> > Newsflash - Trotsky did a lot more than "alienate" himself from the Soviet > leadership (aka Stalin faction) and much earlier than the mid-1930s. He was > expelled from the party and sent into exile in 1927 by daring to oppose > that faction's domestic policies as well as its suicidal policy that caused > the decimation of the second Chinese Revolution in 1925 - 27 by > subordinating the CCP to the control of the Kuomintang as well as making > Chang Kai-Shek the honorary President of the Comintern - right before his > massacre of 50,000 in Shanghai! >
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2021, 17:24 Andrew Stewart <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> b-Trotsky unfortunately alienated himself from the Soviet leadership by >> the mid-Thirties. Regardless of his brilliance as a writer, he was >> extremely haughty, elitist, and self-important to the point of being a >> nuisance. He used to flaunt his brilliance by quoting Flaubert in the >> middle of Central Committee meetings, annoying everyone by saying how smart >> he was. Deutscher said that the Fourth International was stillborn. >> > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7935): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/7935 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/82013043/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
