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Shitting on Trots isn't even slightly controversial everybody hates them haha
Eh, I know a bunch of ones that are pretty good (China Meiville for example is great). And Trotsky is well worth reading, particularly his pre-1925 stuff.
But the stereotype of the reflexively anti-AES squabbling splitting newspaper club exists for a reason.
They really need to chill with the newspaper pushing especially in events/actions they didn't even help organize
We should be more specific here. As I see it pushing their unrelated publications / promoting their org unprompted is a kind of tailism, a tendency to solely insert oneself in unfolding events. But that isn't to say that we should escew agitation as a whole as the opposite pole of tailism is opportunism. Rather, agitation, pamphleting at a protest, etc. should be focused on connecting the specific issue to a broader revolutionary line. In a sentence: 'from the masses, to the masses.'
I mean that's fair, but in my experience they're also the nly ones who actually show up consistently.
British Trots turning up to a cost of living protest and handing out single piece of toilet paper sized pamphlets covered in tiny writing that are a diatribe about how China is imperialist and Stalin betrayed the Russian revolution to impoverished single parents attending their first political event like:
Not to say that leftists shouldn't be an influence at more moderate events but they always go about it in the worst way lmao