Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 23:40:46 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: M-G: Re: so- called deformed workers states


Bob wrote on 26.01, replying to Neil:

> That is why Trotskyists do not walk off into the 
>desert screaming "Smash the Unions" like our ultra left Neil. 

So far, not a bad position by Bob M. One should neither walk off,
nor say that "whatever the Union does is right". A flexible kind
of tactics is needed for Marxists (which the Trots still are not).

>But who leads those Soviets is naturally 
>the decisive factor! 

Precisely, exactly and bull's eye. Only, that's precisely where
the Trotskyites have been wrong, respectively lying, for many
decades now, as far as the Soviet Union is concerned.
........

>Not really Neil. Your leftism is in fact rightism! 

And so, in the main, is yours, Bob.

Rolf M.



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