"Trotskyism" is only useful as a cynical way to alienate contemporary political dissent from any identification between attempts at creating proletarian states & anti-capitalist "theorizing" today
Yeah some groups definitely call everything they don't like Trotskyite, and it gets appropriated osmotically into other spaces (like Ben Norton using it as an insult in grayzone articles lol).
"Trotskyism" is only useful as a cynical way to alienate contemporary political dissent from any identification between attempts at creating proletarian states & anti-capitalist "theorizing" today
Yeah some groups definitely call everything they don't like Trotskyite, and it gets appropriated osmotically into other spaces (like Ben Norton using it as an insult in grayzone articles lol).
i remember being called a "Kautskyite" by a much more staunch ML person on the sub and it made me do a double take.
I really think that's a better catch-all term hehe
Get back at them by saying that in fact Lenin was more of a Kautskyite than Kautsky (which is kinda true).
hehe, if r/CTH still existed, i would definitely try