I agree with Doug Greene - "Neo-Stalinist conspiracism is a similar sort of conspiracism on the Left. And I believe that Marxists should train our members in reason and science — we are the true heirs to the heritage of the Radical Enlightenment <https://www.leftvoice.org/enlightenment-betrayed-jonathan-israel-marxism-and-the-enlightenment-legacy>, after all. Exposing the conspiracism of Losurdo, Martens, Bland, and Furr is a useful exercise in promoting critical thinking, materialist dialectics, and historical analysis. Always and everywhere, conspiracy theories are obstacles to reason and progress. If we want to really know the world, then we cannot use conspiracist nonsense. Rather, reason and historical truth can help us truly understand and change the world in the wider struggle for communism."
Exposing the lies of the neo-Stalinists is indeed necessary but nauseating work. It just about requires a hot shower afterwards to cleanse the filth! n Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM Jim Farmelant via groups.io <jimfarmelant= [email protected]> wrote: > Last month, Left Voice ran an interview > <https://www.leftvoice.org/bloodstains-on-the-confession-the-moscow-trials-and-their-defenders/> > with Doug Greene concerning his new book *In Stalin’s Shadow: Leon > Trotsky and the Legacy of the Moscow Trials* > <https://resistancebooks.org/product/in-stalins-shadow-leon-trotsky-and-the-legacy-of-the-moscow-trials/> > (London: Resistance Books, 2025), where he discussed the Moscow trials > and their latter-day apologists like Domenico Losurdo, Ludo Martens, > Grover Furr, and Bill Bland. > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39749): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39749 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116814900/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
