we cannot simply condemn him for everything

Newcomer? I have been for awhile

he did do some good things

like be a good strategist

and help lead the red army

then again, stalin did do some stuff too

Hmm

he was basically a smaller version of trotsky, but in the caucasian front

he took tsaritsin

Like kill people that disagreed with him

deport ethnic minorities

exploitation and manipulation to secure power

Purging the soviets

Basically, Stalin is not a cool guy

ect. ec.t ect.

is anyone here for left unity?

Depends with who

And for what

In the case of revolution, no

If it's against reactionaries then yes

Agreed

but full left unity?

Not gonna happen

damn that's rough

Anarchists won't unify with anyone, tankies won't unify with anyone

Tankies hate everyone else, everyone else hates tankies

i got this party in serbia where we have demsocs, tanks, trots and ancoms all with full left unity

Maybe we can unify trots and leftcoms though

Could happen

leftcoms are the best meme of the century tbh

Trotsky predicted that revolution, when isolated, would inevitably become a bureaucracy

This is because backwards places like Russia lack the productive forces

And a bureaucracy arises from this

wait i gotta get my trot bingo card out

```Soviet America will not have to imitate our bureaucratic methods. Among us the lack of the bare necessities has caused an intense scramble for an extra loaf of bread, an extra yard of cloth by everyone. In this struggle our bureaucracy steps forward as a conciliator, as an all-powerful court of arbitration. You, on the other hand, are much wealthier and would have little difficulty in supplying all of your people with all of the necessities of life. Moreover, your needs, tastes and habits would never permit your bureaucracy to divide the national income. Instead, when you organize your society to produce for human needs rather than private profits, your entire population will group itself around new trends and groups, which will struggle with one another and prevent an overweening bureaucracy from imposing itself upon them.```

@Scorpion found your bingo card yet?

Also

trying to

i have a lot of shit on my shelf

Ho Chi Minh killed the Trotskyists that were involved with the August revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotskyism_in_Vietnam