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minus-squareChocrates@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·30 days agoLenin’s party at least lifted up and used folks like Stalin, so it may have been better but I doubt it would have been “good”. I don’t really know a thing about Trotsky though, other than he was Lenin’s chosen successor and then had to flee before getting assassinated
minus-squareNOT_RICK@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·30 days agoTrotsky was inclined to empower the workers’ councils (Soviets) to be decision-makers. He was far more democratic than most of the other Bolsheviks. Not saying it would have worked, but I highly doubt it would have been worse than the Stalinist era.
minus-squareChocrates@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·29 days agoWas Trotsky a Russian chauvinism? But based solely on Stalin, it’d be hard to do worse, by whatever measure you have for worse.
minus-squareNOT_RICK@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·29 days agoHe was a Ukrainian Jew so I would say no as he was already an outsider in that respect. Then again Stalin wasn’t exactly Russian either
minus-squareGorklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·30 days agoDude eventually got ice axed. Definitely not a good way to go.
Lenin’s party at least lifted up and used folks like Stalin, so it may have been better but I doubt it would have been “good”.
I don’t really know a thing about Trotsky though, other than he was Lenin’s chosen successor and then had to flee before getting assassinated
Trotsky was inclined to empower the workers’ councils (Soviets) to be decision-makers. He was far more democratic than most of the other Bolsheviks. Not saying it would have worked, but I highly doubt it would have been worse than the Stalinist era.
Was Trotsky a Russian chauvinism? But based solely on Stalin, it’d be hard to do worse, by whatever measure you have for worse.
He was a Ukrainian Jew so I would say no as he was already an outsider in that respect. Then again Stalin wasn’t exactly Russian either
Haha yeah
Dude eventually got ice axed. Definitely not a good way to go.