Re: Kronstadt

[malecki@xxxxxxxxxx (Robert Malecki)]

>I think Paul has hit the nail right on thehead. The type of argumentation
>normally used about Kronstadt is of a shibboleth sort. It is usd by anarchists
>as a smokescreen, often allowing them not to have to defend the record of the
>anarchists in russia in 1917, or anywhere else ... cos the record ain't rosy.
>jc mullen
>Socialisme International
>
The whole point is that Kronstadt was one small incident in relation to the
problems facing us today. If you want to discuss history. How about the
United Front vs the popular front  or red front or anti facist front. How
about a revolutionary international vs socialism in one country. How about
the trade unions. Or even is this and age of decaying imperialism, state
capitalisn. new liberalism or whatever.Or the trade unions or the womens
question..

These are things that are facing us. Not Kronstadt and the various different
tendencies trying to hit each other on the head. If we are going to fight,
lets at least fight about something confronting the urban poor and
proletariat today...

That is part of what i mean by "Howdy Dooty" time. But in a sense it was
more directed at a person who was taking history out of its historical
context and painting it as some- Lenin,Trotsky vs Stalin crap. That is Howdy
Dooty time for me...

Warm regards
malecki in exile..




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