On 8/14/20 3:43 AM, Joseph Green wrote:
He ranked Selassie alongside Cromwell or Robespierre, which for Trotsky -- who ignores certain things about these "dictators", such as Cromwell's butchering of the Irish people -- was very high praise.
So what? Mustafa Kemal also played a progressive role by uniting the Turks against English imperialism that was using Greece as a proxy. That same impulse also led to the suppression of Armenians and Kurds. Lincoln was the quintessential bourgeois revolutionary but he directed his military to slaughter native peoples exactly like George Washington did.
Trotsky wrote an article titled "Learn to Think" that I reference in my CounterPunch article today about the U. of Utah fiasco. Joseph might find Trotsky's article useful.
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