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

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but the point is wrong doesn't mean insane or stupid, and it doesn't serve any of us to engage with ideas with this kind of reddit-tier irony-poisoned otherizing.

Like I sincerely hope self-described leftists can think in more complex ways than soyjak and chad, but over the last few months I've come to doubt that's universally true on this site.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't think many of us are engaging with Trotskyism in a shallow way in this post. We're critiquing his Eurocentrism, wrong view of the peasantry being a reactionary class, and opposition to AES.

I 100% agree that "dunk culture" and thought-terminating terms aren't helpful, and we should elaborate why we think something is wrong.