Hilarious Trot claims
Feb 9 2006 12:36
I was just glancing over a copy of a Peoples History of the World by Chris Harman for fun, and Christ it's hilarious!
The best claim so far has to be the denial that Germany invaded Belgium in 1914 - they were in fact conducting 'troop movements'.
Another favorite of mine is the claim in 'A Civil War Without Guns' (SP's book on the Miners Strike), where they claim that Mili were solely responsible for picketing out the Midlands Miners.
What other excellent examples of Trots totally rewritting history (not talking about disagreement, or squabbles over when the Russian Civil War was, but actual real falsifications of history) does everyone know?
http://www.workers.org/marcy/1990/sm900125.html - Compares chinese victory over 1989 counterrevolution, as compared to the counterrevolutionary victory over the socialist romanian government. Also mentions Hungary and Poland which had begun to have bourgeois, anti-socialist reforms as early as 1956.
http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/samsupp/suppress/suppr07.htm - "Their position clearly reflected the view that the Czechoslovak developments were reactionary and were leading to bourgeois counter-revolution similar to what had taken place in Hungary in 1956, and that the Soviet bureaucracy was either too cowardly or too helpless to do anything about it."
I seem to remember the US group solidarity thinking that the USSR was in Afghanistan to help a popular socialist government defend itself from muslim reaction. Or maybe it was ISO...