Viki makes the argument that it’s basically the same as Leninism. Is it just because he hated Stalin?

  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    4 years ago

    That's the big issue I still see with Trots, their core theory doesn't deviate that much but theres still absurd amounts of old divisions and hostility, like I was part of a trot group for about 6 months and while just out having a drink they would do mini rants about how Stalin was barely literate and an awful speaker and thats why Trotsky should have been leader and shit like that.

    • NotARobot [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Trotsky was the most qualified candidate for General Secretary in the history of the Soviet Union!

      • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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        4 years ago

        Its so bizarre as well cause IIRC when Stalins personal library was looked through there was a total of 20,000 books spread around several locations and many with heavy annotations so the idea that Stalin was somehow less intelligent or merely more "politically shrewd/intelligent" than Trotsky just sounds like a huge cope.