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I think Waistline is spot on. I wrote to Grover Furr offlist and also told him that it was the Program of the Opposition that I found the term "Stalinism" first use May, 1927), at least by Trotsky and at least in terms of what I found in English. It is highly likely, again as Waistline noted, that it may of been used by others and mostly like in the form of "Stalinists", plural, in impling "supporters of" as opposed to an "ism" which has deeper political implications. I would suspect that the great Oppositionist and former President of Ukraine, Christian Rakovsky, the person with the deepest understanding, from an Oppositional point of view, of the rise of the bureaucracy in Russia, is likely to of used it in either his Russian or Ukrainian language polemics as early as 1924 or 1925, but that's a guess. David ________________________________________________ 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
