Word: trotskyism
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...must be said that since the time of Trotskyism no other opportunist trend has ever resorted to such a monstrous method, which completely distorts truth. It hides its capitulatory essence behind "ultrarevolutionary" slogans, playing on the feelings of the masses. It would be extremely harmful to try to fit revolutionary processes in this extremely varied world into ready molds, as the dogmatists are trying to do. Far from advancing the cause of world revolution, they are throttling...
...Jewish family, Ehrenburg was a poet of the long-haired kind before the revolution. During the civil war, he swung in behind Denikin's White Guards and strongly attacked Communism in an early poem. Then, when it appeared that the Bolsheviks were there to stay, he flirted with Trotskyism, dropped it for Bukharinism, and finally in Paris, where in bohemian Montparnasse he kept a step ahead of the consequences of his earlier misjudgments, he became Stalin's advocate...
...comments on Gnosticism and ancient-world Catholicism by TIME and Dr. Voegelin are unnecessarily pedantic. Gnosticism and Catholicism were to ancient Christianity what Trotskyism and Stalinism are to today's Marxism. And just as orthodox Catholicism defeated Gnosticism in the ancient ideological battle, so did Stalinism defeat Trotskyism in the modern one; while the result in both instances was that the victorious doctrine became orthodox, its leaders and followers in political control of their areas, while the ousted ideology became heretic (or "deviationist," to use the mildest Kremlin term), its leaders and followers subject to official persecution, banishment, execution...
Slansky & Co. pleaded guilty to a standard list of crimes: high treason, conspiracy with non-Communist agents and spies, murder, espionage, sabotage, Titoism, Trotskyism. They also accused themselves of something new in Red purge trials: "Zionism," "Jewish bourgeois nationalism," "Jewish chauvinism." Slansky and ten others among the defendants are Jews...
...jeep jockeys suffer under a peculiar social stigma almost as bad as Trotskyism: they drive captured U.S. jeeps. When the drivers of the Russian jeeps boast that theirs are the best, the other two carefully but dolefully keep their mouths shut...