Smearing the Russian revolution and Lenin's original Bolshevik party is nothing less than a profitable academic profession. The latest biographies of Lenin and Trotsky - worthy of J. Edgar Hoover's " Masters of Deceit " - have been reviewed from a socialist worker point of view on the World Socialist Web Site.
Working class socialists do not look for a New York Times imprimatur in their educational classics .
Do you think the intellectual representatives of the American ruling class would ever agree on Marx's historical materialism : that their economic system contains the seeds of its own destruction , that it is as doomed as ancient slavery , oriental despotism, and feudalism ?
They can not justify their economic system before the common people without themselves being " Masters of Deceit ".
Mar 12, 2014 - BOOK REVIEW: In Defense of Leon Trotsky by David North (Mehring ... were “mendacious and malicious exercises in character assassination, ... that he had wanted to assassinate Trotsky a second time with his hateful book ]
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