Ajit wrote:
>
> history. As long as one holds that historical and dialectical materialism
> is the 'true' theory and the road to truth (as Lenin did), then many crimes
> against humanity can be justified in the name of history and human destiny.
> A Stalin can always justify killing millions of innocent people in the name
> of history and human destiny.
This is too much. Crimes against humanity are/have been justified on
*many* grounds. Stalin's justifications ("agents of Germany"; forced
collectivization; crushing minority nationalism) were all the *antithesis*
of Lenin's Marxist approach, which is not driven by "history and human
destiny" but flesh and blood men and women in class-divided society.
Bill Burgess
