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  • ButtBidet [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Honest to God, are like Trot groups funded by the CIA??

    • VeganVelveeta [she/her]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      A lot of western leftist groups have been captured by the CIA and are now funded by them. If an old org is posting cringe, they probably used to be a threat to Uncle Sam.

    • Gonzalothot [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Wouldn't be too surprised if the Cliffite Trots and third campists were.

      Movements and organizations Cliffite Trots (like the recently dissolved ISO) showed solidarity with (at least initially):

      • The “mujahideen” in Afghanistan against the socialist government and the Soviet Union
      • The “Velvet Revolution” in Czechoslovakia which brought neoliberal capitalism to power
      • The pro-Western “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine
      • The pro-Western “Rose Revolution” in Georgia
      • The 1991 overthrow of the USSR (trumpeting Boris Yeltsin)
      • The Kosovo Liberation Army (a fascist force)
      • The middle-class and pro-Western Green movement in Iran
      • The Libyan rebels that championed NATO intervention
      • The Free Syrian Army that champions NATO intervention

      Movements and organizations Cliffite Trots refused to support, and attacked instead as “Stalinist”:

      • The Cuban Revolution and the Communist Party of Cuba
      • The United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution
      • The Chinese Revolution and the Communist Party of China including during the Mao era
      • North Korea, even during the Korean War
      • The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola
      • The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

      Many orthodox Trots (particularly the ones in Latin America) tend to be generally anti-imperialist though.