We all know the Hearst press was a key factorbin anticommunist propaganda thatbis parroted even today (particularly the creation of the so called Holodomor and if anybof you have read Fraud Famine and Fascism by Douglas Tottle the methods to create this: faked photos from the 1921 Russian famine and 1905 austrian famine)
We know he was a nazi that gave Goering and Mussolini a column in his press which dominated the 1920s and 1930s
In the 1930s the Hearst press began to champion Trotsky as a “true bolshevik”
I am wondering if anyone has the 1st hand articles regarding this as they will be useful in combatting Trotskyism
I did some research into it several years ago, mainly how much money they gave him. Volkogonov says this:
“He received $10,000 for his first articles for the Daily Express, New York Herald Tribune, New York Times, and other newspapers. Soon he would receive an advance of $7,000 from an American publisher for his autobiography, and for a series of articles entitled ‘The History of the Russian Revolution’ the Saturday Evening Post paid him $45,000.”
This is in money from the 1920s and 30s, of course, so $62,000 in 1935 is about $1,170,000 in 2020. This was more than enough to finance his network of collaborators from his gigantic castle fortress in Mexico (which he didn’t even pay for, it was given to him by wealthy friends). Not to mention the USSR actually gave him something like $10,000 when they forced him to leave the country, but I can’t seem to tract down the exact figure at the moment.
You’ll soon discover Trots don’t care about this kind of stuff. Maybe young people will listen, but Trotskyism serves an ideological function in the labor movement of the English-speaking world, namely, as the ideology of the rearguard for the imperialist labor bureaucracy. There are a few Trotskyite cults that aren’t so bad (the Northites), but they’re only not bad because they actually took their Marxism seriously enough to try to spread it in the trade unions and ran into the machinations of the labor lieutenants of capitalism.
Hey comrade do you have the sources for the payments he received?
The quote above is from Volkogonov’s Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary, page 323. The footnote reads Carmichael, J., Trotsky, Jerusalem, 1980, p. 237. This seems to be the Israeli version of the book Trotsky: An Appreciation of His Life, which I can not find online, though you can get snippets from Google books of it. I can’t find Carmichael’s footnote, though I would guess it probably comes from the Trotsky archives at the Hoover Institution.
