Ah, yes, I remember how the goal of communism was having a large armie and many tanks, and not silly things like equality, social justice, the end of commodity production, the end of alienation.
Bet Karl Marx woulda fucking loved Saddam Hussein!
I'll admit it, I'm a no-theory brainlet
Jace Hall
Aiden Powell
I guess getting killed by Nazis is one way to end alienation - because that would have happened if they suspended on the military industry.
Mason Long
Because he promoted revisionism, wrecking and a myriad of other crimes, thankfully based Stalin had him dealt with
Levi Ortiz
no
Noah Scott
Most people here are, don't feel bad about it.
Trotsky is mostly hated by tankïes who are still butthurt about his opposition to Stalinism, though anarchists also are resentful of him for crushing the Kronstadt rebellion.
Well, I'm sure the same could be said about any Soviet figure — so it's not really all that helpful.
Trotsky was for all intents and purposes a Leninist, though he opposed the NEP as a semi-capitulation of sorts. He was a steadfast internationalist, which is why he reviled the stalinist concept of "socialism in one country". He described the USSR under Stalin as a deformed workers' state, that is a properly socialist republic where workers' control of the means of production had been seized back by a bureaucratic clique. He also tried to explain why socialist revolutions had happened in backward shitholes but not in fully-developed capitalist regions, contrarily to what Marx had predicted.
I've never come across a liberal who actually knew anything about Trotsky beyond the fact that he opposed Stalin.
Grayson Ortiz
Trotsky was the name of my hamster from when I was 8 or 9. They told me it's breed was russian (pic related) so I wanted to name it after a russian guy. Trotsky was the only name of a russian guy I could come up with, for some reason.
Cameron Long
cybernetic planned economy=/=bureaucracy my dude
Jayden Miller
yeah whatever uncle joe
Noah Miller
The xorrect answer for bith qiestions is the fact that he's jewish
Ayden Wood
trot groups being sneaky collaborating bastards has nothing to do with the body of thought of Leon Trotsky.