{"id":9439,"date":"2012-08-20T11:25:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T11:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/20\/the-last-words-of-leon-trotsky\/"},"modified":"2012-08-20T11:25:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T11:25:52","slug":"the-last-words-of-leon-trotsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/20\/the-last-words-of-leon-trotsky\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Words of Leon Trotsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">On this date in 1940 in Mexico City Ramon Mercader <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/NCThqw_Jmek\" target=\"_self\">drove an ice axe<\/a> (not an ice pick as some accounts have it) into the skull of Leon Trotsky.&#0160; He died the next day.&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/biography\/Trotsky.html\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a> we read:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Mercader later testified at his trial: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><em>I laid my raincoat on the table&#0160; in such a way as to be able to remove the ice axe which was in the pocket. I&#0160; decided not to miss the wonderful opportunity that presented itself. The moment&#0160; Trotsky began reading the article, he gave me my chance; I took out the ice axe&#0160; from the raincoat, gripped it in my hand and, with my eyes closed, dealt him a&#0160; terrible blow on the head.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">According to Joseph Cannon, the secretary of the Socialist Workers Party&#0160; (USA), Trotsky&#39;s last words were &quot;I will not survive this attack. Stalin&#0160; has finally accomplished the task he attempted unsuccessfully before.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Trotsky, who didn&#39;t shrink from murder and brutality in pursuit of his utopian <em>fata morgana,<\/em> met his end brutally. Live by the sword, die by the sword.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this date in 1940 in Mexico City Ramon Mercader drove an ice axe (not an ice pick as some accounts have it) into the skull of Leon Trotsky.&#0160; He died the next day.&#0160; Here we read: Mercader later testified at his trial: I laid my raincoat on the table&#0160; in such a way as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/20\/the-last-words-of-leon-trotsky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Last Words of Leon Trotsky&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}