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Old December 13th, 2007 #9
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From: The History of the Russian Revolution 1930 By Leon Trotsky

Chapter 1: Peculiarities of Russia’s Development

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Originally Posted by Leon Trotsky
Slavophilism, the messianism of backwardness, has based its philosophy upon the assumption that the Russian people and their church are democratic through and through, whereas official Russia is a German bureaucracy imposed upon them by Peter the Great. Mark remarked upon this theme: “In the same way the Teutonic jackasses blamed the despotism of Frederick the Second upon the French, as though backward slaves were not always in need of civilised slaves to train them.” This brief comment completely finishes off not only the old philosophy of the Slavophiles, but also the latest revelations of the “Racists.”
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trot...0/hrr/ch01.htm