On 8/11/15 11:32 AM, Charlie wrote: > David S. wrote: "The mainstream, the conventional wisdom, etc., treat > Conquest as authoritative. He wrote on the subject for 50 years with > his reputation intact at his death..." > > Mainstream professional historians have rejected conclusions by Conquest > as well as his method. They have avoided putting his professional > reputation on the line because of his dominance of the field, which is > entangled with the pressure on academics to keep anti-Soviet, > anti-Stalin propaganda alive. But we go in circles; you were given > citations and references at a link I already posted: > http://www.stalinsociety.org/2015/08/05/grover-furr-on-robert-conquest/ >
From the first sentence of Grover Furr's article cited above: "Robert Conquest, after Leon Trotsky arguably the chief anticommunist and anti-Stalin propagandist of the 20th century, has died." Actually, Trotsky was killed by Stalin because he defended communism. Communism can only be built through the democratic control not over the means of production but over the workers state. In the early days of the Soviet republic, workers debated domestic and foreign policies. They organized themselves into factions, supporting the Left Opposition or other blocs. Stalin was the executioner of the revolution, abrogating these rights and turning the USSR into a police state. Most people on the left understand this. It is only freaks like Grover Furr who believe otherwise. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
