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Why do people here really not like Trotskyists? (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Why do people here really not like Trotskyists? Is it just because of his beef with Stalin and not an actual criticism of his views? Do people really not think a global movement would be superior for the betterment of all people?

Edit: Thank you to everyone who provided context and history, y’all are a wealth of knowledge.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

an ideology that is a weird blend of Trotskyism and anarchism and most of those people and their ideas are absolutely cursed.

I can think of some very cursed ways to combine those, and the ones that are most likely seem quite bad. But if somebody combined the trot ability to show up everywhere with anarchist praxis, that'd be a heck of a movement.

Also if somebody combined Trotskyist splitting with anarchists never being quite the same kind of anarchist as the next anarchist, it'd probably be at least funny to watch from a distance.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The showing up everywhere thing really is the Trot special ability. I don't know if they have moles or Minority report precognition or what, but Trots have been at literally every left wing event I've ever been to, even ones that weren't announced to the general public.

The Trots are even better than the Avakians at being everywhere