- Capitalism and Alternatives -

Re: Leadership

In Reply to: Re: Leadership posted by GlennyRed on June 06, 1997 at 01:10:50:

> Everything you say is right except about your assumptions of the theories of
> Lenin and Trotsky. The Russian Revolution occured in the way it did because
> Russia was such a backward country. It had never been fully capitalistic and
> so the people had never transcended the political sophistication level of the
> peasantry. The time was right for revolution in the cities anyhow and so
> Trotsky and Lenin rightly, if not a little artificially, pursued it. It was
> the situation that skewed their ideas. In an industrialized nation the
> revolution would have been far more in line with their theories.

No, because they retain the power of the state- to have a revolution before the majority of the people want it is a sure fire way to get yourself a counter revolution - transitionary demands are a sure way of getting socialists branded stupid, as some conservative far rightly points out that they are talking economic nonsense, or some labour politician points out that teh SWP's resoponse to everything is to call for a strike...they treat people like dirt, with disdain for their ignorance, their political structures are undemoractic and deeply factional.....

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