Marx Centenary socia list
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-03-17Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 7 →
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'During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonise them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the 'consolation' of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge Zhivkov, Husak, Honecker, Ceausescu, Jaruzelski: Marxists? Lenin's legacy and oppose Marxism, they sought to dress up their own views in 'Marxist' terminology, and falsely to brand Trotsky and other critics as 'counter-revolutionary' opponents of Marx and Lenin. insistence that Russia could go on from the revolution to achieve socialism only with the aid of the proletariat of the West was vilified and suppressed.
Similarly, from 1923 to '28, Stalin's line of economic concessions to the prosperous sections of the peasantry,
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•. not Stalin's heirs ! and vulgarising it'
'State and Lenin Revolution