This one is probably my favorite common misunderstanding of Marxist dialectics, the radical centrist dialectics, never fails to make me smile
marxist dialectics is
thesis
antithesisand then they stay like that, forevefr ; in permfect harmony
Radical Centrist Dialectics Rosa Luxembourg: "Reform, not revolution."
Dude i LOVE when people talk about the fall of the USSR and bring up Stalin like bro wasnt both dead, and the whole reason it made it as far as it did. Itd be like if America collapsed today and someone was like "This is Abraham Lincolns fault"
Replace Stalin and Trotsky with Mao and Khrushchev
dialectical materialism is when you take opposing views and run them through a blender
soviet citizens should have voted in november for trotsky, so he could reach across the aisle
Trotsky, who famously said that FDR’s New Deal would bankrupt America lol.
Sorry but Trotsky simply doesn’t understand how money works and the USSR would never have gotten out of its NEP phase if he had been given the power to intervene. The USSR probably wouldn’t even last two decades.
Sorry idealists, it was a revolutionary necessity that Trotsky was killed because he was too horny in that letter to his wife that one time
For my money, not having the burden of fighting against a blood thirsty empire that just discovered and immediately used nuclear weapons and began expanding that force thousands of times over in order to subjugate the world would have freed up some resources for more practical projects.
Stalin invited Trotsky to join the Central Committee. Trotsky refused and instead organised underground agitation against the soviets, encouraging sabotage and aligning with ultras.
This was not a "muh both sides". Stalin was no saint but Trotsky was in the wrong. He was an opportunist who wanted power.
He didn't want to share leadership with Stalin who was too "crude" and "peasant-like" and the wrong race. He couldn't stand the fact that a "mighty intellectual" like himself wasn't Lenin's successor.
He then fled abroad rather than face justice and did more harm to the socialist movement than any fascist or liberal has ever done. He fucking deserved worse than that ice-pick.
A split in the left is never frivolous and I'm tired of people thinking this.
https://www.iskrabooks.org/stalin-history-and-critique
All of the pretendedly-mourned-in-the-west "old bolsheviks" that were shot (which ignores all the ones that weren't and lived through the purges, and the ones who died of old age or illness or even anti-Bolshevik assassination a decade or two before the purges, and ignores that half those mfs who were shot that they talk about spent more of their revolutionary careers as mensheviks and SRs against the Bolsheviks than as actual Bolsheviks) Stalin protected a from expulsion constantly. It's actually frustrating in hindsight how many times he voted to keep (now-)obvious wreckers or incompetents in the party against others' judgement.
Including shielding them from Lenin lol. Lenin wanted Kamenev and Zinoviev expelled before the October revolution even, saying he didn't even consider them comrades anymore and would do everything in his strength to secure their expulsion because they betrayed him and the party and the revolution and the workers by leaking that the Bolsheviks were going to call for a general strike and armed insurrection, in order to complain about it in a BOURGEOIS NEWSPAPER after they lost the vote against insurrection in the committee vote proper. Stalin went to bat for them.
Revolution: The Enemy of the Good? 
