On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:59 PM, c b<[email protected]> wrote: > From: Jim Devine > > I don't think the discussion is helped by references to an > emotion-laden term such as "Trotskyists." > > ^^^^^ > CB: On a related point, what do you think of use of the term "Stalinists" ?
in both cases, if one wants to have a discussion, it's better to talk about specifics. Just as with Trotskyists, there are all sorts of different kinds of Stalinists -- and they often disagree with each other. After all, the Vietnamese Stalinists were quite upset when the Chinese Stalinists invaded (at the end of the US war on Vietnam). I'd bet that when USSR occupied much of Eastern Europe, many of the Stalinists there were a mite peeved to find that Stalin's folks had chosen others to run their countries. -- Jim Devine / "All science would be superfluous if the form of appearance of things directly coincided with their essence." -- KM _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
