Gregory A. Butler wrote:
One of the great tragedies of our movement - and the great historic tragedy
of Trotskyism - is that Trotsky's life was entrusted to the SWP (and alleged
NKVD double agent George Hansen - who later allegedly became an FBI
informant - was probably responsible for the NKVD
waistli...@aol.com wrote:
Actually, Max Schactm
Who the hell are you quoting?
Carrol
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Jim Farmelant wrote:
Perhaps, either you or Lou can do us the favor of explaining
what you mean by scientism. Whenever, I hear people
using that term (without explaining what they mean by it),
I am tempted to reach for my revolver, which is quite
inconvenient for me since I don't own one.
I of course was referring to Deutscher's bio below.
This is the sort of thing I had in mind. Trotsky's remarks on the
Dnieper Dam are cited in Trotsky's bio:
In the south the Dnieper runs its course through the wealthiest
industrial lands; and it is wasting the prodigious weight of its
On Aug 22, 2009, at 8:34 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
Jim Farmelant wrote:
Perhaps, either you or Lou can do us the favor of explaining
what you mean by scientism. Whenever, I hear people
using that term (without explaining what they mean by it),
I am tempted to reach for my revolver, which
David,
Actually, Max Schactman WAS one of those out of touch New York intellectuals? I
was referring to!
The fact that the SWP had him in charge of their Negro Question work proves
my point!
The SWP was the source of Trotsky's half baked and incorrect information on the
Negro Question
Whatever other functions it may have, Shane, language is fundamentally a
system of symbols that human beings use to request and impart information,
among other things. Understood as such, how people accustom ourselves to
use lexical items and grammatical constructions matters more to their
Would eugenics have a legitimate
place in a communust society?
Jim F.
I am afraid that Trotsky's musings on eugenics was the tip of the
iceberg. There was far too much scientism in his writings and an
insensitivity to ecological questions. Somebody (can't remember who)
wrote a crude
