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What Bronstein had to say about Miliukov can also well be said about Jeremy Corbyn

To deal with the first of these many ironies: Bronstein would go on to take another name, Leon Trotsky, and a different career trajectory, as a Bolshevik revolutionary. It was the Bolsheviks’ surprise victory in the October Revolution of 1917 that placed Trotsky in the command of the Soviet Red Army, only to be purged and exiled and eventually liquidated, by means of an ice pick to the back of the head, by a Stalinist assassin in Mexico City on Aug. 21, 1940. It just so happens that it was from out of the leadership of Britain’s Stop the War Coalition, with its distinctively degenerate fusion of Trotskyism and unreconstructed Stalinism, that Corbyn was propelled from his post as the coalition’s chairman directly into the office of the leader of the British Labour Party in September 2015.

You would be hard pressed to discover anything Corbyn has ever said or done that contradicts or contends against the lie that Syrian mass murderer Bashar Assad and his Western apologists have so successfully circulated and sustained all these years, to the effect that the struggle in Syria always came down a choice between Assad and al-Qaida, or some similarly jihadist version thereof. Corbyn has been reliably depended upon to claim that arming the pro-democracy Syrian rebels would be to repeat the error of arming the Afghan mujahedeen against the Soviets in the 1980s, if “error” that genuinely was. It has also been Corbyn’s custom to find cause for a bit of praise for Moammar Gadhafi here, an encomium to Venezuelan caudillo Hugo Chavez there, a casual reference to his “friends” in Hamas and Hezbollah, and so on.