9k:RD/ fervent perfidious enemies (Q42,84)
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/ 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]- ... fervent perfidious enemies ->
oh god Trotsky's most ironic quote. fervent perfidious enemies..... I don't know how to tell you this.... fervent perfidious enemies
-> the motif of anarchists, 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.
this does not cover all hypocritical statements anyone has ever made. it must be correlated with a physical failure or dissolution of a Socialist organization and an unawareness of what will lead to that failure.
case of: logical contradiction / oxymoron; type of philosophical tendency- fervent perfidious enemies -> number "84" in reference to "doublespeak" (1984).
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- Every incorrect progressive theory produces irony / (9k)
- Marxist errors invite capitalism
- Revolutionaries do not include Tony Cliff / (9k)
Traditions, fields, or works
- / Trotskyism
- / The New International
- / Hue and Cry Over Kronstadt (Trotsky 1938)
- / ironic philosophies
- Tony Cliff
- / anarchism (1900-1953)