Trotsky always defended the USSR
I'll admit it, I'm a no-theory brainlet
Landon Jackson
Cooper Collins
Tankies are basically socialist zionists with the USSR as their Israel and they cannot handle any criticism of the Soviet Union beyond "it didn't bounce on Stalin's dick hard enough".
Tankyism still still struggles with the fact that "really existing socialism" no longer really exists.
In addition, Trotskyists have been more popular in the West than they have, and they have the dual forces of envy over the popularity of Trotskyism and a hipster smugness over being in a more fringe ideology, usually with claims of being the purer socialists despite the fact that Stalin was actually more moderate than Trotsky.
Anthony Thompson
Trotskyism is only "more popular" because the CIA wanted it to be. Same with anarcho-liberalism. It's time to let them die.
Julian Mitchell
That's quite the bold claim you're makin, I don't suppose you would have any fucking p r o o f
Gavin White
CIA supported everyone who criticized USSR. Why does it surprise you that it includes trots?
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Carter Jones
CIA WAS NAZTROT GANG
Unironically though this doesn't make Trotsky's argument any more or less compelling, seeing it was only convenient for the CIA to fund it.
Asher Diaz
this , and also his theory of a degenerated workers state/state capitalism is fundamentally idealist.
Kayden Ramirez
Wrong again, bucko
Hunter Murphy
funny i had the exact opposite experience moving from a teenage anarchist to more sympathetic to state socialism as an adult
Thomas Ross
Nice straw man