Trotskyists have an actual position that isn't class essentialist challenge (impossible)

Trots try to be on the right side of liberation struggle challenges (hard)

Trots trying not to become neo-cons challenge (extremely hard)

Trots trying not to lie about lenin's history of stalin challenge (impossible)

Trots having a position that isn't just 'the opposite of what stalin did' challenge (literally impossible)

no imma trot bash here, they're consistently shit in their ideology and even on Palestine most just bemoan how 'both sides bad'. 'Leninists' my ass.

i don't even like stalin that much but jesus christ its all they think about

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Unwitting saboteur, yes. A bonafide Communist hero of the Russian revolution and a great man, i’ll argue yes

    Unwitting?!?! He lead an opposition bloc that caused tremendous problems for the USSR and, though he got turned down, he enthusiastically tried to collaborate with the fucking HUAC just to have a platform to attack "Stalinism"

    He wasn't great, he was a petty, petty man whose significance is wildly overblown by the tragicomic hagiographies by Orwell and the rest of the compatible left.