En relaci�n a [PEN-L:519] Re: Re: now you know,
el 10 Aug 00, a las 22:42, Shane Mage dijo:
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> Zinoviev and Kamenev were communists--weak, vacillating, capitulating
> communists, but communists nonetheless. And Stalin? No communist at
> all--always an Okhranik infiltrator, certainly in his way of thought
> and practice, and probably in fact.
Oh, if things were THAT easy (BTW, Father Gapon was on the Okhrana
payroll)!.
But back to the main issue: the tragedy arises from the fact that
Kova used to be a dedicated revolutionist in Georgia and the
Caucasus. There is a complex dialectics (in the sense of your
Heraclitean motto on thunderbolt) between the structural features of
the vast Eurasian empire that bore the Revolution and the personal
features of Stalin. Stalin was at the same time a doer of the
Revolution and child of the Revolution. Easy definitions, much to our
grief, are not enough.
N�stor Miguel Gorojovsky
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