Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 16:49:24 +0100 (MET) From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens) Subject: Re: M-G: Lenin the left counter revolutionary? Just a brief reply, Karl Carlille (09.11), to show how wrong you are in the below (most of which I've snipped): The Russian people and other peoples did oppose and smash the massive internention, in support of Kerensky and of other reactionary forces, by practically *all* the big powers at the time, in 1919-21; 14 countries in all were involved in that intervention against the Russian revolution. This shows that the great majority of people *did* support the Bolsheviks. So did many workers in many other countries. They counteracted that intervention too, and many of them tried to follow the example of the Russian Bolsheviks. Correct or not, deserved support or not? That's another question - to which I'll reply YES. *Your* thesis that the Bolshviks at that early stage "strangled" the revolution is all wrong. Rolf M. > >KARL: From what I can gather at this point in time the following may >be correct: The Boshevik party strangled the 1917 revolution. After >seizing the Winter Palace in October 1917 they went about the process >of transforming the soviets into empty shells that merely rubber >stamped the decisions of the the leadership of the Bolshevik party. ......... >They also indiscriminately crushed the greens which included the >Mahknovists. P.S. Smashing "Greens"? Were they similar to the present "Greens"? I'm not certain what you mean here. Smashing "Greens" today is very necessary at any rate. D.S. --- from list marxism-general-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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