{"id":104,"date":"2005-03-01T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T12:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2005-03-01T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T12:54:07","slug":"menshevism-in-iraq-response-to-sacha-ismail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/menshevism-in-iraq-response-to-sacha-ismail\/","title":{"rendered":"Menshevism in Iraq &#8211; Response to Sacha Ismail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.workersliberty.org\/node\/view\/3746\">Sacha Ismail&#8217;s response <\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.me.uk\/archive\/000107.html\">my article on Menshevism<\/a> confirms my belief that even in the very best Trotskyist organizations, members remain ill-informed about the very foundations of their politics.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s a harsh thing to say, but there are several passages of Sacha&#8217;s polemic that reveal a rather slight grasp of historical facts.  For example, Sacha claims that the Bolsheviks were right to base their hopes on a world revolution breaking out which would rescue them from their isolation. &#8220;There were revolutions across Europe in 1917<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacha Ismail&#8217;s response to my article on Menshevism confirms my belief that even in the very best Trotskyist organizations, members remain ill-informed about the very foundations of their politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solidarity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}