This Lind is quite a writer, thanks for that link John, i read four or five so far, can't find the trotskyite reference but here's a piece pointing out how the evolution of political thought is a species thing, involves many sources in many nations - newamerica.net
If he mentioned trotskyites it may have been in such a connection ... the name trotskista is not such a pejorative around where the man met with the icepick, it's more used to connote a superior and more civilised manner than that of the stalinistas .... or it used to be, way back, you don't hear it any more for a long time
'The other grounds would be the sort of cult like ways in which highly ideological groups break up over purity of doctrine.'
This could be restated in positive terms, something like 'politics tends to evolve, adapt to circumstance' .... Trotsky actually wasn't considered to be all that doctrinal, certainly not enough for Stalin's taste anyway .... all the old -isms eh, there certainly have been a lot of them, they seem all eventually to get quite tired, and fade |
