> Anyhow to the question. I am looking for some data to refute allegations > that Stalin and Mao were responsible for x number of murders. Are there > good places to start looking? Books? Or are people here capable of > emailing stuff from their heads. > > Le meas, > DoC.
Comment "The Soviet Experiment" by Ronald Grigor Suny - Oxford University Press 1998, has for a while been my standard text on Soviet history and Stalin's so-called crimes and murders. I do recall a clash of opinion concerning China and Chairman Mao alleged murders between Henry C.K. L, myself and Lou P, with Lou taking basic Trotskyite positions that Mao murdered everyone. Somewhere in MLL archives I kicked off a quick series of articles about the Soviet Union that contains some of the data from the aforementioned book. Recently, I purchased and read Barry Sheppard's "The Party: Volume 1" on the Socialist Workers Party 1960-1980 and consider this book an excellent summation of the inner logic of American Trotskyism. The was a review of this book on Marxism list and Pen-L and I have been considering writing a review for MLL. Barry's "The Party" is a mockery of American history and a fundamental distortion and misunderstanding of the 1960s and 1970s political climate in America and gives insight into the ideology of political Trotskyism. Every fundamental political juncture in American history since the magnificent struggle in Montgomery, Alabama, broke out December 4, 1955, is missed, omitted and absent as determining the form of the proletarian social revolution in America. In America the question of Stalin was fought out on the basis of African American Liberation and Social Revolution since the 1928, Comintern document on the matter, rather than theoretical dispute over the issue of permanent revolution. The permanence of social revolution, as driven by the spontaneous quantitative and qualitative changes in the material power of production and what this means for social revolution in America and the world, was fundamentally clarified by the communist within the Stalin polarity during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Melvin P. _______________________________________________ Marxist-Leninist-List mailing list Marxist-Leninist-List@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxist-leninist-list
