#trotskyists

[girltestes]

Normal leftist: here’s a chart of things you can do right now, especially if you are disabled/immunocompromised and can’t be involved in revolutionary change in the traditional way it is demanded

RCA “trump is not a fascist” no nuance Trotskyist: so actually, this was not included in the ancient scriptures of Marx and Engels, therefore it’s just identity politics and does nothing to forward class struggle, pls join our Revolutionary Party and buy our Trotskyist newspaper!

[nyancrimew]

What actually makes trots worse than other commies

they don't do anything besides printing and selling newspapers, telling everyone who does any important work they're counter revolutionary and dreaming of being the vanguard one day

[soup-mother]

girl who tells Brits "Stalin is the only reason your country even still exists" but makes it really clear that that is the reason she doesn't like stalin

[apas-95]

small reminder stalinism isn't communism, there is no such a thing as "socialism in one country" + stalinists are often queerphobes helping bigotry + you're still an environment killer

surrendering 100 years of successful revolutionary practice and theory to the immensurate wisdom of your 'vibes-based analysis'. I'd suggest you go read desert and then kill yourself but I guess reading isn't your forte so like. idk live a long life and watch as your ideology does literally nothing, just like it's done literally nothing so far in history. btw the people's republic of china just reached peak greenhouse gas emissions and has been installing more green power than the rest of the world combined. it's weird you only learned the word 'han chinese' when the US started its "Pivot to Asia" and funneled billions of USD into "countering Chinese influence", but hey, no need to think about that when you know 'stalinists' are homophobes

[rexhistoria]

tbh i wish online marxist leninists would stop implying or saying most third world people who are left leaning are "tankies" by default. like guys there are trotskyists in cuba. i mean you dont have to agree with them but you should actually engage with their arguments instead of implying all of them are just first world petite bourgeois students

[druggonaut]

Revolutionary Communist Party

So I recently saw a newspaper stand in a town near me, they were there on a recruitment drive too. So I figured fuck it, and joined up. Yesterday I went to their weekly meeting.

Leftist organising is rare around here and at the very least I need a foot in the door.

This Trotskyist party splintered off from the Labour party after Kier Starmer ousted Jeremy Corbyn and started cracking down on the leftist side of the party. So they've branched out on their own and are currently recruiting like crazy. I'm swept up in this now.

They have an event in November called the Revolutionary Festival that is hosting 3 days of multiple overlapping talks ranging from US imperialism, Dialectical Materialism, Fascism and how to fight it, Bangladesh revolution and the Arab spring histories, World War 1 and it's radicalising effect on soldiers, History of the Labour party, Art and revolution, Ai and Consciousness and a bunch of others.

I'm going to go to it for at least one of the days I think, mostly for networking and learning more about them.

On Reddit they seem to be very divisive among leftist circles for being empirically anti Stalin and for seeming to be well funded. I know now that they reject donors and fund themselves from members and after going to and sitting in on a local branch meeting yesterday I have a better idea of who these guys are and what they're about.

Mostly consisting of University students and student union members but not entirely; the group focuses on theory and education above most else. Importantly they seem to understand that Post Revolution and Societal Building is as important as the vague concept of Revolution itself. A breathe of fresh air from the typical leftist group. ("Uh so now what" mentality when the revolution is successful).

I'll come back to this post soon, after the November "festival" and see if there's anything to add or change.

But so far I'm not seeing many red flags and am quite glad to see a well organised Communist group.

[thefugitivesaint]

''Harper's Radar'', #132, Feb. 1999 Source

This made me laugh. It's the moustache. No baby is that well groomed.

[socialismforall]

People keep asking me to respond to this Trotskyite RCA video about how Trump isn't a fascist, but I got 10 minutes in on double-speed and had to bail. Utter waste of time unless you're a devoted follower of Ted Grant. Trots strike again!

[birdmenmanga]

saw one of my con friends post a cease and desist in 3 languages on twitter because someone colored and reposted one of their artworks and all I could think was petit bourgeois behavior... I fear I need to get a real job I can't stay like this anymore. this + the reaction to the gh*bl* trend I think is really bringing out the worst of the online freelance artists...

[eiidolon]

just to add to the pile people post-panthers white house visit emphasizing that you cannot trust these guys. my philosophy is that you must always assume the worst when it comes to politics unfortunately. nine times out of ten Your Guy will fit on a sliding scale of "does not give a fuck" to "hates you and everything you stand for" and you HAVE TO BE AWARE OF THAT. its natural to be upset and annoyed but that is the way the world is. also if you want to jump and say "oh ___ would never!" in response to this then go do that but i promise you are setting yourself up for disappointment. just because some players espouse good ideas and support for good causes does not mean that they a. even necessarily believe it or b. care enough to stand for it when the time comes. to protect yourself you must assume every hockey is conservative until proven otherwise and you have to be ok with that

[oceanicmarxist]

A march by the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) in the 90s supporting East Timor and Cuba, in Newcastle, NSW.

[weepingwitch]

wild that the new Online trans woman kink is plant posadism

[apas-95]

the virgin maoist 'Mao Tse-tung's speech at Cheng-chow' versus the chad Marxist-Leninist 'Mao Zedong's speech at Zhengzhou'

[2percentsugar]

you have to pick

[milfbro]

ok so. do you like. commit to joining the trotskyists. how bad can that be for me.

I could take this as a "yes and" opportunity

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

We all know echo chambers exist and yet people on all parts of the political spectrum are still convinced that they represent the majority opinion because their highly tailored online circles agree with them.