Adolfo claims Molotov-Ribbentropp = Brest-Litovsk

[m-14970@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Hugh Rodwell)]

Adolf-O really gets aereated in his latest post. Probably because he can
feel a breeze or two in his sails from the unexpected support of Doug H for
his theory of the omnipotent enemy (Louis P's support was a foregone
conclusion). He writes among other nonsense:

>(can Hugh Rodwell guarantee that
>this was no Veronica with trousers?)

Veronica was nice. I miss her, hammerklavier and all. Funny the way Adolf
seems obsessed by her memory. Didn't she whisper in her husky way that he
turned her on when he was *so* domineering?

Later in his lamentable posting, Adolf-O misquotes in his usual slovenly
fashion:

>To call such people "marxist" just because they can afford to use a computer
>and subscribe to a "Marxism list"

Where did I ever call Comrade a 'marxist'? Why use quotes when you're not
quoting?


>I think that your hubbab about the "grevious loss of Mr. Comrade"

Where did I ever write about the 'grevious loss of Mr. Comrade'? It's quite
on the cards that his noisy show of unsubscribing was aimed at
destabilizing the list. On the other hand, it's quite on the cards that
uncontrolled flaming such as Adolf and others like him indulge in is also
aimed at destabilizing the list. They should bear this in mind.

He also paints himself into a corner:

>a challenge on the table to substantiate their anti-communist and
>anti-Marxist, pro-imperialist and reactionary analysis of history regarding
>the historical experience of the proletarian dictatorship and comrade
>Stalin's leadership?

but fails to mention why he has never ever (nor any of his other Maoist
chums, for that matter, such as Quispe, Chris, Gina, Jay or Rolf) quoted
anything Stalin himself had to say (at the actual time, untouched by
retroactive censorship) on their favourite historical topics, like October,
winning the Civil War, arselicking the kulaks in the later stages of the
NEP, liquidating the kulaks in the early stages of forced
industrialization, the Shanghai massacre of 1927, the Nazi takeover in
Germany, the defeat of the Spanish revolution, the show trials in Moscow,
the Hitler alliance, the strike-breaking (scabbing and snitching)
encouraged by the CPs in the imperialist countries during the war in the
holy name of the imperialist war effort, the crushing of workers'
democratic rights in Eastern Europe after the war, the betrayal of the
Greek revolution at the end of the war in cahoots with Adolf's friends the
British imperialists and his great buddy Churchill, the attempt to crush
the Yugoslav revolution in 1948, the show trials in Eastern Europe, the
utter absence of any creative or imaginative freedom in science and the
arts under Stalinism, the total lack of any independent working-class
organizational freedom under the regime, the support given to Chiang
Kai-Shek in 1949 with the Soviet embassy shipping over to Taiwan with the
nationalists, the complete dependence on a system of police spies and the
encouragement of scabbing and snitching on a quite monstrous scale to
prevent any and every attempt at developing independent revolutionary
socialist solutions to the many problems of the Soviet Union under the
bureaucratic regime, etc, etc.


He continues:

>There is nothing but anti-proletarian feeling behind such assertions as that
>Stalin made an "alliance" with Hitler. Did Lenin made an Alliance with
>German imperialism by signing the treaty of Brest then?

'Anti-proletarian feeling', eh? Something Stalinist ideologues have in
their bones. Did Lenin ever sign a ten-year non-aggression pact with the
imperialists? With guarantees of mutual neutrality if one of them should be
attacked by a third state?  Including a *secret protocol* dividing up
Eastern Europe into Soviet and German spheres of interest?! Mutually agreed
predatory expansionism! Protocols so secret that the Stalinist bureaucrats
lied about their existence until the late 1980s? Preceded by intensive
secret negotiations involving the imperialist great powers Great Britain
and France?

Some Brest-Litovsk! -- after a couple of decades of 'victorious progress
towards socialism (sorry, they'd done that, I mean) communism'. Perhaps
allies is too honourable a term for Stalin and Hitler -- partners-in-crime
more like.

And who does Adolf think negotiated the Brest-Litovsk treaty? The Eagle of
the Caucasus? Some lickspittle yesman like Molotov? Not a chance, it was
Trotsky. And were the negotiations *secret*? You bet they weren't, and this
had the German imperialist thugs frothing at the mouth.

Adolfo has the gall to compare the Brest-Litovsk peace -- which Lenin
referred to as an 'unfortunate, immeasurably severe, infinitely humiliating
peace when the strong has the weak by the throat' (Pravda, 24 Feb 1918),
negotiated in February 1918 just a couple of months after the victory of
October --  with the Molotov-Ribbentropp pact, negotiated in August 1939,
six years after the Nazis came to power in Germany. Any claims of military
weakness or unreadiness to meet German imperialist aggression must ring
totally hollow, as hollow as Chamberlain's 'Peace in our time', if we are
to believe the Stalinists' glorification of the Great Leader as strategist
and analyst extraordinary of world politics. Six years to prepare against
the German imperialist threat, and the result is a secret treaty of
mutually approved annexation!!

To resist the German imperialists of his day, Lenin and the majority of the
Bolshevik Central Committee, though forced to accept the humiliating terms
of Brest-Litovsk, had the following perspective (note of February 24,
1918):

        ... the systematic, serious, steady work of preparing a revolutionary
        war, the creation of discipline and an army, the putting into order of
        the railways and food affairs.

(Guess whose leadership was instrumental in creating the Red Army! Trotsky.
Guess who put the railways into order! Trotsky.)

Can Adolf or any of his crew dig up quotes from Stalin asserting the
necessity for a 'revolutionary war' as the way to defeat Hitler? Or
descriptions of the severity and humiliation involved in a pact with the
German imperialists?

No, first the pact was vaunted to the skies, and then the workers of Russia
were sacrificed in a historically unnecessary war, not in the name of
proletarian revolution but in the name of Great Russian Patriotism.

And the Comintern, which had turned itself inside out several times over by
1943 with its slavish adherence to the zigzags of Stalinist policy, was
ditched in that year as a gesture to appease Stalin's imperialist allies
(comrades-in-arms -- the Soviet workers were turned into comrades-in-arms
of the Great Power imperialists!!).

Stalinist historiogaphy is utterly without shame.


Cheers,

Hugh




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