tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post9075025974982169840..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: The Melanie Baddeley "Affair"Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-63096008895372857212015-05-30T18:42:23.702+01:002015-05-30T18:42:23.702+01:00BTW, has anyone ever seen Dave Conway and David Ll...BTW, has anyone ever seen Dave Conway and David Lloyd George in the same room? I think we should be told!asquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-30121386927278280972015-05-30T08:13:58.228+01:002015-05-30T08:13:58.228+01:00Phil, my point is that Stalinism was simply a cont...Phil, my point is that Stalinism was simply a continuation of Leninism. Stalin was not a mistake - as Solzhenitsyn made clear in the Gulag Archipelago, the mass deportations and murders happened under Lenin, and Montefiore's The Young Stalin paints a very clear picture of Stalin as Lenin's chosen man, at least until the very end. As for Trotsky, he was no angel. It is wishful thinking that he would have "saved" the revolution - he dreamed of continuous war, which is why the others ganged up to do away with him. The USSR under Trostky would have doubtless swallowed up as many millions of lives, only via gunpowder and famine rather than canal building and... famine.<br /><br />The crimes of the USSR (and China) are somehow more palatable because it did not fall while it did its worst, like Nazism. When the Islamic State has "normalised" to a kind of Saudi Arabia, I suppose we will open diplomatic relations? The common thread here is utopianism - be it the BNP or SWP: organisations that have faith in a kind of paradise "cleansed" of undesirable classes - be they black or bourgeois. <br /><br />They all, essentially, result in evil.<br /> Speedynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-19676035613288005532015-05-29T16:33:20.598+01:002015-05-29T16:33:20.598+01:00I met Mel Baddeley during her BNP days. Even then,...I met Mel Baddeley during her BNP days. Even then, she was always in the wrong party, and not at all like the unlamented Albert Walker, Mike Coleman, and friends. I repeat what I said the other day, this is a far from perfect council but then they didn't win election so much as you lost it. There'll be a lot of opposing to do, you'd better get in gear for it.asquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-62083064040637742842015-05-29T11:55:30.924+01:002015-05-29T11:55:30.924+01:00Feeble. I've known plenty of Trots, and not on...Feeble. I've known plenty of Trots, and not one of them has ever expressed any enthusiasm for Stalin's purges - nor, indeed, have their respective parties. You don't get to be a BNP parliamentary candidate without supporting the BNP's actual policies.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07009879034507926661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-70873780145841460062015-05-29T08:03:54.911+01:002015-05-29T08:03:54.911+01:00All fair enough, but didn't you belong to a Le...All fair enough, but didn't you belong to a Leninist party around the same time, and now you're a loyal Labour Party member? <br /><br />Just because your group swore allegiance to another brand of mass murderers, did that make it really any better? <br /><br />And no, there is plenty of evidence that Stalin was Lenin's chosen man - the claim that he disfigured Bolshevism is plainly false. <br /><br />So you're saying people can't change? Speedynoreply@blogger.com