To: dennisw
Trotsky didn't have it in him to be a stone killer like Lenin and StalinRead the whole article by Schwartz. He is offered the opportunity -- but declines -- to denounce Trotsky as "the man who "mercilessly wiped out rebellious anti-Bolshevik soldiers and sailors at Kronstadt." In his view, Trotsky couldn't make an omelette (Communist revolution) without breaking a few eggs (slaughter of innocents).
To: Maximilian
Same applies to Stalin/Mao/Lenin/Kaganovich but multiplied by 1000. Trotsky was pussycat compared to them. As Marx said "Quantity changes quality"
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06/16/2003 6:08:46 PM PDT by
dennisw
To: Maximilian
>>>>He is offered the opportunity -- but declines -- to denounce Trotsky as "the man who "mercilessly wiped out rebellious anti-Bolshevik soldiers and sailors at Kronstadt."<<<<<
Isn't that incredible? Can you believe that there are still people who defend a monster as vile as Leon Trotsky, but still insist on calling themselves conservatives?
Most people who point out that ugly aspect of neo-conservatism, get shouted down as "nativists", "McCarthyites", "reactionaries", "extremists", "anti-semites", etc.
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