Trotsky

  1. mauryk2
    mauryk2
    Trotskyism had no purpose after 1934. Trotsy had to either support Stalin or go all out in opposition. He couldn't completely denounce the revolution as he still hoped Stalin would fail and Trotsky would be brought to power in a coup. Neither happened. Incoherence followed by degeneration followed. So many of the Trots end up as neoconservatives.
  2. Wakizashi the Bolshevik
    The main objective of Trots troughout the Cold War was btrying to destroy the USSR. Trotsky just wanted power, that was all. He wanted to kill Stalin, but fortunately Stalin was earlier to kill Trotsky.
    Indeed many Trotskyites ended as concervatives anc collaborators with the fascists.
  3. Communist
    Communist
    Here's a link to a PDF file, of an old 1974 PLP article called "Trotsky: Just Another Right Winger". Interesting read, I thought.
  4. hugsandmarxism
    What a ****.
  5. LeninKobaMao
    LeninKobaMao
    What a ****.
    Agreed Trotsky was a power hungry ****.
  6. GracchusBabeuf
  7. Intelligitimate
    What would Leon Trotsky do
    If he was here right now,
    He'd make a 5 year plan
    And he'd follow through,
    That's what Leon Trotsky'd do.

    When Leon Trotsky was in the revolution,
    Fighting in the cold,
    He killed some anarchos and a tripped a lotz,
    While wearing a blind fold.

    When Trotsky was in the Litovsk,
    Fighting German bears,
    He used his magical peace speech
    And lost the USSR's share!

    So what would Leon Trotsky do
    If he were here today,
    I'm sure he'd kiss an ass or two,
    That's what Leon Trotsky'd do.

    I want this Trotskyism out of me,
    It has stunted me as a re-vo-lu-tion-ary.

    And I just want the capitalists
    To stop fighting everyone

    For Lenin I'll be an activist, too,
    Cos that's what Leon Trotsky would do.

    And what would Leon Trotsky do,
    He'd call all the liberals in town,
    And tell them to unite for truth
    That's what Leon Trotsky would do.

    When Leon Trotsky travelled through time
    To the year 2010,
    He fought the evil totalitarian kings
    and saved capitalism yet again

    And when Leon Trotsky built the USSR,
    He beat up Joseph Stalin.

    Cos Leon Trotsky doesn't take shit from bu-reau-cra-cy

    So lets all get together,
    And unite to stop our revolution
    And we'll save Capitalism and Fascism too,
    Cos that's what Leon Trotsky do.

    And we'll save Capitalism and Fascism too,
    Cos that's what Leon Trotsky'd dooooo,

    THAT'S WHAT LEON TROTSKY'D DO!!
  8. GracchusBabeuf
    Love that poem.
  9. Intelligitimate
    To the tune of O Clementine:

    In a Compound

    Down in Mexico
    Hiding from the
    Comintern
    Like Karl Kautsky, Leon Trotsky's
    Writings made our stomachs turn

    O Mercador, O Mercador

    O Mercador, O dear Ramon
    For twenty years you were lost to us
    Now you've found your way back home

    Leon's speeches, very wordy, blowing bubbles, soft and fine

    Called the Party bureaucratic cause he did not like it's line

    O Mercador, O Mercador

    O Mercador, O dear Ramon
    For twenty years you were lost to us
    Now you've found your way back home

    Went Mercador to see Trotsky

    1940 was the date
    Criticized him with an ice pick
    Only fifteen years too late

    [Refrain]

    Trotsky will be long remembered for one thing we all know well
    Cost a comrade just to off him twenty years inside a cell

    [refrain]
  10. Kassad
    Kassad
    You guys are pretty fucked up sometimes and I don't say that sarcastically or in jest.
  11. Intelligitimate
    What's wrong, Kassad? You don't have a soft-spot for the "Old Man," do ya?
  12. LeninBalls
    LeninBalls
    Just why bother making fun of Trotsky/ism? It's pretty old and I must say boring now.
  13. hugsandmarxism
    Trotsky's dead and Trotskyism does enough to poke fun at itself so... yeah. We need more educational resources in this group, and less worrying about ultra-lefts and Trots.
  14. Charles Xavier
    Trotskyists are irrelevant the fact you give them attention gives them reasons to exist. Trotskyism doesn't exist as a real organized movement. They play their roles as disorganizers. Trotskyists treat socialism as a religion. So Ignore the Zealots and organize and agitate. A communist is homeless without the party.
  15. GracchusBabeuf
    Trotsky's dead and Trotskyism does enough to poke fun at itself so... yeah. We need more educational resources in this group, and less worrying about ultra-lefts and Trots.
    I'd also have to say as Marxist-Leninists, we are under attack all the time from these ultra-lefts and Trots, so they provoke much of this by baiting us all the time. Its unfortunate, but true. But you're right. We need to stop worrying about them and concentrate on educating ourselves.
  16. hugsandmarxism
    I'd also have to say as Marxist-Leninists, we are under attack all the time from these ultra-lefts and Trots, so they provoke much of this by baiting us all the time. Its unfortunate, but true. But you're right. We need to stop worrying about them and concentrate on educating ourselves.
    Yeah. We can leave them to wallow in their own irrelevance. After all, there is alot of responsibility heaped on our shoulders here. We have a world to win, comrades.