The reason people argue about it is that Trotskyism is used to delegitimize either the whole USSR, or the USSR before Khrushchev's revisionist nonsense was added.
Yeah, I had a conversation with a friend about Stalin the other day and he brought up Trotsky multiple times. It's smart to keep the focus elsewhere because overall Trotsky is basically a footnote, but it helps to know something.
That's just it, Trotsky is like the face of Useful Idiocy in the west. Every faux-progressive latches on to him as a hero and a martyr because he opposed the Stalinist Regime. I don't talk about Trotsky and other third campists when no one brings them up, it's a waste of breath, but when someone does bring them up the idea that they were good Marxists needs to be killed with a pickaxe to the skull.
Honestly it's cringe to have any strong opinions on Trotsky. That's like having an opinion on some Medieval anti-Pope
The reason people argue about it is that Trotskyism is used to delegitimize either the whole USSR, or the USSR before Khrushchev's revisionist nonsense was added.
Yeah, I had a conversation with a friend about Stalin the other day and he brought up Trotsky multiple times. It's smart to keep the focus elsewhere because overall Trotsky is basically a footnote, but it helps to know something.
That's just it, Trotsky is like the face of Useful Idiocy in the west. Every faux-progressive latches on to him as a hero and a martyr because he opposed the Stalinist Regime. I don't talk about Trotsky and other third campists when no one brings them up, it's a waste of breath, but when someone does bring them up the idea that they were good Marxists needs to be killed with a pickaxe to the skull.