So I know that trotskyites get a lot of heat from this community but I’ve been reading about trotsky and his opinions seem pretty good? He called himself a Bolshevik-Leninist which obviously isn’t great but the idea of international socialism seems better, IMO, that national or Stalinist type socialism. Maybe I’m misunderstanding something here though so somebody tell me why I’m wrong.
It sounds like it has less to do with the theory but the people who identify with it? Also that there’s a little bit in there for everybody to hate lol
factor in that capital reaction (Hearst, the CIA, etc.) pushed Trotsky hard among the western left as a wedge against the USSR