[Edited Message Follows] Historically, Mark, your description of Bland's rhetoric is that of all Stalinist groups who cared to opine on the differences between Lenin and Trotsky, of which there were many, prior to 1917, is my understanding as well. Which is why it takes up so much of the writings on the subject. Of course 1917 whipped the slate clean only resurrected after Lenin died. There had been *many* difference between both leaders of the Russian Revolution but in the area of tactics primarily. The biggest one was in the immediate post-Civil War at the 11th Party Congress over the issue of the role of unions in the workers state.
I read the piece by the pro-Stalin writer that Hari posted from his group in India, Revolutionary Democracy. It is by one witness who tries to line up all the ducks in order to make Stalin appear innocent of what Lenin charged him with. One little fly in the ointment is that this writer, this witness, in response to Khrushchev's attack on Stalin in his writings notes (not as a factoid in a footnote but in the text of her letter) that Khrushchev in a "don't ya' know" kind of voice, was in the Trotskyist opposition in his youth, around 1924, over issues of party democracy. He was in the Left Opposition for, figuratively speaking, about a day. To even raise this betrays a kind of sad desperation by this writer, Maria Ulyanova. David -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31204): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31204 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] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
