BARBARA BROWN knows as mountain of evidence to show then Waraine Brezhnev of Current Evers the -bramidle of in the Ukrgine, tinge of Leonid Plyushah, The humour Barbara sode that the unconsciously ement was strictly limited Truthed what she mans to aly hemism for "brutally significant. This betrays a complete misunderstanding of poliare very little, in the East 1 leans ari treat Ukrainian To bigger thar the strictly limited' to Barbara; the bursaucracy is not so naive ticker when at umber of systematic national oppression in the Ukraine question a 'new She should be frank and say implication is clear enough: after the overthrow of the bourgeolale the national withers 'gradually This ense. The overthrow of the 198088208812I SULTAI nations any more than 1l autor natically solves the appression women, racial minorities, gay people or religious persecution. Anyone who argues that such problems aitain a "new signifiIn the context of a orkera' state - even a deform ed peddling a very dangerous piece of the wishfut woid. And when such ideas are applied to the reality of Sovie story they tum from wishful thinking into wriful shrinking from mountain ranges of evi CANCE Barbera engages in blatant apologetics when she does try to take up one piece of the histori cal evidence in economic pillage in Tha Ukraine.
She states as fact that much o this economic surplus is noustry in the backward centra What is ture a the bureaucracy nie ture of the bureaucracy trial development are not in the CHIT AND THOUGHTS STI They are in the Russian Federa tion. Furtharmone tion of the rouble the slightest alter the is surplus is extracted in Ukraine b Russian-dominated cracy, that is what we mean by "economic pillage'.
Finally Barbare uses B favourlists for the Sovint bumaucra Toning body he ukrainlan people want, s0 WE CONSU that they teel nationally oppres sed. This is utter philistinism an attampt to throw out of the ment. Who KnEW Basques or Catalans might want as when what he undera when they Silent? 1860 her the might want in the Who knew what the Czechs and Slovaks might want in the earl 180 No they who, historical analysis and historical balan masses may today when they are silent? Or. to put it another way: what is Marcism for?
OLIVER MACDONALD [London] BRIGHTON Sociallet group messing setirey Sheriten or a detais of activities in the N a the destina това пос вп HOT THI in order IN LAST week's issue, Rewiew of Books, Paul Bellia referred to me as a veir sociar democrer While 1am giad that the voil Roberts amas describer by and not right make it cinar that i do not accept traditionally incomparible with For exsmole I believe that the State is not neutrai, that Parlia to change society in a fundato accomplish revolu LEOTAP CIT communist strategy as a pack views in Anderson's 1966 essay - Towards Socialism, which Pery easer nas ator doscribed Where i may altier with some threshing of Parament on no WICH CHINKEE CAMOCTAC and l assert that a precondition socialist and change in the majority in These Parliamentary Democracy interting weir of pite despite the Astra zas], it gets artacked fram the left sa social democratic an from the right as Trotskyist suggest Socialist Challenge LENA SLOWNHILE PUTTA TEA of the Labour Party to sort col terminalogy. . Meanwhile, congratulations on GEOFF HODGSON (Manchester).
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