From: LeoCasey-AT-aol.com
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 14:27:49 -0500
Subject: Luxemburg Speaks For Herself


With all due respect to this list's "Red Rosa," who has given me some of the
few chuckles I have gotten out of the list recently, I believe that the eagle
of the revolution should be given her own chance to respond to the
misrepresentation of her politics by the Shining Path apologists.

_The Russian Revolution_ (Ann Arbor: 1961, p. 71.):

"In place of the representative bodies created by general, popular elections,
Lenin and Trotsky have laid down the soviets as the only true representation
of the labouring masses. But with the repression of political life in the
land as a whole, life in the soviets must become more and more crippled.
Without general elections, without unrestriucted freedom of press and
assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public
institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy
remains the active element."



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