I don't know anything please don't hurt me.
To preface, I don't know shit about fuck, but my interpretation of Trotsky is that he was next in line to head the ussr after Lenin and Stalin hated him and pushed a censorship campaign and removed him from pictures and shit and banished him and then sent someone to pickaxe his face.
From what I know, he had criticisms of the ussr from the left and was more ML than Stalin and was more "pro-worker/citizen," but I very VERY much could be talking out of my ass and was just fed propaganda, which please correct me if so.
Gotcha lol. So basically he just talked too much talk, didn't walk enough walk, and had a weird fandom?
He walked the walk for sure during the Russian revolution, but after being forced into exile he was very much an armchair critic imo.
so he’s pretty much the embodiment of the western left minus the do good shit part