Re: re AUT: Seeking info on Negri and Fortunadi

[Thomas Seay <entheogens@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Harald Beyer-Arnesen <haraldba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  but Trotsky> himself surely
> was not only a Stalinist, but the greatest
> theoretical apologist
> for Stalinism,

Harald, you are right to raise the point that there is
little difference, if any, between the attitude of a
Stalin or a Trotsky.  However, I think it is
misleading to call Rifondazione Communista "stalinist"
or even "stalinoid".  It is a social-democratic
parlamentarian party, not a vanguardist one.  It is
made up of a hodge-podge of people to the Left of the
old PCI.

I am on the chat list of the youth section of
Rifondazione Communista, and there are a few there who
call themselves trotskyists.  It strikes me that
they know nothing of the despotic Trotsky which you
cite.  They identify with a mythical trotsky that is
"anti-stalinist".  My impression is that many of these
young people are revolutionary and, for the time
being, have assumed the label of trotskyist.  Most of
them seem too non-dogmatic to be dyed-in-the-wool
hard-core trotskyists.

In any case, criticize as we might the Rifondazione
Communista, it takes  a real leap of imagination to
extrapolate from the fact that there are some
trotskyists in RC that RC is stalinist and/or fascist.

I think we should be careful about loosely throwing
around terms like "stalinist" or "fascist".
Generalizing blurs distinctions and before you know
it, everybody who does not think like "we" do becomes
"stalinist" or "fascist".

Thomas



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