Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trotsky urged the industrialization oi Russia, and that was "Trotskyism" until he had been kicked out and it became Stalinism. Trotsky urged regimentation oi the Russian peasantry by the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, the peasants to be uprooted from their little holdings and forced onto vast collective farms with tractor; replacing horses and Moscow able at any moment to shut off the gasoline if the peasants got obstreperous. That too was "Trotskyism," bitterly denounced by Stalin until, Trotsky having been ousted, it became and is today Stalinism...
...major premise of "Trotskyism" that Communism cannot be successful in a single country unless it simultaneously is fomented in all countries anc they become presently Communist. On this point, the acts of Stalin show his theory now to be that a success can be made oi Communism in one single country, namely the Soviet Union, and that the bulk of its funds should be devoted to achieving success there at this time, not scattered to sow Communism in other countries. These two points of view are generally accepted today as representing "Trotskyism," on the one hand, and Stalinism...
...minds of neutral observers there is no doubt whatever that Trotsky is an authoritative Communist, Stalin is an even more authoritative Communist, and that -supposing the time ever comes when the Soviet Union is a "success" and has money to spare-Moscow will again shower gold upon Communist parties in other lands, a policy which is so "Trotskyist" today and so sharply distinguished now from what is Stalinist...
Between Cardenas' "community" and the Communism of either Trotsky or Stalin there is every difference, but Mexico is nonetheless frankly a land of proletarian reform. As England's great, liberal Manchester Guardian observed in a gentlemanly salute to Trotsky last week, "Let us hope he will find a sure refuge in Mexico-a revolutionary country where a great revolutionary may be appreciated and understood." At latest reports, Host Diego Rivera had had to return to a hospital with a kidney ailment; Mrs. Trotsky had gone to bed with what seemed to be a recurrence of her malaria; Guest...
...Stalin is Dictator by virtue of his office as Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Russia, finds it convenient to let Molotov be Premier and Kalinin President, as these offices are completely dwarfed by his power...