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Posted by mark on 21st November 2000
Country: england
It's always seemed odd to me that socialists don't see the contradiction in
iconacalising personalities.Why call yourself a Leninist, trotskyist or any
other ist. what's wrong (in these post-stalinist, post-labour days) just calling
ourselves socialists?
Allow me to commit real blasphemy here.Lenin and trotsky not only turned a blind
eye to stalins early crimes of murder against workers and peasants but have
not a few charges to answer for themselves. Trotsky's role in the crushing of
the Kronstrat workers,as well as the genocide against the peasantry in the Ukrane
is well documented.
Lenin used poison gas to quell disident peasants (the dark valley,piers brendon
p203) are these any worker can look up to for a method of action?