Here here!! On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 7:41 PM Charles Rachlis via groups.io <Crachlis= yahoo....@groups.io> wrote:
> If we’re going to persist in calling Bolshevik-Leninists, and advocates of > the theory of Permanent Revolution Trotskyites we may as well just agree > it’s fitting to call advocates of the Popular Front, Socialism in One > Country, the Bloc of Four Classes and settling political differences with > pick axes Stalinoids. Suck it up and pull up your big boy panties! > > Most of the M-L’s, out Stalinists and closeted Stalinists I have known > over the last 50 years did not consider the Moniker Stalinist a pejorative. > I see no reason to protect their vanity on this discussion venue. > Stalinism is a defined political ideology which practices class > collaboration, defending the privileges of the bureaucracy at the expense > of workers power and enforcing those privileges with violence and murder of > revolutionary workers and intellectuals. There is no need to hide this by > abolishing the word. Such would be anti-historical and a concession to the > Stalin’s erasure of and rewriting of history. > > Exposing the method and history of the Stalinists is preferable to name > calling designed to end debate with angry dismissal. Undoubtedly there are > many moments in history members of this list serve would be expeditiously > dispatching each other. Yet, here we are . While a modicum of decorum > would be nice on this list we all know that you have to break the eggs to > make the omelette. > > Bring the whisk and let’s get on with it! > > Charles Rachlis (Bolshevik-Leninist-Trotskyist) > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33798): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33798 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109752225/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
