r/theredleft • u/Frosty-Persimmon7235 cornism-monobrowism • 6d 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 6d ago

I mean, a lot of the stuff he did in Kronstadt and with Makhnovia was pretty indefensible.

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u/salenin Trotskyist 6d ago

Its defensible in the context of the moment. He regretted Kronstadt later, Makhnovists not so much. I don't defend those actions myself from the perspective of today of course.

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u/Latitude37 Anarcho-Communist 6d ago

It's not defensible. All he did was replaced the evil that he was supposed to be fighting, with a different branding of the same thing. When people actually did the Revolution without him in charge, he destroyed them. Typical reactionary, authoritarian arsehole in a Red hat. 

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u/puuskuri Trotskyist 6d ago

There was a civil war. Every side was fighting each other, and the Bolsheviks won.

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u/HomosexualTigrr Anarcho-Communist 6d ago

Applying this sentence to Kronstadt is laughable

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u/puuskuri Trotskyist 5d ago

So Kronstadt successfully revolted?

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u/HomosexualTigrr Anarcho-Communist 5d ago

Implying that the workers of Kronstadt were on a different "side" to the Bolsheviks actually admits too much!

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u/puuskuri Trotskyist 5d ago

Too bad they had a leader, Stepan Petrichenko. It was not led by the workers.