> From: Jim Devine > > I don't think the discussion is helped by references to an > emotion-laden term such as "Trotskyists." > > ^^^^^ > CB: On a related point, what do you think of use of the term "Stalinists" ?
in both cases, if one wants to have a discussion, it's better to talk about specifics. Just as with Trotskyists, there are all sorts of different kinds of Stalinists -- and they often disagree with each other. After all, the Vietnamese Stalinists were quite upset when the Chinese Stalinists invaded (at the end of the US war on Vietnam). I'd bet that when USSR occupied much of Eastern Europe, many of the Stalinists there were a mite peeved to find that Stalin's folks had chosen others to run their countries ^^^^^^^ CB: Neither the Vietnamese , Eastern Europeans nor the Chinese termed themselves "Stalinists". They were Marxist-Leninists. Your use of the term slanders and disrepects them , and wrecks civil discussions on these issues. It's a provocation. To refer to people who don't consider themselves Stalinists as Stalinists is none other than Trotskyist/petit bourgeois revolutionist slander, childish namecalling, unworthy of this list. The response to you should be to refer to by some similarly insulting label. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
