(Lev Davidovich Bronstein, called Leon Trotsky or Trotsky; Yanovka, Ukraine, 1877 - Coyoacán, Mexico, 1940) Russian revolutionary. He was born into a Jewish family of tenant farmers and studied law at the University of Odessa. He participated from a young age in the clandestine opposition against the autocratic regime of the Tsars, organizing a Workers' League of the South of Russia (1897).
He was arrested several times and exiled to Siberia; but he managed to flee from there in 1902 and joined in London the one who already appeared as head of the Social Democratic opposition in exile: Lenin. Although he disagreed with his ideological conception of the party, he collaborated with him and tried in vain to reconcile the faction he led (the Bolsheviks) with the rival faction of the Russian Social Democracy (the Mensheviks).
He returned to Russia to participate in the 1905 Revolution (in which he organized the first Soviet or revolutionary council). When the revolution failed, he was deported again to Siberia and again escaped (1906). After traveling half the world coming into contact with the centers of revolutionary conspirators, he moved to Russia as soon as the February 1917 Revolution broke out, which overthrew Nicholas II.
Abandoning his previous career as an independent socialist (in relation to the Mensheviks), he put his talents as an organizer and agitator at the service of the Bolshevik Party and was elected president of the Petrograd Soviet. He played a central role in the victory of the bolsheviks: he was the main responsible for the taking of the Winter Palace by the Bolsheviks, which established the communist regime in Russia (October Revolution of 1917).
Although Lenin held the top of power, Trotsky played a crucial role in the Soviet government until its death. As the first Foreign Commissioner of Bolshevik Russia (1917-18), he negotiated with the Germans the Peace of Brest-Litovsk, which withdrew the country from the First World War to respond to the wishes of peace of the masses and concentrate on the consolidation of the Revolution.
Then he was commissioner of war (1918-25), a position from which he organized the Red Army under very difficult conditions and defeated in a long civil war the so-called white movement armies (counterrevolutionaries) and their western allies (1918-20). His work was therefore crucial to the survival of Early USSR.
After the rise of Joseph Stalin thanks to victory of the Centre faction over the Right and Left oppositions in the Communist Party of the USSR over what to do with the New Economic Policy and Foreign Policy (Permanent Revolution vs Socialism in One Country) , Trotsky was removed from his positions and eventually expelled from the Soviet Union in February 1929.
He resided in Turkey, France, Norway and finally in Mexico, invited by General Lázaro Cárdenas, president of the country, in 1937. He initially lived in the home of the Mexican painter Diego Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo.
Trotsky did not give up in his revolutionary struggle, which he channeled from exile writing in defense of his ideas (works such as The Permanent Revolution, 1930; or the History of the Russian Revolution, 1932) and leading a dissident communist current (grouped in the Fourth International since 1938). He was assassinated by a Soviet agent Ramón Mercader :pika-pickaxe:
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Vegan recipe for the 11th was just posted! I had to work so it's kinda late.
Made some salsa but forgot to buy tomatoes so it's basically just pure peppers, so spicy :panting:
Lol according to my professor Stalin killed 45 million people and the day the Soviet union fell was "a very happy day for humanity"
I thought I was supposed to be brainwashed by cultural Marxists I'm just being brainwormed by morons :agony-shivering:
I wanna remind everyone that Marxism is a materialist science, not a moralist one. We are not on some teleological path towards divine goodness, we are simply actors within the action of dialectics. The masses rise not because they are imbued with a moral clarity and act with the blessing of virtue. They do so simply because the contradiction that requires both their service and their suffering cannot be sustained. What is ethical, what each person feels and is moved by, are not in themselves the source of the action or its purpose. Merely, these feelings and concepts are part of the action and the expression of the contradiction.
You don't know what you'd do in any situation besides your own because you're not in it. You can't be in it because all of what is You is contained in your particular circumstance. Your conditions are your circumstance, your body is your circumstance, your memories are your circumstance. There are no people of good or ill character, we are but clay with breath: all blameless and all consequential just the same.
Trotsky gets a lot of flak from people who contributed way less to communism than Trotsky
We wouldn't have had the USSR if Trotsky didn't reform the Red army, so no matter what I may think of him politically, I have to always thank him for that
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Holy shit. The unvaxxed in my fam are dropping like fucking flies
Today I sit and listen to the most reactionary of my coworkers (some of whom are antivax and allowed to work of course) talk about the vaccine mandate making things bad and I'm fucking mad lol. Most days I have an ability to check out mentally, but today I'm present and mad at these awful people
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Feeling very gay tonight. Also I'm everyone's dad now.
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