Re: Not fade away

["Jurriaan Bendien" <bendien@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you trying to play a Stalinist interrogator now trying to extract a
confession ? I just published one. Look matey, because I respect facts and
historical truth, of course I realise that that Russian had both decimation
and bureaucratic rule, and if you are still hung up on that, and then try to
tell me I should put it behind me, then you are like Melvin P. who tells me
off about talking about sex and then starts talking about prostitution. I
don't have the patience for that, I am sorry. Just one little thought
experiment. Suppose that the international socialist movement had taken
Trotsky's analysis of fascism seriously and acted on it. What would have
been the outcome ? Would the number of Russian men killed in in the war
against fascism have been only 1 million ?

For the rest, I discuss Russian issues with my friend Chris who actually
lives in Moscow, and not with somebody in Argentina. And if Chris says that
somebody is talking crap about the Russians, I tend to believe him rather
than some biblical fundamentalist trying to spread the true teachings of
Saint Joseph.

I respect you and all, we usually agree about almost everything in
correspondence, but death is real and eternal life is a neoconservative
strategy for the propagation of more capitalism.

J.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Jurriaan Bendien" <bendien@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: Not fade away


> We may move on whenever you wish.
>
> But this is not a non sequitur. Russians had, so to say, two options
> (reasons why are a different issue): either this systematic
> decimation or bureaucratic rule.
>
> You may hate to admit this, but this is the truth. And it is on this
> foundation that any reasonable vision of "what was it that went
> wrong?" should be construed.




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