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Re: one cannot seize power, one must end it...

Posted by: don T. on June 12, 1997 at 01:30:45:

In Reply to: Re: one cannot seize power, one must end it... posted by Chris on June 10, 1997 at 15:25:07:

> Lenin and Trotsky caused the failure of the workers revolution by using it to
> ensure that they took power rather than using it to destroy power.

The reason the revolution failed was because it didn't spread to Germany, if there was a Bolshevik party there to organise the well developed working class then we might be living in a very different world.

It wasn't Trotsky who systematically executed people from different revolutionary backgrounds. He was too damn busy directing the Red Army. It was Joe Stalin who executed ALL revolutionaries who were around in 1917. Check out Trotsky's History of The Russian Revolution.


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