Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 20:43:42 GMT
From: hariette-AT-easynet.co.uk (hariette spierings)
Subject: Re: 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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That is why Lenin said that she occassionally flew as low as a hen!

However you hens can never raise to her heights when she was being an eagle!
Poor defense when in attacking the Soviets and Lenin, she also attacks your
own idol: Trotsky!  A case of cutting your nose to spite your face!  Pathetic!

A.O.



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