The rural peasantry of China, Russia, Vietnam, and elsewhere were the largest and most oppressed class of the 20th century, and made up the backbone of their respective revolutionary armies.
I would also include India’s vast rural population, though as we know unfortunately they never had a revolution to liberate them the way the other three countries you mentioned did.
Indeed, Trotskyism has a track record of 100% failure and was such a collosally erroneous line of thinking that many ex-Trotskyists later became the most unhinged neocons.
Yet for some reason the ideological allure of Trotskyism’s messianic purity cult manages to this day to continue to lead the western left into dead ends with and without CIA help.
The rural peasantry of China, Russia, Vietnam, and elsewhere were the largest and most oppressed class of the 20th century, and made up the backbone of their respective revolutionary armies.
Trotky’s wrong answer to the peasant question is largely why the global south has rejected trotskyism.
I would also include India’s vast rural population, though as we know unfortunately they never had a revolution to liberate them the way the other three countries you mentioned did.
Indeed, Trotskyism has a track record of 100% failure and was such a collosally erroneous line of thinking that many ex-Trotskyists later became the most unhinged neocons.
Yet for some reason the ideological allure of Trotskyism’s messianic purity cult manages to this day to continue to lead the western left into dead ends with and without CIA help.
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