Named after Iskra, but not a single book by Lenin, 3 by Trotksy and even a couple anarchists. This is the trend among university “communists” over here. If a revolution was successful, it must’ve not been a real revolution, except for the aesthetics.
There’s something of a conspiracy theory that US government started to specifically promote Trotskyism after the 1950’s to preemptively defang the growing popularity of communism
It’s not a conspiracy, the U.S. government circulated documents detailing their plans and support for Trotskyist parties.
Which parties and which documents? I remember figures like Shachtman and Burnham beeing reactionary.
I don’t have them on hand, my apologies. I just remember reading pictures of the pamphlets.
yes, right after stalin passed away and khrushchov secret speech, the worst part is that it worked. communists parties all around enrolled in unproductive debates about stalin vs trotsky and the possibility of a better and idyllic socialism under trotsky ideas, oppose to the “stalinist war socialism”