[Marxism] Socialist tasks versus national tasks?

[dwalters@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

I don't think the quotes prove Louis' points at all.

Trotsky was laying out the relationship between what the Red Army was doing in
1921 and *its* effects on the issue of self-determination in a very specific
instance.

*Some* of this is dirvived from Permanent Revolution, a concept it seems most
don't understand...that is the intermingling of 'socialist' and 'democratic'
tasks, and the rejection of schematic and mechanistic approach to revolution,
just the opposite of what people criticize PR for.

Throughout PR, the *emphsis* is NOT on socialist tasks, it's on *democratic*
ones, in that the revolution cannot carry out the national tasks without
eventually bringing the working class to power and elminating the political
power of the so-called "national" bourgeois. The point is that an anti-
imperialist fight *starts* as democratic revolution and all that implies:
united fronts, anti-imperialist alliances, and so on. Most Trotskyists, at
least, do not understand this, and believe, as the critics of PR do, that PR
demands agitation and mobilization around socialist tasks only. Nothing could
be furhter from the truth, and this is a theme that runs throughout LT's
writings on the subject.

David

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