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: Wet _ TRE f Be Pate zt . -_ an oe “4 . _ ? . & ve a . . wie ec Mogg Le a a ONE - ae - The: rgots of the split between Prot sky. and Stalin lie . _ in the mMdebate oP the late 1920's around the issue of “socialism — a Sin. ore opin s . Stalin's view was that Russia shoud begin - wto. deyexop. a socialist economy, whereas. Trotsky ‘saw this as “ge "a: ‘hopelegetask. . Trotsky believed that?-socdalism could. only + COME. to baie USSR after there were. proletartan* revolutions in... _ : Leiins. urope. At the time both’ believas’ “that. the: Russian... 2% aK ‘Ketariat-hed four main alliws:. a): Rugsian: ‘peasants b) Westerns. ne urg¢pean vroletariat c? the oppressed,” “colonized nations” ..- °°. fa)’ ‘eonflicts among the capitalist’ powers, Stalin focussed. his | ~gbtentson on developing an alliance with peasantry and forging’ 9. "socialism in one ccuntry". Trotsky!s theory was that of the ..-° “nermanent revolution" where there ‘gould be no sieht ‘socialist - country {n the world until the entdre - world was socialist... In contemporery practice this philosophy of Trotskyism ° has led to a dogmatic, purist form of politicgh sretwede. lot a fails to differentiate the uneven development of the capitalist . Se countries, This leads to a denial of the validity of national liberation struggles which invlolve any bourgeois elements. For.” . instance, when the Left throuchout the world was viewing the t= Signing of the Viet Nam Peace agreement as a vicbory for the Vietnamese veople, Trotskyists were maintaining that it repre- sented a sellout of the interests of the people of South Viet Nam.. Trotskyists only see the struggle of the proletariat against the bourgeois elements in the country but deny the ~- , < struggles against jupertalism and feudalism in the underdeveloped countries, Zhrsx « Therefore, they totally deny the . existence of a democnatic stage of the revotution. This is why they support Cuba but not China or any other contemporary- socialist . nation. In Cuba there was no democratic phase of the revolution but an almost immediate plunge into socialist construction, Also . . there was no long’ period of building up united fronts with bourgeio: 7 elements, Rather, the guerrillas just sort of took the country .. by storm because the conditions were so rine for revolution and the U.S, was fonled by Fidel's strategy for awhile end supported ‘ him over Batista AKXKKSX Anarchism “" Anarchists basic difference with Commnists is that they do not see the need for an intermediate stage of socialism based dna centralized, centrally planned economy before there can be a purely c-mmunistic state where the’ withering away of the oper’ can cecur, Anarchists see their a Perl y struggle as a revolt .against all forms of authority. ‘hus, they often see the authority of a socialist state as being as sinister as the authority of the capitalist state, Anarchists, however, do tend to be people _ - of action, Since they place such a high priority on the resistance by many anarchists. Since, they do take a position against all governemtn authority (the best government is no government is a favorite anarchist phrase) they usually refuse any kind of alilance with any sort of bourgeilos elements, hey believe power comes out of masz consciousness and that any sort of vanguard organisetior simple contains the seeds of state authoritarianism, to authority, any individual acts of terrorism are seen as progressiv