Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 21:48:37 -0500
From: rahul-AT-peaches.ph.utexas.edu (Rahul Mahajan)
Subject: Re: Who won in Vietnam? / Trotskyist orthodoxy?


Jorn:

>An older and more experienced comrade once explained to me the
>importance of these past revolutionaries: "We shouldn't lick their boots
>- we should stand on their shoulders".
>(He probably stole this image from someone - I dont know whom?)

Newton: If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have been
standing on the shoulders of giants.

It turns out, though, that several people used the image centuries before
Newton.

I don't mind standing on Trotsky's shoulders once in a while myself, but I
always get this urge to kick him in the head.

Rahul




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