I read this guy and he’s like “none of you are doing enough communism”
And everyone else is like “shut up trotsky”
Im a trotskyist now
I read this guy and he’s like “none of you are doing enough communism”
And everyone else is like “shut up trotsky”
Im a trotskyist now
No. The last hundred years have proven him correct again and again. But this Stalinist website won’t like that conversation.
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Ngl, given that no Trotskyist movement has ever made Revolution, I have far more respect for Anarchists, as an ML, than I do for trots.
Anarchists have had to contend with the practical and theoretical challenges of governing. Trots have… Splits…Newspapers… That UFO cult
What was he right about?
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Its hard to argue against that because the socialist movement globally petered out and capitalism suffocated any remaining countries into joining the market one way or another. So the idea that you need to eradicate capitalism fully worldwide for it to work and survive was infact correct. Or at least the opposite hasn’t been proven to work either.
I find his writing to actually be quite good. At least good enough to not warrant discarding as a joke
Trotsky’s interpretation of that was that the USSR should’ve retained war communism, and made war on europe when it was at its weakest after the civil war. Nearly everyone in the USSR’s leadership correctly opposed that, and thought that economic construction was their primary task.