tpkq@charm.UUCP (Timothy Kerwin) (02/15/84)
>> "The Socialists have brought you Stalin. . ."
It's true that Stalin and his successors have tried to use the
vocabulary of socialism to justify their material privileges and their
abrogation of political rights in the Soviet Union. But this is
certainly not an indictment of Marxism or socialism. For a Marxist
analysis of the rise of the reactionary bureaucracy in the Soviet
Union, I refer you to "The Revolution Betrayed" by Leon Trotsky
(Pathfinder Press, 1972, translation by Max Eastman, first edition
1937).