Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 16:50:27 +0100
From: Richard Bos <Richard.Bos-AT-hagcott.meganet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Cuba: Workers State


Hugh Rodwell wrote:
>
> 
> No misinterpretation at all. Except you failed to ask what would happen to
> his renowned alliance with the national bourgeoisie if their political
> interests were crushed this way.
> 
> Adolfo's takes his stand on the total truth and validity of everything
> Stalin said or did, particularly the forced collectivization, the Moscow
> trials and the Stalin-Hitler pact. He's not only keen on suppressing
> things, it's his whole life. His great tragedy is that he was born too late
> to be the Peruvian rep on the Comintern in its great days of the 1930s.
> 
> History stopped with the death of Stalin (sorry, it was transferred to
> Beijing), though how this view of the decadent treachery of Kruschevite
> revisionism can be squared with such classical Stalinist stunts as the
> invasions of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 beats me.
> 
> I think we can all imagine Adolfo with a superpower state machine (secret
> service, trained assassins, a money trough etc) to put some real clout
> behind his musings.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Hugh
> 

Do you think that after a Communist seizure of state power the current 
ruling class is going to say, like the old cockney criminals in their 
striped Tshirts and bags marked swag, "It's a fair cop guv! You got me 
fair banged to rights. I'll come quiet."?

They will use everything at their disposal to prevent, and defeat a 
revolution. They will not give up even one or two years later. It is 
plain common-sense that a revolution has a duty to defend itself against 
a ruthless ememy who will do just about every horrible, nightmarish thing 
you can imagine.

Maybe you think we should just tell them to read some dusty book by Leon 
Trotsky, and they would all be convinced of the rightiousness of your 
cause. But then a Trotskyist party could never get in the position to 
make those real choices, could it?

-- 
Best wishes,

Richard.                     
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