• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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.

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      3 months ago

      Was Trotsky a Russian chauvinism? But based solely on Stalin, it’d be hard to do worse, by whatever measure you have for worse.