• zqps@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    You’re directly contradicting yourself in the first paragraph, and your statements on Trotsky’s beliefs are far removed from anything we actually know about the man.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      4 days ago

      It’s not at all a contradiction. At best, Trotsky genuinely believed he was saving socialism by opposing the soviets and organizing against them, while the soviets were trying to build socialism on a more theoretically correct path. The least charitable reading of Trotsky is that he was just an opportunist that wanted fame, and didn’t actually do anything he said he did to oppose the Soviets.