Funny how Trotsky inhabits this middle-ground for ultras. He was simultaneously a soft-boi libertarian-minded revolutionary murdered by the capricious bastard Stalin, and to anyone who’s paid the slightest bit of attention the red terror personified. All the blame that anarchists could levy at Trotsky gets diverted to Lenin instead because he was the dictator who told Trotsky to violently suppress those rebellions, ofc.
Although in retrospect I think he was in the right to push for it. Kronstadt was a workers’ rebellion, absolutely, they just happened to be upset they had to work with Jewish workers. Makhno’s absolute banditry of “liberating” cities of all of their food and their virginities deserved no less than what it got, too.
Funny how Trotsky inhabits this middle-ground for ultras. He was simultaneously a soft-boi libertarian-minded revolutionary murdered by the capricious bastard Stalin, and to anyone who’s paid the slightest bit of attention the red terror personified. All the blame that anarchists could levy at Trotsky gets diverted to Lenin instead because he was the dictator who told Trotsky to violently suppress those rebellions, ofc.
Although in retrospect I think he was in the right to push for it. Kronstadt was a workers’ rebellion, absolutely, they just happened to be upset they had to work with Jewish workers. Makhno’s absolute banditry of “liberating” cities of all of their food and their virginities deserved no less than what it got, too.