From: Carrol Cox <cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: Menshevik/Bolshevik terms
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 08:44:59 -0600 (CST)


    I think Antonio has it about right on the use of "bolshevik" and
"menshevik" on this list. They are just elegant variations for
"good" and "bad" and the quality of discussion would be greatly
improved if they were dropped except for specific historical
references.

    Carrol

Antonio Mota wrote on February 21:

>
> Hi all:
>
> I'm reading some old propaganda panflets from the post 74 portuguese
> revolution, wich has no autor and no references to other works, in wich
> uses the word menshevik,bolshevic,centrist, etc... in a diferent way
> wich are used on this list.
>
> On this list it appears that Stalinism=menshevism=centrism and
> Bolshevism=Leninism=Trotskism. However it seems that both Lenin and
> Stalin were a long time bolshevist in 1917, when Trotsky adhere to the
> party. And there was a group called "mejrayontsy" (menshevik -
> internationalists) who existed since 1913 whose lider whas Trotsky. This
> group is described as "centrist" in so far their positions were normally
> between menshevisk and bolshevik positions, namelly regariding the war.
>
> So have these terms any meaning on this list, or are they used as
> "insults" or "praises", like Stalinism=menshevism=centrism=BAD
> Bolshevism=Leninism=Trotskism=GOOD, without any regardings for their
> history meaning?
>
> Can someone explain that to me?
>
> Regards.
>
> Antonio Mota
>
>
>
>
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