There was a solid case for supporting Al-Qaeda against the US occupation of Afghanistan on anti-imperialist grounds, at least. I'm slightly impressed that Al Qaeda accepted their help.
Yeah my one interaction with a major US Trot group was me trying to be friendly and have a conversation about politics and labor and they kept trying to get me to buy their newspaper. I eventually caved and bought one but I thought it was really dumb to focus on that - like here you have this prole saying he's trying to organize his workplace and is politically frustrated and all you do is try to get him to buy a paper.
I don't really hate Trotsky much but Trotskyists are super weird, didn't one of Trotskyite groups support ISIS in Syria?
Yeah, but so did the Italian Marxist-Leninist Party.
Or the Greek Communist party (not KKE) that thinks Russia was behind 9/11 and the EU is based.
There's cranks everywhere.
But this weren't them having "hot takes". this was an actual group out of Libya and Syria.
but yes i agree every org has its cranks
The infamous Leon Sedov Brigade? They're a bunch of Argentinians, I believe. They supported Al-Qaeda, not ISIS btw.
Probably insignificant in the grand scale of things, but yeah, actually involved in fighting.
Edit: Apparently it disbanded in 2015 after the Battle of Aleppo.
There was a solid case for supporting Al-Qaeda against the US occupation of Afghanistan on anti-imperialist grounds, at least. I'm slightly impressed that Al Qaeda accepted their help.
weird i could've sworn i heard :brace-cowboy: talk about them being with ISIS
Yeah my one interaction with a major US Trot group was me trying to be friendly and have a conversation about politics and labor and they kept trying to get me to buy their newspaper. I eventually caved and bought one but I thought it was really dumb to focus on that - like here you have this prole saying he's trying to organize his workplace and is politically frustrated and all you do is try to get him to buy a paper.