File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1996/96-11-03.020, message 14


Subject: Re: M-I: The Unknown Lenin
From: acaruso-AT-juno.com (Anthony J Caruso)
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 22:20:53 EST


On Mon, 28 Oct 1996 17:46:35 -0500 () "Rosser Jr, John Barkley"
<rosserjb-AT-jmu.edu> writes:
>     Among other things the book claims that:

>1)  Lenin was paid by the Germans.
	Uh huh...does the book say paid for what?  Taking out the
	trash?  Doing their laundry?  Feeding the dog?  This is
	ridiculous.

>2)  Lenin issued an order resulting in the deaths of 
>thousands of priests.
	MmHmm...and I suppose that it would be a perfectly
	logical thing to do for him to kill thousands of the very
	people whom Karl Marx described as having been 	converted
into mere wage labourers by the Bourgeoisie.  	Doesn't it make
sense for him to kill all kinds of possible 	allies?  

>3)  Lenin approved of Stalin but thought that Trotsky was 
>politically incompetent.
	Yeah...you know that Trotsky...a political bufoon.  Stalin
	had 10 times more political prowess in his little finger than
	Trotsky did in his entire body.  ;-)

*Note:  The above comments, if you please, should be taken with a
	large degree of sarcasm and hyberbole as to keep the
	meaning from misconstrusion.  Thank You. 

This "book" if you want to elevate it to that status, ought to be
boycotted.  This seems, to me, anyway, just another underhanded attempt
by the imperialists to hoodwink the public into believing that anyone
associated with Communism, Karl Marx, or Socialist Russia is a bad guy .
. . Joe McCarthy lives on . . .

Comradely,
Anthony J. Caruso


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