On the ocassion of the 140th birth anniversary of Joseph Stalin we asked Professor Grover Furr to share with us his thoughts on some issues surrounding Stalin and the period of his leadership. Grover Furr, a Professor of medieval english literature at Montclair State University in New Jersey, is well-known for his research and writings on a vast range of issues about Soviet history. Some of his most famous books include "Khrushchev Lied", "The Moscow Trials as Evidence", Trotsky’s "Amalgams", "The Mystery of the Katyn Massacre: The Evidence, The Solution" and others. The name of Grover Furr is included in the list of the "101 most dangerous academics in America".
Showing posts with label Leon Trotsky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leon Trotsky. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
V.I. Lenin- The Defeat of One’s Own Government in the Imperialist War
Published in Sotsial-Demorkrat No. 43, July 26, 1915.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, [1974], Moscow, Volume 21, pages 275-280.
Republished from Marxists Internet Archives.
During a
reactionary war a revolutionary class cannot but desire the defeat of
its government.
This is
axiomatic, and disputed only by conscious partisans or helpless
satellites of the social-chauvinists. Among the former, for instance,
is Semkovsky of the Organising Committee (No. 2 of its Izvestia),
and among the latter, Trotsky and Bukvoyed,[2] and
Kautsky in Germany. To desire Russia’s defeat, Trotsky writes, is
“an uncalled-for and absolutely unjustifiable concession to the
political methodology of social-patriotism, which would replace the
revolutionary struggle against the war and the conditions causing it,
with an orientation—highly arbitrary in the present
conditions—towards the lesser evil” (Nashe
Slovo No.
105).
Saturday, January 6, 2018
J.V. Stalin - Trotskyism or Leninism? (1924)
Joseph V. Stalin- Trotskyism or Leninism?
Speech delivered at the Plenum of the Communist Group in the A.U.C.C.T.U.,
November 19, 1924;
Published on Pravda, No.269,
November 26, 1924.
Published via Marxists Internet Archives.
Comrades,
after Kamenev's comprehensive report there is little left for me to
say. I shall therefore confine myself to exposing certain legends
that are being spread by Trotsky and his supporters about the October
uprising, about Trotsky's role in the uprising, about the Party and
the preparation for October, and so forth. I shall also touch upon
Trotskyism as a peculiar ideology that is incompatible with Leninism,
and upon the Party's tasks in connection with Trotsky's latest
literary pronouncements.
Friday, January 27, 2017
Trotsky’s Lies - What They Are, and What They Mean
Trotsky’s Lies - What They Are, and What They Mean
By Grover Furr*.
The personality and the writings of Leon Trotsky have long been a rallying point for
anticommunists throughout the world. But during the 1930s Trotsky deliberately lied in
his writings about Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union. My new book, Trotsky’s
‘Amalgams’, discusses some of Trotsky’s lies that have fooled people, and demoralized
honest communists, for decades.
In January 1980 the Trotsky Archive at Harvard University was opened to researchers.
Within a few days Pierre Broué, the foremost Trotskyist historian of his time, discovered
that Trotsky had lied.
Trotsky had always denied that any clandestine “bloc of oppositionists” including
Trotskyists, existed in the Soviet Union. Trotsky called this an “amalgam,” meaning a
fabrication by Stalin. This “bloc” was the main focus of the second and third Moscow
Trials of January 1937 and March 1938. Broué showed, from letters in the Trotsky
Archive by Trotsky and by his son Leon Sedov, that the bloc did exist.
Saturday, July 2, 2016
Grover Furr- Evidence of Leon Trotsky’s Collaboration with Germany and Japan (Part II)
Grover Furr- Evidence of Leon Trotsky’s Collaboration with Germany and Japan (Part II). Continue from Part I.
Source: Cultural Logic, 2009.
Objectivity
And Persuasion.
Political
prejudice still predominates in the study of Soviet history.
Conclusions that contradict the dominant paradigm are routinely
dismissed as the result of bias or incompetence. Conclusions that
cast doubt upon accusations against Stalin or whose implications tend
to make him look either “good” or even less “evil” than the
predominant paradigm holds him to have been, are called “Stalinist.”
Any objective study of the evidence now available is bound to be
called “Stalinist” simply because it reaches conclusions that are
politically unacceptable to those who have a strong political bias,
be it anticommunist generally or Trotskyist specifically. The aim of
the present study is to examine the allegations made in the USSR
during the 1930s that Leon Trotsky collaborated with Germany and
Japan against the USSR in the light of the evidence now available.
Sunday, June 19, 2016
Grover Furr- Evidence of Leon Trotsky’s Collaboration with Germany and Japan (Part I)
Grover Furr- Evidence of Leon Trotsky’s Collaboration with Germany and Japan.
Source: Cultural Logic, 2009.
“If an objective
research project on the events of those years were to be done, free
of ideological dogmas, then a great deal could change in our attitude
towards those years and towards the personalities of that epoch. And
so it would be a “bomb” that would cause some problems. . . .”
Col. Viktor Alksnis,
2000.
“. . . it is essential
for historians to defend the foundation of their discipline: the
supremacy of evidence. If their texts are fictions, as in some sense
they are, being literary compositions, the raw material of these
fictions is verifiable fact. Whether the Nazi gas ovens existed or
not can be established by evidence. Because it has been so
established, those who deny their existence are not writing history,
whatever their narrative techniques.” – Eric Hobsbawm, 1994, p.
57.
“. . . we can demolish
a myth only insofar as it rests on propositions which can be shown to
be mistaken.” – ibid., p. 60.
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