Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 11:05:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: On Trotsky


First of all, Godena, would you please throw in an occasional paragraph 
return in your messages. They are difficult enough to read on their own.

Secondly, you don't seem to have the slightest inkling of what Permanent 
Revolution meant since you state the following: "Permanent revolution, or its 
near replication, occurred in Germany in 1919, in Hungary a few years later, 
potentially in England during the 1926 General Strike, etc."

The theory of the Permanent Revolution applied not to the most advanced 
capitalist countries, but to countries like Russian, Spain and China which had 
uncompleted bourgeois-democratic tasks. To mention England and Permanent 
Revolution in the same breath indicates to me that you either have not 
read Trotsky, or having read him, misrepresent him in the most willful 
manner.


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