I see and hear from communists an anger towards Trotskyism. Can someone from an anti-Trotskyist position explain the reasons to avoid Trotskyism.

  • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The important historical reason is that Trotskyism is opposed to the worker-peasant alliance. That’s an untenable position now given the events that happened after Trotsky (in Vietnam, China, etc)

    The leftist squabble reason is that Stalinists and people aligned with them are mad at Trotskyists opposing them.

    https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/QQ9O5UPqcOE

    • squid_slime@lemm.eeOPMEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I appreciate your explanation. which had me reading one of Trosky’s writings

      that goes over his thoughts of the Chinese revolution and of which i find somewhat valid but the snipping in this spoiler also preemptively defending his position.

      We must turn to all the members of the official Communist Party with words of explanation and challenge. It is quite probable that the rank-and-file Communists who have been led astray by the Stalinist faction will not understand us at once. The bureaucrats will set up a howl about our “underestimation” of the peasantry, perhaps even about our “hostility” to the peasantry. (Chernov always accused Lenin of being hostile to the peasantry.) Naturally such howling will not confuse the Bolshevik-Leninists. When prior to April 1927 we warned against the inevitable coup d’état of Chiang Kai-shek, the Stalinists accused us of hostility to the Chinese national revolution. Events have demonstrated who was right. Events will provide a confirmation this time as well.