From: Ian Land <iml-AT-dircon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Charlotte and Scott: Conf...
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 00:28:02 -0000


>I do not know if Trotsky was an agent of Adolf Hitler.  I do >not find that prospect wholly unbelievable, as even Trotsky's >defenders acknowledge the egomaniacal nature
>of the man and his desire for power above all else

With this remark, you put yourself well outside the realm of rational debate. Sure, some Trotskyists are stalinophobes, and fail to see the mote in their own eye. But Trotsky, for all his faults, defended a vision of socialism as being the self-emancipation of the working-class, against the bureaucratic and authoritarian travesty of marxism promulgated by stalinists.

Ian
IS Group


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