>>As there isn't any Bolshevik-Leninist to vote so we have to vote for what
>>we have.
>>Of course we don't support Manner as a Stalinist but because his work for
>>example
>>in the Finnish workers revolution. Also we want to show that
>>Communism/Marxism didn't
>>die with Stalinism.
>
>OK, so explain this "of course" to us. Why is it a matter of course that
>you don't support Manner as a Stalinist?
We have strong political differences between Stalinists as we support
Trotsky.
>What difference does it make to your characterization of his historical role?
Unfortunatly I don't know so much about Manner that I could exactly judge
his role. Also when we criticize Manner as a Stalinist we must understand
that the situation in Finland was hard for Communists and most of CP
leadership had to work in other countries and this meant especially in
Soviet Union. So it wasn't easy for Finnish Communists to beging support
Trotsky or any anti-Stalinist tendency. I don't know if there was
any Bolshevik-Leninist group or even individual in Finland before
World War II, at least I don't know any.
>How does it affect your view on Otto-Ville Kuusinen, for instance,
>or the role of the Stalinists in World War II?
>From the base what I know about O-V Kuusinen I think that he was a real arselicker
of Stalin and supported many of his views from the begining.
I'm writing article about Finnish Winter War and People's goverment of
Terijoki where I will handle this question about role of Stalinists. There
I will also look how right/wrong Trotsky was in his writings about Finland
in In defence of Marxism.
>On the positive side, explain briefly for an international audience the
>significance of the Finnish Revolution and the role of the working class in
>it, along with the landless rural workers.
I'm working with article about Finnish Workers Revolution which
should explain this things. However it maybe take awhile to
finish it as I go to army in monday (3. January).
>It's good that you think Communism/Marxism is still alive after the fall of
>Stalinism, and that you characterize something important here as
>"Stalinism" -- but what exactly is it that you consider to have died with
>"Stalinism"?
What died was e.g. counter revolutionary theory about "socialism in
one country" which led to bureaucratic degeneration of Soviet Union.
>And do you think that Marxism somehow was *alive* "with Stalinism"?
I think that there was hardly anything Marxist in Stalinism but that
some "Trotskyist" groups still adhered it.
>These things need clarity if we're going to get all real Marxists and
>revolutionaries together to throw out imperialism and create workers states.
I agree and I make my best to clarify them.
Comradely;
Jari-Pekka Raitamaa, MO-IWC
http://www.marxistworker.org/fi/
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