I have no opinion on the Last Testament of Lenin and care little about it. But I've been following this thread, reading the posts, and...
> https://www.marxists.org/archive/bland/1991/x01/lenins-testament.pdf Bill Bland's paper does not persuade me. The narrative strategy seems to be one of throwing shit on the wall to see what sticks. Almost half of Bland's documented sins of Trotsky is pre-1917 when Trotsky was a left Menshevik, well before Lenin was recorded as saying "Bravo Comrade Trotsky" in a 1917 public speech that a diarist recorded, https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/cw/pdf/lenin-cw-vol-26.pdf. Someone who believes Bland's polemic may have a hard time explaining how the party that hated Trotsky so much assigned him to organize and lead the Red Army. Certainly, it was one of the most important assignments the Bolshevik party could make at that time - and to give such a critical position to a person subject to Russian anti-Jewish racism no less. Does Bland address this some place? Thanks for posting this. Mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31199): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31199 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107261134/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
