Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 13:50:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Siddharth Chatterjee <siddhart-AT-mailbox.syr.edu>
Subject: Re: M-G: Aldofo, Detcom and Joe Stalin!




On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Robert Malecki wrote:

> 
> Actually there is not to much to answer above Dave's reply. SC knows that 
> Borokin was the COMINTERN representative in China during the Shang Hai 
> episode and the Maoists followed Stalin down the road of popular front 
> politics and the slaughter of the Chinese Proletariat in Shang Hai. And 
> later on Mao had basically the same line and had to be pushed into going 
> much futher then Stalin and his advisors would have liked in 1949.  Where 
> the same stagest theory linked to popular front politics was present in the 
> form of Mao's support to "private property" among other things.

Once again, you have transmuted "Borodin" to "Borokin". This is not
a simple spelling mistake, for looking down to the keyboard one finds the
letters F, G, H, J between D and K. This most likely points to your
hearing or reading this name somewhere and throwing it into this soup
of words in an effort to appear historical. According to you, "Maoists
followed Stalin down the road of popular front politics and the slaughter
of the Chinese Proletariat in Shang Hai." First, not only the proletariat
in Shanghai were slaughtered, but there were mass killings in other parts
of China, primarily of peasants. Second, Mao, at that time, was treated
almost as an outcast by the CC and did not have much influence. So
who and where were the Maoists in the 1920s? Also, back up your earlier
claim of "good old Mao betrayed the Shanghai proletariat" by citing
solid historical evidence instead of asserting that your hallucinations
actually transpired. 



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