Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 20:52:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jim Jaszewski <ab975-AT-main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
Subject: Re: Anti-trotskyism



On Tue, 25 Jul 1995, Chris Burford wrote:

> I am quoting from a pamphlet published by Progress Publishers,
> Moscow, 1964, with text taken from the English edition of Lenin's
> collected works.
> 
> Does anyone know if there is serious reason to think these passages
> aprocryphal? 

	None. They are clearly the 'secret' notes dictated by Lenin to his
secretaries -- generally known as his last 'testament'. 

	But speaking of apocrypha; I've always wondered: did Lenin
_really_ say/write that the capitalists would sell to the communists the
very rope by which they would be hanged?? 




-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
   Jim Jaszewski   <jjazz-AT-freenet.hamilton.on.ca>

   WWW homepage:   <http://www.freenet.hamilton.on.ca/~ab975/Profile.html>

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-



     --- from list marxism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---

     ------------------