Considerations
I must admit to loving the Dombrovsky. It is simply brilliant. Digressions of flora and aesthetics abound with vivid characterization and flawed humanity. i read on someone's blog that Stalin is everyone. I am not sure, though Trotsky feared that ultimately the machine would eclipse all else and exist to devour. Lenin was fearful of Trotsky's Eternal Revolution: sadly, both of these portents proved palpable and inescapable.
posted by jon faith at
2:13 PM
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Really, how was it that Trotsky took it up the ass? For me, his ideas were much more rationale, but isn't that the way it always is? How old was Trotsky at the being of the revolution, 40 or 50 years old? Would like to read more about the man and why he chose Mexico. Cheers mate.
Trotsky, like most of both the best and worst of Marxism, was an excellent diagnostician but fairly poor technician. His ideas about socialism being less centralized were radical, far-too-much for those who coveted power in the wrath of the Revolution.
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