Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 12:13:37 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Re: M-G: Reply to Rob on Trotskyism (Was: Insect spray Special) 


ROLF, AS FAR AS I CAN REMEMBER LENIN SAID THAT TROTSKY HAD MADE ERRORS,
BUT THEY WERE NOT INTENTIONAL, AND THAT BY 1917 HE HAD BECOME ONE OF THE
BEST BOLSHEVIKS.  TO BUKARIN AND PERHAPS ZINOVIEV IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY,
HE COMMENTED ON HOW IN 1917 THEIR ERRORS WERE INTENTIONAL.
OH, BY THE WAY, THE CURRENT MILITANT IS A BUNCH OF BULLSHIT, THEY ARE A
POOR REPRESENTATION OF MARXISM.  SOCIALIST APPEAL, IS THE CONTINUATION OF
THE MILITANT TENDENCY, MILITANT I FIRMLY BELIEVE WAS ONE OF THE BEST
ORGANIZATIONS AROUND, IT DEGENERATED - THEY SPLIT, AND THE CURRENT MEMBERS
OF SOCIALIST APPEAL WERE KICKED OUT, BUT THEY HAVE KEPT UP THE STRUGGLE!
I AGREE, THE CURRENT MILITANT IS BOURGEOIS REVISONISM!

ROB









> Siddharth C. wrote, on 13.09, the below:
> 
> And thanks for the correction, Sid - if correct, which
> I presume, since I  just "quoted" something I *thought*
> I remembered, from rather long ago. I do remember there was
> rather sharp criticism against Trotsky too - as well as
> against Stalin, for instance - in that letter of Lenin's.
> 
> Do you perhaps have the full text of that letter, Sid?
> 
> I'd be grateful if you'd post it to the list!
> 
> Rolf M.
> 
> 
> >
> >On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, Rolf Martens wrote:
> >
> ><snip>
> >
> >> leading position at least, at all.
> >> 
> >> No. That much I remember. The text of that "will", a certain letter
> >> to the party, I think it was, is known. About Trotsky it said in the
> >> letter that he "had never understood dialectics" - true, I think.
> >> By no means was he "specifically given" such a duty.
> >> 
> >
> >Rolf,
> >
> >Lenin wrote that about Bukharin, not Trotsky. Regards.
> >
> > 
> >
> >
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