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.
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.