I have been reading my copy of Prof. Furr’s latest book – and it is a fascinating read. It is more than a mere counter-history or listing of opposite-facts. Indeed, what Rakovky’s did is shocking as it demonstrates just how deep the Trotsky-led conspiracy ran – and what Trotsky and his cohorts were willing to do to undermine Marxist-Leninist (Stalinism) – and replace it with a right-leaning capitalist State (that would make, like Hitler, certain left-leaning concessions to the workers – providing they conform [as a class] to the fascist organisation of society). Now, to be clear, I was investigating the misrepresenting of Soviet history by the US (and its allies) for some years, primarily through the work of left-leaning bourgeois historians (particularly Alexander Werth and EH Carr and others). Until a few years ago, I was completely unaware of the work of Prof, Grover Furr – and had never come across his work. This might be because much of my academic work stems from the study of the ancient and modern Chinese language – with a sympathy toward (Mainland) Socialist China. Chinese scholars have been publishing papers since the 1950s regarding how the capitalist West “lies” – but of course – the Sino-Soviet Split (1956-1991) often got in the way of objectivity. China under Mao Zedong supported Stalin and opposed the Khrushchev betrayal of Stalin and set itself in opposition to the revisionist USSR (in return, the Soviets painted China as “Trotskyite” and so the madness went on). During the 1960s, the PLA and Soviet Red Army routinely clashed in the border areas – with Chinese troops turning-up to fight carrying pictures of Lenin and Stalin. China’s post-1979 turned toward economic determinism further strained its relationship with the USSR – as did the Vietnamese invasion of “Kampuchea” (between 1979-1989) – formulating (with the collusion of the USSR and US) the myth of the “Killing Fields” – as a means to prevent the spread of Chinese Communism outside of the geographical boundaries of China (as the British did in Malaya post-1945). I mention all this as the Trotskyites are past-masters of the “lie” and know how to sow “derision” between (and within) the working-class – thus rendering it weak, contradictory, and unable to effectively to unite resist the continuous pressure imposed by the capitalist system. All we can do as individuals is operate from where we find ourselves in the general unfolding of history.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 