Assassinating Trotsky again - Can that be done?

[sameera]

It has been reported in the Evening Standard that at the public launching of his new biography of Leon Trotsky at Daunt Books in London’s Holland Park, on October 22, Professor Robert Service declared: “There’s life in the old boy Trotsky yet—but if the ice pick didn’t quite do its job killing him off, I hope I’ve managed it.”

First review by David North

In The Service of Historical Falsification: A Review of Robert Service's Trotsky
http://wsws.org/articles/2009/nov2009/serv-n11.shtml

Further examination  by David North

Historians in the Service of the “Big Lie”: An Examination of Professor Robert Service’s Biography of Trotsky
http://wsws.org/articles/2009/dec2009/serv-d15.shtml

[Christopher Hill]

So it seems it is little more than some reactionary dimwit who decided to create his own "proof" against Marxism, The learned shall not be fooled.. but I fear for the ignorant.

[P.O.U.M]

If Robert Service mattered to any Leninist (of any variety), there would be none. His book might entertain a few who already hated communism and some Stalinists/Maoist's/Anarchists who might find a quote or two to use that's already been used and abused numerous times over. Really, Service's book with out a doubt has nothing that already has not been used against Trotsky.

[Christopher Hill]

If Robert Service mattered to any Leninist (of any variety), there would be none. His book might entertain a few who already hated communism and some Stalinists/Maoist's/Anarchists who might find a quote or two to use that's already been used and abused numerous times over. Really, Service's book with out a doubt has nothing that already has not been used against Trotsky.

And you can be sure they will portray him as some sort of power hungry tyrant or some pathetic fool, even though it is well known that he rejected many government positions, although we cannot deny the dire tactics he used in forming the Red Army.

[MalcolmX]

^^what dire tactics? bear with me, i'm not fully knowledgable regarding the details of the civil war era

[Christopher Hill]

Well the tactics were not so much dire as they were as disciplinarian as times required, the rules governing the red army under Trotsky were harsh and he held himself to blame for its bureaucratization.