From: ROSSERJB-AT-jmu.edu
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 11:14:26 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Difference of opinion


Adolfo,
     My wall is covered with burned kittens' tails.
Hah hah hah hah hah!  Barney and I trade them.
     You may have a twinkle in your eye, as has been
alleged by some folks, but you have a funny way of 
avoiding tough questions.  I would completely agree with
Louis P. that Moscow Trials, Molotov-von Ribbentrop Pacts,
and other items of ancient history should probably be
left to the dustbin of history.  But they will not be if
you keep bringing them up and asserting as you did 
yesterday how now the line on this list is that all these
things were great and wonderful (because you say so) and
that it is only Trots and bourgeois scholars who disagree.
     There are such things as crimes against humanity.  I
would lay odds that even with the departure of the M2 crowd
a majority of those on this list would agree that Stalin was
guilty guilty guilty of same.  Get with it, Adolfo.
    As for questions:
1)  Did the plots charged in the Moscow Trials, such as one
to build a tunnel to India, really exist?  More concretely,
is it not the case that thousands of people who were loyal
supporters of the regime were wrongfully put to death?
2)  Does the PCP CC support the WMC?  Your response to Chris
Burford's pointed and repeated questions on this matter descended
to purely personal abuse.  If you can't do better than that, then
I suggest that you get off the list.  Your credibility is zero.
Barkley Rosser


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