[Marxism] Mission to Moscow

[S. Artesian]

If just "some innocent souls may have been and in fact where trapped in the 
self  contained logic of the gulag and the violence of the bureaucracy" then 
we can say a mistake was made, ask for an apology and rehabilitation and get 
on  with it, it being apprehension of the real historical significance of 
the period.  But it wasn't just some innocent souls sacrificed to the 
self-contained logic,  the monopoly on distorting, if not demolishing,  the 
form, content, scope and substance of revolution claimed by the Soviet with 
a big S bureaucrats, it was the life of a whole class, of a whole generation 
of workers.

Anybody who thinks WW2 could have happened without the defeats of the 
workers in Germany, Spain, France, China,-- the workers struggles in Cuba 
and Vietnam, and doesn't think that the "leadership" of the only crack in 
the edifice of modern capitalism had something to do with those defeats 
either isn't paying attention, doesn't want to know, or is lining up to be 
another hot lunch on the bourgeoisie's plate.
Coming to grips with the future, with the potential for revoluton in the 
current predicament of capital, means grasping exactly the role played by 
the bureaucracy then in deflecting the impulse to revolution-- in Spain, in 
France, in Germany.... and post-war in administering the impulse to 
capitalist restoration.

As for the intellectual fellow-travelers of Trotskyism jumping ship and 
swimming over to the bourgeoisie's gunboats--- Big F--king Deal.  Samey-same 
with the fellow travelers of the CP.


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