Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 12:11:40 +0100 (MET)
From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
Subject: Re: M-G: BEAT BACK THE COUNTEREVOLUTIONARY SABOTEUR AND FBI SPAMMMERS


Gershom B. wrote -

and I shall give a couple of answers - from me, thus - to the question:

>All slander against Trotsky and others aside -- what exactly in Trotksyist
>thought to you percive to be counter to the interests of the working class?

1) In their conflict with Stalin's group in the 1920s, the Trotskyists
were in the wrong, standing for a bourgeois line. Thus they also gave
an excuse for certain reactionary actions by Stalin etc later,
wrongful suppressions purportedly directed against "Trotskyism",
which the messes quite rightly were against.

2) In WW 2, the Trotskyites, or some of them, were against the
(then just) war by the USA, the UK etc, against Hitler, thus aiding 
the latter.

3) After socialism was overthrown in the Soviet Union, in the
1950s, Trotskyism defended the arch-reactionary Soviet regime
that resulted, the social-imperialist regime.

4) Not all of the Trotskyites but some of them at least
even defended, and to this day defend, the Soviet genocidal
aggression against Afghanistan in 1979-1989.

5) The Trotskyites vilified the (so brilliant) Chinese revolution
in 1949 etc.

6) The Troskyites not only have not attacked the arch-reactionary
"green" warfare (from the 1960s on, and very important today) by the 
main forces of the bourgeoisie, but have often instead gone to
great lengths in order to defend it and support it:

The reactionary actions against nuclear energy,
the "global warming" hoax, the "ozone hole" hoax,
etc, etc.

Trotskyism today is an ideology of the most reactionary parts
of the international bourgeoisie.

True enough, indivudal Trotskyites are sometimes not aware
of this; some of them apparently have some sincere intent of
supporting the workers, and I for instance have been in
some united fronts, anti-racist such, together with Trotskyites
too. But that doesn't change this fact about Trotskyism as
an ideology.

Rolf M.




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