9k:RD/ Democracy requires progress (Q42,84)

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4292. Q4292/Q42,92

      What is analyzed is accounted for

      / To take documents "into consideration" does not mean to take them at their face value. Marx has said that it is impossible to judge either parties or peoples by what they say about themselves. [...] If, for example, we began to take as pure gold the innumerable proclamations of [... Kronstadt] we would have to recognize these gentlemen as fervent friends of socialism. But in reality they are its perfidious enemies (Trotsky 1938) [1] -> oh god Trotsky's most ironic quote. fervent perfidious enemies..... I don't know how to tell you this....
4284. Q4284/Q42,84fervent perfidious enemies -> the motif of revisionist Marxists or strawberry, orange, etc incorrect Marxist theorists saying something terribly ironic that easily reads as a criticism of them but that they haven't reflexively applied to their own theories or practice.