File spoon-archives/marxism-general.archive/marxism-general_1997/marxism-general.9712, message 245


Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 16:49:35 -0800
From: Gershom Bazerman <bazerman-AT-uclink4.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: M-G: BEAT BACK THE COUNTEREVOLUTIONARY SABOTEUR AND FBI


>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.

I'm not sure what you're saying here? Do you mean to say that it's the
fault of the Trotskyists that *Stalin* was a repressive dictator?

>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.

So just how was socialism overthrown in the Soviet Union? I can draw a
dividing line between Lenin and Stalin because it's clear that when power
passed from one to the other, there was a massive shakeup throughout the
government, and the policies of Stalin were entirely different from those
of Lenin. On the other hand, there doesn't seem to be the same dividing
line between Stalin and later Soviet governments.

>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.

Just look at Afghanistan today. It's torn apart from all sides -- precisely
BECAUSE the revolution there (supported by the USSR) failed.

>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:

This is simply false. As far as I can tell, Trotskyists are very much aware
of the reactionary nature of most current enviornemntal reform groups.

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

Really. The ideology of the most reactionary parts of the international
bourgeoisie is capitalism. This is basic Marx.

Gershom




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