[Dragaera] Aerich and Trotsky

[Jerry Friedman]

--- On Sun, 11/2/08, Maximilian Wilson <wilson.max at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Jerry Friedman
> <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I don't know whether Trotsky got some of his ideas
> from
> > Lenin or Marx or Engels, or even Hegel (except that he
> > quotes Marx approving the Paris Commune's
> > retaliatory execution of hostages).
> 
> I suspect the causative relationship is more complicated
> than that.
> Could Trotsky have been influenced by Aerich?
> 
> After all, we don't *know* that the Vladiad is in the
> distant future and not the past.

Shades of Wolfe!

If you can travel in time, the distinction between
future and past matters less.  Are you imagining
Devera shuttling back and forth, trading pages of
Trotsky for pages of Paarfi?

Jerry Friedman