Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 10:26:06 GMT
From: hariette-AT-easynet.co.uk (Hariette Spierings)
Subject: M-G: A GREATER POLITICAL THRUTH: Lenin on Trotsky



To Davidus Begodios Troskinianus, as a Christmas present, to smoke in his
degenerate eunuch's pipe:


>>Remarks made by Lenin periodically on Trotsky:
>>
>>1911
>>In 1903, Trotsky was a Menshevik; he left the Mensheviks in 1904; returned
>>to the Mensheviks in 1905, parading around with ultra-revolutionary
>>phrases the while and again turned his back on the Mensheviks in 1906
>>.... Trotsky plagiarizes today from the ideas of one faction, tomorrow
>>those of the other, and thus he regards himself as superior to both
>>factions.... I must declare that Trotsky represents his own faction only.
>>
>>1911
>>Such people as Trotsky with his puffed up phrases... are now the disease
>>of the age.... Everyone who supports Trotsky's group supports the policy
>>of lies and deception of the workers... it is Trotsky's special task...
>>to throw sand in the eyes of the workers... it is not possible to discuss
>>essentials with Trotsky, for he has no views... we merely expose him as
>>a diplomatist of the meanest description.
>>
>>1912
>>This bloc is composed of lack of principle, hypocrisy and empty phrases...
>>Trotsky covers them by the revolutionary phrase, which costs him nothing
>>and binds him to nothing.
>>
>>1914
>>The old participants in the Marxian movement in Russia know Trotsky's
>>personality very well, and it is not worthwhile talking to them about it.
>>But the young generation of workers do not know him and we must speak of
>>him.... Such types are characteristic as fragments of the historical
>>formation of yesterday, when the Mass Labor movement of Russia was still
>>dormant....
>>
>>1914
>>Comrade Trotsky has never yet possessed a definite opinion on any single,
>>earnest Marxian question; he has always crept into the breach made by
>>this or that difference, and has oscillated from one side to another.
>>
>>1915
>>Trotsky... as always, entirely disagrees with the social-chauvinists in
>>principle, but agrees with them in everything in practice.
>>
>>February 1917 (one month before the collapse of Czarism)
>>The name Trotsky signifies: Left phraseology and a bloc with the right
>>against the aim of the left.
>>
>
>
>Well, nothing really much has changed then.  If you were to substitute the
>name of Trotsky for that of Begodius Troskinianus and Zaremkianus you will
not need to change a single comma for anyone to see what Trotsky's
activities as a "marxist" meant for the serious business of the revolution
and how Lenin himself
>perceived them:
>
>"In 1903, Zarembkianus was a Menshevik; he left the Mensheviks in 1904;
returned to the Mensheviks in 1905, parading around with ultra-revolutionary
>>phrases the while and again turned his back on the Mensheviks in 1906
>>.... Zaremkianus plagiarizes today from the ideas of one faction, tomorrow
>>those of the other, and thus he regards himself as superior to both
>>factions.... I must declare that malecki represents his own faction only".
>
>Or try this one for size:
>
>"Such people as  with his puffed up phrases... are now the disease
>>of the age.... Everyone who supports Begodius group supports the policy
>>of lies and deception of the workers... it is Begodius special task...
>>to throw sand in the eyes of the workers... it is not possible to discuss
>>essentials with Begodius, for he has no views... we merely expose him as
>>a diplomatist of the meanest description".> 
>
>
>Or would not this apply to all of these sectarians who practice day in and
>day out the very worse aspects of Trotsky, as noted by Lenin himself,
>without partaking as much as an iota of Trotsky's other useful qualities
>which Lenin and Stalin himself recognised later in quite a few occassions?
>
>"The name [Begodius, Zaremka, Heriticus Levy, Orwell, Trotsky] signifies:
Left phraseology and a bloc with the right [MI6, British imperialism,
Azcuetas, reactionaries of all stripes and Nazi-fascists] against the aim of
the left".
>
>
>And finally:
>
>
>>This bloc is composed of lack of principle, hypocrisy and empty phrases...
>>Begodius covers them by the revolutionary phrase, which costs him nothing
>>and binds him to nothing.
>>
>
>And also:
>
>>This bloc is composed of lack of principle, hypocrisy and empty phrases...
>>Hereticus covers them by the revolutionary phrase, which costs him nothing
>>and binds him to nothing.
>>

>
>Cheers to Lenin!
>
>
>Adolfo
>



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