Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 14:45:46 -0500 (EST) From: Justin Schwartz <jschwart-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us> Subject: Re: M-TH: On Easy (and False) Moral Equivalences Leo suggests that Trotskyists face moral responsibility of some sort for the Nazi genocide, which began in 1941-2, because they opposed allied participation in WWII in 1939-40. (As, by the way, did the CPUSA.) This is odd. Retrospectively, Trots might well come to think that in view of what happened that was the wrong position, but a bad call of that sort hardly makes the guilty of complicity in mass murder. I am, by the way, not a Trot. On Sun, 30 Nov 1997 LeoCasey-AT-aol.com wrote: > I would think that one who embraces a tradition is impelled, if they are > intellectually honest, to face up to the failures and nadirs of that > tradition. Whatever one would want to make of the Trotskyist tradition -- and > since it has never held state power in any meaningful sense of the word, we > can not judge how the practice conforms to the theory -- it would seem that > its position on World War II, that it was the second great imperialist war, > with a curse on all parties to the war, would have engendered a little > reflection on political responsibilities in the face of genocide. Alas, it > appears not. > --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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