Re: Stalinist aspects of Trotsky

["Chris, London" <100423.2040@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Malecki:
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From: malecki@xxxxxxxxxx (Robert Malecki)
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 10:23:18 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: Re: Stalinist aspects of Trotsky

Chris,

Your undialecticle approach of setting the table for this stuff is fairly
unprincipled and opportunist. You are trying to put a rib on a latter that
does not exist. It is only in your liberal head which lies far above any
kind of living reality that you can expect and answer to you pretentions.

So leave this crap out as long as you like. But comparing the line of the
Bolshevik party in the civil war to "Trotskyism" vs Stalinism in a later
period is like trying to create Hoody Doody Time..

Warm Regards
malecki in exile



Chris Burford
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Hi Robert,

I don't feel I have a very good understanding of your thinking.
Although I believe you value the contributions of Trotsky,
and call for a party, I have wondered at times whether your role
on this l'st is more like that of a catalyst or a Greek chorus.

I do pick up that you try to put a working class point of view
in working class language, and are suspicious and even hating
towards liberals. You rightly suspect that members of the
"educated classes" are likely to side with the ruling class.

So, considering you suspect me of being a liberal, thanks for
the warm regards.

You too can use language that others do not understand. I do not
know what you mean be Howdy Doody Time. I fear that may
make me a bit ridiculous in your eyes, but we all have different
languages and we can all look silly to an unsympathetic person.

I am also not sure what you mean by a rib and a latter.

Could you please pinpoint a bit more precisely why the way
I put the question about Stalin and Trotsky is "undialectical".

My basic controversial proposal was that like Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin
were Bolsheviks. Can we really rule out discussion of the similarities
just because it is so much easier on this l'st to have fire
fights about the differences?

So please, can you pin-point your criticism more precisely? Why were
my remarks undialectical?

Regards,

Burford in London.


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