Reading accounts from communists of the time that weren’t Soviets, but did study at the Comintern, like Harry Haywood, we can see that Trotsky’s theories were taught and debated up until he was kicked out of the party, and the debate over kicking him out took years and Trotsky had ample opportunity to give his side of the events
Afterwards, Trotsky was conspiring with fascists to overthrow Stalin and pull the USSR out of the war, which would have not only allowed the Anti-Comintern Pact to win the war, but they would have gathered strength and attacked the USSR from both fronts once making peace with the UK and US
Trotskyists since then are a mixed bag in my book. There are those, especially in Latin America, that have been martyred by fascists and deserve our respect for their heroism
There’s the problem of covering up sexual assault by ISO and then the org trying to whitewash the whole affair by “disbanding” and taking over DSA from the inside. However, if we’re pitching stones from glass houses here, us MLs have the filth of Beria in our ranks
My answer is no, and while we can form united fronts with Trots and other leftists to fight capitalism and do mutual aid work and generally raise class consciousness, left unity isn’t really a feasible goal because it leads to orgs breaking down over ideological fights. Compare this to community aid work by ecumenical religious organizations, they just do the work to help poor people and don’t debate whether Christianity, Islam, or Judaism is the correct religion while doing the work
I’ll also add that since /u/ComradeClucky is a mayor and has a bunch of crypto-communists in elected positions, a Trot in your cabinet is better than a liberal, and you should work with Trots pragmatically to achieve policy goals of improving the position of workers and raising class consciousness
Interesting. I know the Russian government elected not to declassify the last caches of documents on Beria, and I was aware that Beria did hold true to Stalin’s vision of making the USSR even more democratic than the other Central Committee members wanted. I’m looking forward to what the declassification will lead to. I‘m also aware that Stalin’s grandson made some statements about Beria’s innocence and Stalin’s murder. Got some resources on this (in addition to Grover Furr, who I’m working on anyway)?
Reading accounts from communists of the time that weren’t Soviets, but did study at the Comintern, like Harry Haywood, we can see that Trotsky’s theories were taught and debated up until he was kicked out of the party, and the debate over kicking him out took years and Trotsky had ample opportunity to give his side of the events
Afterwards, Trotsky was conspiring with fascists to overthrow Stalin and pull the USSR out of the war, which would have not only allowed the Anti-Comintern Pact to win the war, but they would have gathered strength and attacked the USSR from both fronts once making peace with the UK and US
Trotskyists since then are a mixed bag in my book. There are those, especially in Latin America, that have been martyred by fascists and deserve our respect for their heroism
There’s the problem of covering up sexual assault by ISO and then the org trying to whitewash the whole affair by “disbanding” and taking over DSA from the inside. However, if we’re pitching stones from glass houses here, us MLs have the filth of Beria in our ranks
My answer is no, and while we can form united fronts with Trots and other leftists to fight capitalism and do mutual aid work and generally raise class consciousness, left unity isn’t really a feasible goal because it leads to orgs breaking down over ideological fights. Compare this to community aid work by ecumenical religious organizations, they just do the work to help poor people and don’t debate whether Christianity, Islam, or Judaism is the correct religion while doing the work
This is a wonderful post, thanks comrade.
I’ll only add that many consider Trotskyism Euro-centrist / First worldist, here’s a good vid on it.
You flatter me, comrade
I’ll also add that since /u/ComradeClucky is a mayor and has a bunch of crypto-communists in elected positions, a Trot in your cabinet is better than a liberal, and you should work with Trots pragmatically to achieve policy goals of improving the position of workers and raising class consciousness
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Interesting. I know the Russian government elected not to declassify the last caches of documents on Beria, and I was aware that Beria did hold true to Stalin’s vision of making the USSR even more democratic than the other Central Committee members wanted. I’m looking forward to what the declassification will lead to. I‘m also aware that Stalin’s grandson made some statements about Beria’s innocence and Stalin’s murder. Got some resources on this (in addition to Grover Furr, who I’m working on anyway)?
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Thanks comrade, much appreciated