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Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
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Chapter 24
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Chapter 32
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Chapter 44
Chapter 45
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Chapter 48
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Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
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Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
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Chapter 75
Chapter 76
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Chapter 78
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Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
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TAZARA ... a journey by rail through world-history © KJS / 2009
44 Trotsky in exile, delivering a speech in Copenhagen in 1932
CHAPTER 17  



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We are back on well-known tracks, and we find it fitting, comrade Trotsky, to introduce the finding of a 20th-century-historian.
Oskar Spengler wrote in his voluminous work „The Demise of the Occident” …

LET ROLL THE TEXT, PLEASE:


There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money — and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

When you, comrade Trotsky, left on 27th March 1917 New York together with two hundred and seventy-five revolutionaries on board the S.S. Kristianiafjord the ship’s first call was Halifax in Nova Scotia. Canadian authorities arrested you … we heard you narrating it …
During public speeches in North America you had announced quite often, in case of successful assumption of power in Russia, you would immediately put a stop to the imperialistic war, negotiating a separate peace-treaty with Germany.
That could hardly be in the interest of the Canadians because German troops, not anymore needed in the East, would be moved to the Western frontline. But there, Canadian soldiers were engaged.
It is unclear how long you were arrested in Halifax, information provided, your’s included, say between five days and one month. But according to our own research, after only five days two high-ranking representatives of two different nations approached the Canadian government to have you released: on behalf of Britain it was Sir William Wiseman and on behalf of America it was no-one less than Colonel House, right hand-man of the American president — we shall here more about him on another leg of this voyage. Equipped with an American passport you continued your journey to meet Lenin in Russia.
We deduct: you did not return to Russia because of the call of the oppressed masses, but powerful men of Europe and of the United States of America helped you to grab power …
… Leather-jackets for everyone on board your war-train, mobile bathing facilities, library, telephone and radio-transmitters …
A revolution can only be successful through organisation and financing; oppressed masses have usually not on hand the one nor the other one …


„Ha, is someone here believing a couple of the most wealthy and most powerful men in the world would have financed a movement whose declared goal it was to rob the wealth from them?”

Who is asking that — Trotsky or Rockefeller? It does not matter! To us it seems logical that a handful of such men did, indeed, not fear the international communism — and even financed it because … they controlled it!
But, comrade Trotsky, wait … originally we wanted to know what Mr. Rockefeller meant when he mentioned the „Fourth International Movement”!


„I founded it, in 1938! My Russian citizenship had been declared null and void in 1934; it was the time when the Russian intelligence service started to hunt for me.
After Lenin had died, Stalin began to carry through violently the so-called home-based socialism within the whole country. Now, my goal was different; I wanted that we support a victory of international labour-movements first, do you understand?
The thesis was basically, that the revolution in backward societies had to go through phases which would establish, without interruption, first a democratic middle-class followed by a proletarian class. I argued that in order to build successfully socialism the revolution had to be victorious first in progressive countries followed by political, cultural and economic revolutions of labour-movements in less developed countries.”

An ice-axe finished off your revolutionary — ? — well, your earthly life, a murderous tool guided by the hand of a disciple — as you believed it. But it was an agent of Stalin who came after you on 20th August 1940 in your Mexican exile. After twenty years of imprisonment your assassin returned home to a heroes welcome; in Moscow he received the Lenin-order.
In 2005, the ice-axe which had gone missing, was found again. It had been displayed in the museum of criminology in Mexico-City where it was replaced by a duplicate for fear someone would steal it. A Mexican intelligence-man, co-founder of the museum, had kept the original. The leftwing daily La Jornada reported, his daughter tried to return it when her father had died, but in vain. Finally, she told the story a radio-reporter …


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2 To wait where they shall take me
naked, at the target spot
nailed down by first arrows.

Once more, the bowstring strained
Whizzing of arrows.
Is it over?
Did they play?
Did the hand tremble?
Or, was it the wind?

What do I fear?
once they hit
and kill.
What will be left to deplore?

Others preceded.
Others will follow.


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Dag, you dedicate this poem to a communist?

„I accept the dedication, I — Lew Dawidowitsch Bronstein, called Trotsky, thanking, at the same time, my heirs! …
And as you rightly guessed, up there we not only know WHAT IS MOVING THE WORLD, but also WHO IS MOVING THE WORLD.
In the 21st century, the Fourth International Movement expects that progress of society can only be achieved by an alliance of working people in all countries. Their demand for social equality is directed against the division of mankind in a tiny wealthy minority and a growing majority of paupers.”

„I‘m getting out!”

„But, Mr. Rockefeller — that would not be fair! ... ”

Continue, Kofi, Africa is waiting far too long to get a clarifying word from you!

„... We still need you!”

Well, did we really wait for a clarifying word from this UN-quota-African? … Or from his successor, this UN-quota-Asian?


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