Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 16:06:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Siddharth Chatterjee <siddhart-AT-mailbox.syr.edu>
Subject: M-I: Transitional Program




On Mon, 30 Dec 1996 dr.bedggood-AT-auckland.ac.nz wrote:

> Bolshevik Party.  And in the face of fascism, which you do not 
> understand, the revolutionary Trotsky  called  for a united front 
> of the German CP and SP against fascism.  The counter-revolutionary 
> leaderships [no rank and file] of the CP and SP betrayed the German 
> workers to fascism.    
>  
> Dave. 
> 

In the face of fascism, why did the revolutionary Trotsky repeatedly call
for an internal insurrection in the SU that would overthrow its leadership?
And when fascism conquered Belgium and France in a matter of days, 
the advanced western proletariat in these countries barely put up any show
of resistance to the fascists. Strange to say, it was the workers and
peasants in the "degenerated workers state", that put up the most
fierce fight to Hitler ultimately paying with 20 million lives and
terrible devastation.

The problem with Trotskyism is that it is mostly empty phrase mongering
(the venerable Malecki is one example) as Lenin pointed out long ago.
Nowhere in the world have its adherents ever succeeded in leading a
revolution of the masses. That is because of its property of the
"unity of theory with theory" as Joao pointed out.  




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