Trotsky and the abolition of secret diplomacy

[Ernst Debets]

REPLY TO: D66 at nic.surfnet.nl

Hoe het ook zij, het is wel vermakelijk om op WikiLeaks te lezen (en
bevestigd te krijgen) wat ieder weldenkend mens altijd al gedacht heeft:

De Yankee regering zijn een stelletje boeven, ongeacht wie er voor president
speelt.
Sarkozy is een arrogant opgewonden standje (Zoals alle Parijzenaars)
Berlusconi is een domme ijdeltuit
Batman Poeten & Hulpje Medvedev zijn even grote boeven als de US regering
waarop ze nogal trachten af te geven
Frau Merkel is alleen maar een saaie tut-hola uit de ex-DDR.

Ik ben benieuwd wat ze in de post tussen Den Haag en Washington voor open
deuren over Rutte, Wilders en Verhagen intrappen.
Het laat zich raden.......

Ernst Debets/
Zaanstad


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Van: owner-d66 at nic.surfnet.nl [mailto:owner-d66 at nic.surfnet.nl] Namens Henk
Elegeert
Verzonden: maandag 29 november 2010 18:00
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Onderwerp: Re: Trotsky and the abolition of secret diplomacy

REPLY TO: D66 at nic.surfnet.nl

Oto,

Trek je wel weer aan de bel als zou blijken dat Wikileaks ergens onder de
stoffige en vergeelde stapels pamfletten Trotsky's oude/of
'secret' tandenborstel vinden? :)) Just for a historical entertaining moment
... ;)

Henk Elegeert

2010/11/29 Antid Oto <aorta at home.nl>

> REPLY TO: D66 at nic.surfnet.nl
>
> Mass release of secret diplomatic documents by Wikileaks - a historical
> precedent
>
>
> Wikileaks is due to release hundreds of thousands of secret US diplomatic
> cables
> in the next few hours.  Allow me to make a tenuous, but entertaining
> comparison.
>  There is a historical precedent for the mass release of secret documents
> relating to diplomacy between nations. It happened in 1917, shortly after
> the
> Bolshevik Revolution, when a man named Leon Trotsky became the People's
> Commissar for Foreign Affairs and proceeded to publish all secret treaties
> between the Triple Entente powers of the UK, France, Russia. These
treaties
> detailed, among other things, how colonies and state boundaries would be
> redrawn
> after the First World War, and revealed a discrepancy between what nations
> told
> their citizens, and the agreements they made with other powers.
>
> The US government continues justify the steady erosion of civil liberties
> by
> telling its citizens that if they have done nothing wrong, then they have
> nothing to hide.  By this logic, the US government should only be worried
> if
> they have done something wrong, which, if the dispatch of groveling
> ambassadors
> to their host country's leaders around the world is anything to go by,
they
> certainly have.
>
> Makes for an interesting read.
>
> STATEMENT BY TROTSKY ON THE PUBLICATION OF THE SECRET TREATIES
>
> 2 November 1917
>
> Trotsky, iii, 2, p.64
>
>    In publishing the secret diplomatic documents from the foreign policy
> archives of Tsarism and of the bourgeois coalition Governments of the
first
> seven months of the revolution, we are carrying out the undertaking which
> we
> made when our party was in opposition. Secret diplomacy is a necessary
tool
> for
> a propertied minority which is compelled to deceive the majority in order
> to
> subject it to its interests. Imperialism, with its dark plans of conquest
> and
> its robber alliances and deals, developed the system of secret diplomacy
to
> the
> highest level. The struggle against the imperialism which is exhausting
and
> destroying the peoples of Europe is at the same time a struggle against
> capitalist diplomacy, which has cause enough to fear the light of day. The
> Russian people, and the peoples of Europe and the whole world, should
learn
> the
> documentary truth about the plans forged in secret by the financiers and
> industrialists together with their parliamentary and diplomatic agents.
The
> peoples of Europe have paid for the right to this truth with countless
> sacrifices and universal economic desolation.
>
> The abolition of secret diplomacy is the primary condition for an honest,
> popular, truly democratic foreign policy. The Soviet Government regards it
> as
> its duty to carry out such a policy in practice. That is precisely why,
> while
> openly proposing an immediate armistice to all the belligerent peoples and
> their
> Governments, we are at the same time publishing these treaties and
> agreements,
> which have lost all binding force for the Russian workers, soldiers, and
> peasants who have taken power into their own hands.
>
> The bourgeois politicians and journalists of Germany and Austria-Hungary
> may try
> to make use of the documents published in order to present the diplomacy
of
> the
> Central Empires in a more advantageous light. But any such attempt would
be
> doomed to pitiful failure, and that for two reasons. In the first place,
we
> intend quickly to place before the tribunal of public opinion secret
> documents
> which treat sufficiently clearly of the diplomacy of the Central Empires.
> Secondly, and more important, the methods of secret diplomacy are as
> universal
> as imperialist robbery. When the German proletariat enters the
> revolutionary
> path leading to the secrets of their chancelleries, they will extract
> documents
> no whit inferior to those which we are about to publish. It only remains
to
> hope
> that this will take place quickly.
>
> The workers' and peasants' Government abolishes secret diplomacy and its
> intrigues, codes, and lies. We have nothing to hide. Our programme,
> expresses
> the ardent wishes of millions of workers, soldiers, and peasants. We want
> the
> rule of capital to be overthrown as possible. In exposing to the entire
> world
> the work of the ruling classes, as expressed in the secret diplomatic
> documents,
> we address the workers with the call which forms the unchangeable
> foundation of
> our foreign policy: 'Proletarians of all countries, unite.'
>
>
>
http://waterinmajorca.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/mass-release-of-secret-diplom
atic-documents-a-historical-precedent/
>
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