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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JohnM who wrote (103601)6/30/2003 8:44:09 PM
From: marcos  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The neocons are evangelical, as were the trotskistas ... and, neither of them very good at it, to date ... both are/were vitally concerned with spreading their gospel overseas though .... so there are some similarities over and above the historical roots of one in the other

' The differences may be briefly formulated thus: Trotsky declared that it was impossible to build socialism in Russia because the peasants did not want it. That it would only be possible to do so if the workers of the West revolted, and he was right. Stalin declared that it was impossible to wait for the Western workers to revolt before building socialism, because they were not likely to revolt in the immediate future. Therefore socialism could be built in Russia only if the Party used the peasantry, and he was also right.

However, that the Western workers were not Communist, Trotsky could never admit. He could only assert that they would be soon. The Russian peasants were not Communist, Stalin could never admit, but he could try to compel them to be. As a result Trotsky retreated into utopianism, while Stalin proceeded to establish a minority dictatorship built on terror. '

mars.wnec.edu

... the other group you were thinking of may have been bukharinistas?
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