every iteration of the struggle that builds on past theory to keep a socialist project alive is such an incredible gift. exactly as you said it - i don't see how Trots can stay Trots when theyre actually being intellectually rigorous and not doing some anti-Soviet hero worship revisionist type thing
I don’t think Trotsky was all bad, just that he became bad when he turned against the USSR. I will also critically support Trots if they ever actually manage to do anything other than sell newspapers.
To their credit though I think the WSWS is valuable on its own. There's not a lot of left wing news out there available in the West and WSWS can be a decent entry point into a greater leftist environment, as well as providing valuable labor news in its own right.
From my own reading Trotsky seems to make more sense psychologically than revolutionarily. He goes through this revolution with Lenin and Stalin and others and then loses power to Stalin after Lenin's death and worries that Stalin will destroy what they worked so hard to build. While we know him to be wrong enough that Stalin guides the USSR successfully in its fight against Nazism and then it outlasts him by another 40 years, I can't imagine how big a blow that would be to the ego in the moment without the benefit of that hindsight.
every iteration of the struggle that builds on past theory to keep a socialist project alive is such an incredible gift. exactly as you said it - i don't see how Trots can stay Trots when theyre actually being intellectually rigorous and not doing some anti-Soviet hero worship revisionist type thing
I don’t think Trotsky was all bad, just that he became bad when he turned against the USSR. I will also critically support Trots if they ever actually manage to do anything other than sell newspapers.
To their credit though I think the WSWS is valuable on its own. There's not a lot of left wing news out there available in the West and WSWS can be a decent entry point into a greater leftist environment, as well as providing valuable labor news in its own right.
From my own reading Trotsky seems to make more sense psychologically than revolutionarily. He goes through this revolution with Lenin and Stalin and others and then loses power to Stalin after Lenin's death and worries that Stalin will destroy what they worked so hard to build. While we know him to be wrong enough that Stalin guides the USSR successfully in its fight against Nazism and then it outlasts him by another 40 years, I can't imagine how big a blow that would be to the ego in the moment without the benefit of that hindsight.
pretty much. yeah would never say he was ALL bad but can say historically he's not really a man worth building an ideology off of