I know where this meme comes from. While there was funding from Germany and probably other western countries , it wasn't as prominent or as relevant as suggested. Proofs to this are just some money found in ⛏️rotsky wallet and some lenin stuff.
This is simply false
Also everyone knows Gorbachev was a fucking sellout
Fuck off.
Trots are ML
But the symbol is not that important and is a nice sympol to be used by all leftist
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both are literal neocon propagandists who support "america is communist" tier conspiracy theories
Lenin literally said that ⛏️rotsky should be his successor as leader of the Bolshevik party and explicitly said that Stalin was power-hungry and should be ousted. And he was right, too.
Oh fuck, I cahn't believe they've dahn this.
no, he didn't?
if we're operating on the fact that the two "testaments" are real (which is already a stretch since Lenin was already mostly paralyzed by that point, and neither of the letters seem to follow the standard procedures for dictation), they mostly focus on general criticisms of all the leaders of the party.
Stalin was accused of being too "rude", and the only reason people come with this idea that ⛏️rotsky was the choice of successor was that he had the least amount of bad things said about him. In any case, Stalin had already been the chosen leader and had been working with Lenin for months, so I don't see why some out of the blue criticism of him should bar him from political service altogether
Only StaliNEETs now try to say they are fake, as you said everyone was criticized
Most of them are real. But his wife could have made up some of them (though it’s pretty clear that Stalin acting like a dick to Linins wife hurt Lenin to)
Stalin by killing other bolsheviks betray Lenins hope for unity,also Stalin was somewhat of a newcomer to the who will become the new leader, so i dont think that he was destined to become the new leader
Anyway ,who cares what the bald guy said, we realized what Stalin worth when he started killing his comrades
Trotsky has never yet held a firm opinion on any important question of Marxism. He always contrives to worm his way into the cracks of any given difference of opinion, and desert one side for the other. At the present moment he is in the company of the Bundists and the liquidators. And these gentlemen do not stand on ceremony where the Party is concerned.
Trotsky behaves like a despicable careerist and factionalist of the Ryazanov-and-co type. Either equality on the editorial board, subordination to the central committee and no one's transfer to Paris except ⛏️rotsky's (the scoundrel, he wants to 'fix up' the whole rascally crew of 'Pravda' at our expense!) – or a break with this swindler and an exposure of him in the CO. He pays lip-service to the Party and behaves worse than any other of the factionalists.
In the very first words of his resolution ⛏️rotsky expressed the full spirit of the worst kind of conciliation, 'conciliation' in inverted commas, of a sectarian and philistine conciliation, which deals with 'given persons' and not the given line of policy, the given spirit the given ideological and political content of Party work.
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It is in this that the enormous difference lies between real partyism; which consists in purging the Party of liquidationism and otzovism, and the 'conciliation' of ⛏️rotsky and Co., which actually RENDERS THE MOST FAITHFUL SERVICE TO THE LIQUIDATORS AND OTZOVISTS, AND IS THEREFORE AN EVIL THAT IS ALL THE MORE DANGEROUS TO THE PARTY THE MORE CUNNINGLY, ARTFULLY AND RHETORICALLY IT CLOAKS ITSELF WITH PROFESSEDLY PRO-PARTY, PROFESSEDLY ANTI-FACTIONAL DECLAMATIONS.
The struggle between Bolshevism and Menshevism is… a struggle over the question whether to support the liberals or to overthrow the hegemony of the liberals over the peasantry. Therefore to attribute [as did ⛏️rotsky] our splits to the influence of the intelligentsia, to the immaturity of the proletariat, etc, is a childishly naive repetition of liberal fairy-tales.
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Trotsky distorts Bolshevism, because he has never been able to form any definite views on the role of the proletariat in the Russian bourgeois revolution.
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Therefore, when ⛏️rotsky tells the German comrades that he represents the 'general Party tendency' I am obliged to declare that ⛏️rotsky represents only his own faction and enjoys a certain amount of confidence exclusively among the otzovists and the liquidators.
It is an adventure in the ideological sense. ⛏️rotsky groups all the enemies of Marxism, he unites Potresov and Maximov, who detest the 'Lenin-Plekhanov' bloc, as they like to call it. ⛏️rotsky UNITES ALL THOSE TO WHOM IDEOLOGICAL DECAY IS DEAR; ALL WHO ARE NOT CONCERNED WITH THE DEFENCE OF MARXISM, all philistines who do not understand the reasons for the struggle and who do not wish to learn, think and discover the ideological roots of the divergence of views. At this time of confusion, disintegration, and wavering it is easy for ⛏️rotsky to become the 'hero of the hour' and gather all the shabby elements around himself. The more openly this attempt is made, the more spectacular will be the defeat.
It is impossible to argue with ⛏️rotsky on the merits of the issue, because ⛏️rotsky holds no views whatever. We can and should argue with confirmed liquidators and otzovists, but it is no use arguing with a man whose game is to hide the errors of both these trends; in his case the thing to do is to expose him as a diplomat of the smallest calibre.
Trotsky's dirty campaign against Pravda is one mass of lies and slander… This intriguer and liquidator goes on lying right and left.
What a swine this ⛏️rotsky is – Left, phrases, and a bloc with the Right against the Zimmerwald Left!! He ought to be exposed (by you) if only in a brief letter to Sotsial-Demokrat!
There is also a letter from Kollontai who… has returned to Norway from America. N. Iv. and Pavlov… had won Novy Mir, she says,… but … ⛏️rotsky arrived, and this scoundrel at once ganged up with the Right wing of Novy Mir against the Left Zimmerwaldists!! That's it!! That's ⛏️rotsky for you!! Always true to himself, twists, swindles, poses as a Left, helps the Right, so long as he can…
Yeah, Lenin loved ⛏️rotsky