BOOK: "Our Revolution: Essays on Working-Class & International Revolution, 1904-1917" By Leon Trotsky

We expect modern right-leaning, Tea Party types to lump Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin together in the same totalitarian lodka. But we don't expect, or shouldn't expect, self-professed leftist/progressive types to do the same, right? Alas, too often their ignorance of (or failure to set the record straight about) the actual thoughts, motivations, actions, and differences among these men–to say nothing of the Russian people–is much more harmful than the standard Red-bashing recipe followed by the right-wing.

So let's know what we're talking about...

and not be afraid to say it!

AUDIO: "The Founding of the Fourth International" by Rob Sewell