I was cautioned by this email moderator that - mentioning Stalin wrongs - was unacceptable since the Trotsky-Stalin History and Debate Are Not Allowed.
So why is it when I posted anti-Stalin that was a violation but we see Grover Furr spurious attacks to support Stalin - acceptable? One can maybe find the actual answers to whom was on a pro-worker revolutionary path - and whom was not bt Stalin and Trotsky's orientation to defeat capital harm. Seems the end of the Soviet Union - now over three decades ago - seems enough time to allow us and the world left - to make proper conclusions on what happened - and whom was responsible - by their strategic decisions to advance a better world? Will Stalin's School of Falsification be finally exposed as the failures of other revolutions to bring needed workers to power to create a better world and needed better humanity and society? Can we move forward with better agreement with revealing and sharing all the mistakes and errors - so we can proceed to set up better models to a successful cooperative needed socialist world. On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 3:44 PM Steven L. Robinson via groups.io <srobin21= [email protected]> wrote: > It's actually worse than that. After all the old Bolsheviks had been > removed from positions of authority, if not expelled, the CPSU held the so > called "Congress of Victors" in which achievements of the early 1930s were > celebrated. The participants were members of Stalin's own victorious > faction. Ultimately the majority of those who attended that Congress were > purged as well. > > SR > > > > On 08/13/2026 1:49 PM PDT Mark Baugher <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > This is the small-man theory of history. The focus is on failed > individuals rather than social and historical processes. Looking at it > historically, the process is this: All the living, old Bolsheviks (plus > Trotsky) turned out to be spies and traitors during a decade of progress in > the USSR, where they were celebrated as heroes and to which they all had > devoted decades of their lives and suffered exile, imprisonment, and > personal hardships. All of them, with the exception of one. And when that > person died, the USSR suffered a collapse into capitalism. > > > > Assuming that implausible story is true, where were the workers through > all of this? Who put them to sleep? What kind of system demobilized the > working class that won the Russian Revolution. What happened to their > organizations? To the soviets that they invented in 1905 and were supposed > to get all the power in 1917. > > > > Please. > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#42997): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42997 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/120720019/21656 -=-=- 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: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
