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On Mar 10, 2010, at 9:49 PM, New Tet wrote: >> >> Radek's lunacy struck a chord with the German Communist >> ultraleftists... > > This feeds my long-held paranoia that there was a bit of anti- > Semitism in > Stalin and his cohorts > especially during their conspiracy against Trotsky. > You are more than a bit right about Stalin's anti-Semitism. But Radek was not one of "Stalin's cohorts--he was very much a wild card, and in 1921-1922 he mainly aligned himself with Zinoviev. However, in 1923 he sided with the "Moscow"" (pro-Trotsky) Opposition and remained aligned with Trotsky until 1928 when he was the first to follow the "Leningrad Opposition" (Zinoviev and Kamenev) in their capitulation to Stalin. He served Stalin as a journalist until the Moscow Trials when he was "convicted" and murdered by GULAG rather than by execution. Shane Mage > Porphyry in his Abstinance from Animal Flesh suggests that there are > appropriate offerings to all the Gods, and to the highest the only > offering acceptable is silence. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
