to the deeds of the actual perpetrators? Thus this also sets up folks-and I'm definitely not talking about anyone involved in this discussion who I know are good people-for the accusation by "Stalinists" that their critics are neo-con cavalier philistines acting in bad faith in the manner of the original neo-cons like Burnam, Kristol the Elder and Sidney Hook who quickly went from ostensible trots to cold warriors with the same script of anti-Stalinist mongering.
I remember this whole script playing out around Chile with the sectarian left focusing on bashing Allende, who certainly had his faults, but this attitude unwittingly aided Pinochet by strongly implying that he and his followers were pathetic chumps that got what chumps get on the street. . . . fascism would never have come to power in Germany without > the policies of the Stalin dominated Comintern. > _________________________________________________________________ Get free photo software from Windows Live http://www.windowslive.com/online/photos?ocid=PID23393::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:SI_PH_software:082009 ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
