At 10:01 AM 2/26/2003 +0000, - Holly - wrote: > >(Hypothetically posed note to the author if he reads this or reads this >far into this: So Mr. Brust, how am I doing in my analysis, right or wrong >is it at least well thought out?) Uh...I'd say more wrong than right, but interesting nevertheless. And yes, well thought out. Besides, what do *I* know? > >[4] My understanding also is that Trotsky said something to the effect of >"we're/they're not ready yet" though later changed his mind being >convinced by Lenin and the Bolsheviks, though I am not sure on this and >not clear if it means what I think it means. It is possible I have this >completely wrong. Uh, closer to the other way around. By April of 1917 Lenin had come around to Trotsky's view that a bourgious revolution would be forced, in the twentieth century to continue to a proletarian revolution. Trotsky had come around to Lenin's idea on the role and nature of a revolutionary party.