Re: [Marxism] Lenin, Trotsky and Permanent Revolution (was BoliviaDiscussion)

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Whether Lenin in 1905 was right about Trotsky or not I do not know nor
do I care. But his remarks on Trotsky certainly apply to some/many of
Trotsky's epigones:

*****Such a composition of the social basis of the possible
revolutionary-democratic dictatorship will, of course, affect the
compositon of the revolutionary government and inevitably lead to the
participation, or even predominance, within it of the most heterogeneous
representatives of revolutionary democracy. It would be extremely
harmful to entertain any illusions on this score. If that windbag
Trotsky now writes (unfortunately, side by side, with Parvus) that "a
father Gapon could appear only once," that "there is no room for a
second [292] Gapon," he does so simply because he is a windbag. If there
were no room in Russia for a second Gapon, there would be no room for a
truly "great," consummated democratic revolution."*****
        Lenin, CW, 8, 291-292

If we are going to have a unified left movement in the united states
these old quarrels have to be relegated to the dustbin.

I wonder how many subscribers even open up the posts containing
"Lenin/Trotsk" or "permanent revolution in the subject line. I've
stopped reading them myself. And I read only posts by NEstor with
"Bolivia" or "MOrales" in the subject line.

Carrol

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