Date: 07 Aug 96 13:22:57 EDT
Subject: Re: Stalin explained


What would you have done if you had been Stalin at the time ????.... this is a
way of looking at history which is completely sterile. What would you have done
if you'd been Hitler and you wanted to save humanity by keeping the race pure
???!!
	The key to the Russian revolution is th einternational situation. The job
of the bolsheviks was to hold on as well as they could and work on informing and
inspiring the world's working class to revolt and come to their aid. They
managed this sometimes, but after the civil war, with a working class largely
decimated, the material pressure of a new layer of bureaicrats with their own
interests, an exhausted people, the revolutionaries, including Trotsky, lost the
debate, and Stalin , keeping the old vocabulary, carried out an industrial
revolution in the habitual capitalist way with massive suffering. . From then on
the Societ Union was capitalist capitalist capitalist. If we don't remember it
was capitralist, that accumulation was the central aim (for military purposes
sure), we can understand very little.
John Mullen
Socialisme International 
France



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