Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 05:59:40 +0100
From: Richard Bos <Richard.Bos-AT-hagcott.meganet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Richard B. on Unity!


NICK.HOLDEN-AT-geo2.poptel.org.uk wrote:

> Malecki, who attacks you in debate, defends your right to take part in the
> 'UNITY' list, despite being banned from it himself. You try to weasle in by
> "not being a Stalinist" despite being in a political organisation that is
> proud of Stalin, his era and his legacy, and then compound your sins by
> suggesting that the organisers of the list ban a few more people for good
> measure.

I think that Robert should be allowed on the left-unity list. I was 
making the point that the list is misnamed, because the people who the 
Trotskyists call Stalinists are more likely to find Unity than the 
Trotskyists are.

I do not like repeating myself Nick, but just because I have, in my 
opinion, a realistic view of Stalin; that does not make me a Stalinist.
He was an important historical figure, he wrote some good books, end of 
story. In my day to day Party work I think of Marx and Lenin, very rarely
Stalin. 


-- 
Best wishes,

Richard.                     
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