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[QUOTE]Originally posted by DT: [QB] I just saw your proverb, Omega. I know this is belated, but I'll quickly comment on it. It does not surprise me in the least that it is Polish, as the Polish ruling class has long been quite reactionary. For example, their actions following Versailles. Instead of helping their Slavic brethren throw off the shackles of Tsarism, which had opressed the Poles as well, they prosecuted a war against the Russian workers. This resulted in a great blow to international socialism. Particularly at the Battle of Warsaw which, had we won, would've led to a socialist uprising in Poland (which happened anyway, but was brutally supressed). BEGIN TANGENT Leon Trotsky was able to, within four years, form a mass of workers in a backwards nation which had spent three years being pounded in WWI into a fighting force that defeat counterrevolutionary Whites, Poles, and the imperialist intervention of the US, France, Japan and England. Impressive. END TANGENT The defeat of the workers outside Warsaw would be a fatal blow to internationalism. Without the revolution succeeding there, or in Germany in 1923 (which almost certainly would've succeeded had their been a worker's state bordering it) it led to the defeat of the Trotsky socialist and rise of the reactionary Stalinist regime. Let us consider the opinions of Stalin and Trotsky as to the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Regime Shortly before Hitler's rise to power, the Germany Communist Party (KPD) and Social Democrats (SPD) commanded the votes of over 13 million voters, more than Hitler's fascists. However, instead of combining their efforts for a united front, the KPD stood with the Stalnist line that the SPD was a variety of fascism, social fascism as they called it, and that it should be opposed and no agreements made with it. In 1930, Trotsky wrote that a successful defensive struggle against fascism, he wrote, "means a policy of closing ranks with the majority of the German working class and forming a united front with the Social Democratic and non-party workers against the fascist threat." On January 27, 1932, Trotsky made this reply to the Stalinist line that the victory of Hitler would be beneficial for the ComIntern. "Fascism is not merely a system of reprisals, of brutal force and of police terror. Fascism is a particular governmental system based on the uprooting of all elements of proletarian democracy within bourgeois society." In April of that same year, Trotsky made this statement as to what MUST be done by the Soviet leadership if Hitler gains power. "Upon receiving the telegraphic communication of this event, I would sign an order for the mobilization of the reserves." Now, unfortunately, it would be the Polish workers who suffered at the hands of the Nazis. Yet, one cannot find it somewhat kharmic that the destruction of the Polish state occured by the Stalnist and Hitler regimes. Of course, I don't believe in kharma, so I can only blame it on the short sightedness of the ruling class and the destructive policies which they push. Just a thought... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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