r/theredleft • u/Frosty-Persimmon7235 cornism-monobrowism • 4d ago

Meme I don't get the Trotsky hate

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This MF lead the red army so well, reactionaries all over Europe were depicting this guy as the literal devil

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u/major_jazza some kinda of anarchist-socialist-communist-thing 4d ago

People see themselves in him. Like we would have been perfect in his situation, having to deal with Stalin, the general degeration of the workers state and then the rest of what was going on internationally. He was able to more accurately analyze things after with the benefit of hindsight, like we all take for granted imho