Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state?

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Doss wrote:
> If a Georgian with a goofy accent can be a Great
> Russian chauvinist.

What does his accent have to do with anything? More to the point,
Stalin's individual characteristics have little to do with the *social
process* at work in the USSR, which Trotsky accurately described as
Thermidor. The Great Russian chauvinism went hand in hand with hostility
to gay rights, feminism, experimentalism in the arts, workers democracy
and every other emancipatory impulse in the USSR. Stalin was
transmitting the social pressure of Czarist officialdom, which was
re-emerging in the 1920s in the vacuum created by the civil war, and a
general rightward climate brought on by imperialism and the failure to
make socialist revolution in the West--a failure in itself directly
attributable to the Kremlin's own lack of Marxist insights.


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