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A note on Lenin & Trotsky

In Reply to: Marx, Lenin & Trotsky posted by Porgie Tirebiter on December 08, 1999 at 15:43:40:

: Lenin and Trotsky were not only learned Marxist scholars and theorists but in addition were trying to build the world's first workers' state.

This point alone is worthy of reflection.

ANYONE can criticize capitalism.

Chomsky, Calhoun, Bakunin, etc., etc., etc., have all done so admirably.

But have they ACTUALLY put socialism in PRACTICE? Under the BEST of conditions, even?

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