File spoon-archives/marxism-general.archive/marxism-general_1997/marxism-general.9712, message 236


Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:36:43 +0100 (MET)
From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
Subject: Re: M-G: BEAT BACK THE COUNTEREVOLUTIONARY SABOTEUR AND FBI


Gershom B. wrote, on 15.12:

>Lenin yes. Stalin no. It was the tradition of Stalin that led to the
>abdication of Germany and other deformed worker's states as sacrificial
>lambs to the wolves of capitalism. And it was Stalinism which eventually
>carried through the Russian counter-revolution in order that it's parasites
>could pass on their wealth to their children. 

Now *when*, according to reactionary Trotskyism, did that counter-
revolution take place? The Trotskyites were always unclear about that.
Some of them at least say "in 1989-91". In fact Trotskyism *supported*
the *social-imperialist* Soviet Union of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s,
saying it was "socialist", "though with bureaucratic deformations".
That's very reactionary.

Trotskyism attack Stalin's regime for two things: Unjust suppression
against the people and bourgeois nationalism in foreign policy. And
there *were* such things under Stalin, but they were *not* the main
thing *then*.

*Later*, however, under Chrushchev and Brezhnev etc, they *did*
become the main thing. But *that* - now bourgeois - regime the
Trotskyites have always defended, against the Marxists, that
is, against the adherents of Mao Zedong. (And I don't mean
such swindlers as "MIM" etc).

>Revolution in China took
>place COUNTER to the wishes of the Soviet governemnt at the time, although
>it too ended up with a stalinist clique in power. 

That's not true. And the last part of that sentence smears the
socialism in China under Mao Zedong too. Again, very reactionary.

As for "Lenin" - other people have pointed out repeatedly how,
before mid-1917, the line of Trotsky was always *contrary* to
the (in the main) correct one of Lenin.

Rolf M.





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