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  • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Trotsky himself ranged from ok to very bad, but individually he really lost any particular relevance nearly a century ago.

    Trots (at least in the imperial core), on the other hand, were the people who decided going along with western anticommunism was a good strategy to ingratiate themselves to liberals (it didn’t work, because of course it didn’t) and some of those became disillusioned and transformed into imperialist reactionary neocons, taking Trotsky’s most problematic ideas with them and turning them to the cause of capitalist imperial projects.

    Now trots (at least the ones who arrive at it on their own) are pretty much just people who sit down and say “I am very interested in relitigating century old interpersonal drama and would like to make it my personality,” and it’s extremely annoying when someone makes being a pedantic sectarian their whole thing. There are maybe some trot orgs left that are ok, and I understand in the periphery (particularly Latin America) that there are trot orgs that are really only trot for historic reasons and aren’t self-defeatingly obsessed with being sectarian, but it’s one of those things that’s just sort of immediately sus otherwise because you generally don’t become a trot if you’re not looking to start shit with other leftists.

    Sort of like first world Maoist Third Worldists who aren’t necessarily wrong and whose theory is definitely based on some valid critiques, but they have a reputation for being violently sectarian and trying to wage protracted people’s wars against leftist orgs over pedantic shit.