Jeff wrote
> So I suppose the question here is how do we avoid repeating the scenario and
> instituting one regime with another, how do we avoid throwing out the
> bourgoisie and merely replacing them with another ruling class "in the name
> of the workers" which becomes more attached to prese
Gidday Jeff,
I think there is a qualitative difference between Lenin and Trotsky's disciplinary actions and Stalins. The former were answerable to a party that still represented the politically conscious workers. Kronstadt is probably the best example of a workers' state killing rebellious work
Greetings,
Since I'm new and only been reading along for a few weeks, I don't know the
proper protocol for new "introductions" here. My sense is that what is said
is more important than who, so I won't go through and list every one of
Marx's works I've read. As to the other stuff, I'd descri
Hi again, Hugh.
I'm terrifically busy just now, so can't answer in detail.
>The automatic linking of Bolshevism with Stalinism, and the idea that
>Stalinism grew necessarily and organically out of the revolutionary
>Bolshevism of Lenin and Trotsky.
I've never made the Bolshie>Stalin link appe
Gidday Rob,
>Sez Hugh of the little disagreement of late:
>
>>it's part of the struggle for the leadership of the working class,
>
>It might be an analogue of some such struggle in some place and time, but I
>doubt anyone here really seeks to lead the working class. I don't anyway.
Always the
