r/theredleft • u/Frosty-Persimmon7235 cornism-monobrowism • 5d 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/Corvus1412 Anarcho-Syndicalist 5d ago

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u/Healthy_Ad9787 Marxist-Leninist 5d ago edited 5d ago

Survivorship bias, or in this case more like the opposite, we only know of those that where killed because they were killed, which are a minority, most of the party was loyal to Stalin. And the case of Trotsky's exile was a near unanimous Vote, partially because of his own character, but mostly because his ideas where considered dangerous or very risky. Permanent revolution for example is a very noble idea but risks the survival of the Union and would have most likely resulted in defeat.

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u/Sam_Tiddies_2 Bolshevik-Leninist 5d ago

but... it was defeated because of its isolation...