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What's so bad about Trotsky and Trotskyism, both in theory and in practice? (lemmygrad.ml)

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u/allinwonderornot - originally from r/GenZhou
I know Trotsky is hated because he betrayed Stalin. However, simply by looking at the idea of Trotskyism (permanent revolution, etc), it may seem impractical, but far from bad?

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u/allinwonderornot - originally from r/GenZhou
That's very educational. It does seem that Trotskyism is just anti Stalin aesthetics masquerading as an ideology.

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u/Angel_of_Communism - originally from r/GenZhou
There's more to it than that.

Trotsky's problem was: he was a petit bourgeois intellectual.

He recruited like minded people.

Trots today are overwhelmingly white, middle class intellectuals.

Wit petit bourgeois sentiments.

They don't actually LIKE the masses.

They have a strong tendency to look down on those toiling masses, because they were never part of them.

This is WHY Trosky was such an asshole, and also why his people never got anywhere, and were such massive splitters.

You see the same from the western 'left.'