Comments on: Trotsky Reconsidered: Claude Lefort’s Perspective http://insurgentnotes.com/2013/03/trotsky-reconsidered-claude-leforts-perspective/ Journal of Communist Theory and Practice Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:33:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Karen http://insurgentnotes.com/2013/03/trotsky-reconsidered-claude-leforts-perspective/#comment-1604 Karen Mon, 01 Apr 2013 02:06:53 +0000 http://insurgentnotes.com/?p=2003#comment-1604 Isn’t it a bit fog-inducing to try to split hairs and sort out who was “revolutionary” and who was not in the Bolshevik Central Committee? Things are immediately clarified and make much more sense if one takes the perspective that none of the Bolsheviks were “revolutionary,” but that in fact their main goal, the statist one of taking power, establishing a dictatorship (“of the proletariat” of course), centralizing all functions in their hands, etc., precisely means and can mean nothing but counter-revolution. On day one after the October revolution, they put the brakes on the popular uprising and deliberately put an end to it. Yes, later the Left Opposition made quibbles with Stalin and so forth. But they never changed their fundamental counterrevolutionary idea that the Party and the State should be in control.

For an anti-statist, what stands out about Trotsky is that he was responsible for massacring the Kronstadt rebels and the revolutionary peasants of the Ukraine. He favored labor camps for dissenters, militarization of labor, strictest discipline in the factories and always increasing productivity. Big surprise that the workers hated him.

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