File spoon-archives/marxism-general.archive/marxism-general_1996/96-11-15.074, message 30


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.



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