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Smart Man (none / 0)
Trotsky wanted the Russian population to be armed against the Stalinist Thermidor!

It seems like he was a smart man. 


"Trotsky agreed that a new socialist state and economy in a country like Russia would not be able to hold out against the pressures of a hostile capitalist world, as well as the internal pressures of its backward economy. The revolution, Trotsky argued, must quickly spread to capitalist countries, bringing about a socialist revolution which must spread world-wide."

by alphasigmookie on 06/26/2008 06:28:15 PM EST

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This is sort of a general point, but (none / 0)
if you have guns because you want a revolution against the government and you let a law stop you, then you weren't really serious about the whole thing in the first place.

by Spencer on 06/26/2008 06:32:34 PM EST

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@ Spencer (none / 0)
Thats why the Revolution was betrayed, the communists were to destroy the state and replace it with a dictatorship of the proletariat (something that Republicans might actually like, quite liberitarian and pro-gun), Stalin and the bureaucratic minions destroyed the revolution and created a neo-Czarist dictatorship in its place, like most revolutions.

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by Nick86 on 06/26/2008 06:43:14 PM EST

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Well... (none / 0)
I am reading the "Revolution Betrayed" by Trotsky and he basically the destruction of the USSR in 1936 by its own inherent class contradictions...so to those who believe that the USSR was an authentic "communist" experiment...please read Trotsky before you make ignorant claims. Indeed, what is interesting is that many of the PNAC/neocons were Trotskytes...makes u wonder doesn't it about the connections btwn the extreme left and right.

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by Nick86 on 06/26/2008 06:40:55 PM EST

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That is true (none / 0)
Lenin and Trotsky's Russia wasn't that bad a place.  Stalin's was hell on earth.

by ProfRich on 06/26/2008 08:48:33 PM EST

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