Lenin on Trotsky

[SHAWGI TELL <v600a8e6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Lenin states:

        In 1903 he [Trotsky] was a Menshevik; he abandoned
        Menshevism in 1904, RETURNED to the Mensheviks in
        1905 and merely flaunted ultra-revolutionary phrases;
        in 1906 he left them AGAIN; at the end of 1906 he
        advocated electoral agreements with the Cadets (i.e.,
        he was in fact ONCE MORE with the Mensheviks.
        (Lenin. Coll. Works, Vol. 16, p.391).

Lenin states:

        [Trotsky had never had] any 'physiognomy' at all; the
        only thing he does have is a HABIT of changing sides,
        of SKIPPING from the liberals to the Marxists and BACK
        AGAIN, of mouthing SCRAPS OF CATCHWORDS AND BOMBASTIC
        PARROT PHRASES.  (Lenin. Coll. Works, Vol. 20, p.160).

Lenin states:

        Trotsky's MAJOR mistake is that he IGNORES the bourgeois
        character of the revolution and has NO clear conception
        of the transition from this revolution to the socialist
        revolution. (Lenin. Coll. Works, Vol. 15, p.371).


Shawgi Tell
University at Buffalo
Graduate School of Education
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