Are they really editing publications?
I am fairly certain Marxists.org is run by trotskyites, unfortunately.
Evidence dump
Note how Trotsky is presented here.
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Compare it to how they present Stalin.
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In their Library, here are but a few examples of them using "Stalinist" this same way.
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Everybody's favorite anti-Stalinist hero...
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They offer such an invaluable service. They are also, unfortunately, insufferable.
library on prolewiki will replace them one day!
(yes this is hopium)
Pièce de résistance, here they are not only being obnoxious Trotsky stans, but also racist.
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Racism goes with the Troskyite territory. Take this, for example, from Trotsky's "If America Should Go Communist" (1934):
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I don't quite feel like subjecting myself to the text itself (I'm on a workbreak, I'll probably remember later and source it), but I'm almost certain Trotsky thought Afrikan-Amerikans spoke a different language lol.
IIRC he was asked if black Amerikans constituted their own nation and deserved support in their self-determination thereof.
Ah, nevermind. Here we are. Top ten Trotsky quote.
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Fair enough for a Soviet politician not to know every facet of Amerikan race issues, I suppose. Still... I can't deny how silly this is, and knowing this little probably should have prevented him from speaking on the issue at all.
is run by trotskyites
Their web design is the first thing that tipped me off.
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I guess Stalin's corpse was responsible for the crushing of the Hungarian revolt. Khruschev was a good little anti-Stalinist, the bravest of the USSR's leadership in fact!
They offer such an invaluable service
It just makes me trust it less knowing that they’re editing stuff like this without making it clear they’re doing this to people who are looking for a Marxist text and stumble across a copy there.
mfw you're so anti-dogmatic you literally just edit the parts of history and theory you don't like out
it's really weird how Trotskyists will complain about the USSR not being liberal enough. Secret police was one of Trotsky's ideas
Trotsky was a lot of things he was not liberal
Trotsky sought to organize the proletariat along military lines. Trotsky gave the order to crush the Kronstadt rebellion.
His "anti-Stalinism" makes him a romantic lil anti-authoritarian bean in the eyes of imperial "communists", though.
Some of the endnotes inserted by Progress’s Stalinist editors in editions up to and including the last editions in the 1970s are fraught with polemics aimed at prejudicing the reader against this or that Bolshevik or revolutionary who, since Lenin’s death, had fallen out of favor with the current leadership of the USSR at the time the notes were inserted. Wherever possible, we have deleted, corrected, or toned down these polemics. In addition, we have added our own notes where appropriate, integrating them into the whole of the endnotes for each document.
Wow yeah that's pretty ridiculous. They claim to be archivists and yet they're clearly editors.
And this is on top the original notes and editions often based on khrushchevite (or worse!) editions.
Have I got a better website for you?
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/ProleWiki:Main_page https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/ProleWiki:Library
Yep and we don't edit books bc we don't like what they say, we provide annotations instead so you can easily tell what is from PW and what is from the original edition we copy from. We also offer our own foreword on some works, again explicitly marked, so that readers can easily understand why they should read a book
It's run by sectarian trots, this is unfortunately pretty standard
