Message from @quiscalus
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yo why is the left always seem to be punching left and be so cannibalistic?
like what went down in the spanish civil war not saying the "republicans" were going to win but the infighting kind of handed victory to Franco
@quiscalus Some of what Trotsky theorized was decent, but a lot of it was just idealistic nonsense that had no basis in reality.
Anarchists hate Trots because of ukraine and Kronstadt
Also how they view the USSR
I will admit that he was a brilliant writer though.
Goddamnit myi nternet is shit
How is it idealistic
yeah I heard about the black army and them being crushed by him and the russsian state
But definitely a sub-par theoretician. Certainly not anywhere near as good as say Mao, for example.
how do I type lol
like at the city I live in some 19yo SJW anarchists wanted a professor removed for being racist because he thought your shouldn't judge people on the basis of race
Idk anarchists are spergs
like they took over the school but because they are 19yos with no real weapons or combat experience they eventually gave up
@olev A lot of it is just the result of fallacious reasoning and mental masturbation not borne out of a factual analysis of material conditions.
You're just rewording what you said before, and not explaning how
"Permanent Revolution" is an absolute joke to say the least.
I am far from well versed on leftism but isn't it mainly making sure workers and people have self determination and increasing their material conditions?
Well permanent revolution is sort of 2 things
First, to put it simply
I am personally a persona skeptical of successful revolution in wealthy western democratic nations especially with strong standing armies
Is that in feudal countries like Russia, the bourgeoisie are not able to carry out the tasks of the bourgeois-democratic revolution
So the proletariat and peasantry needed to unite to complete the tasks of the bourgeois-democratic revolution, and then carry it further to a socialist revolution
I know what Permanent Revolution is. I'm intimately familiar with Trotskyism. Allow me to clarify.
I'm explaining it to the other guy
Ah, okay.
ok cool sorry
So this part of the theory was in contrast to the stageist theory, that the bourgeois-democratic revolution had to happen first and advance capitalism before a socialist revolution
I'm pretty sure it was orthodox marxists that held the stageist position
sorry to be asking questions as you explain stuff but what is bourgeois-democratic revolution?
Abolishing the monarchy/feudalistic system
ok
cool
Like the american revolution and french revolution
So this was literally what happened in Russia in 1917
The proletariat carried out the tasks of the bourgeois-democratic revolution, and it was also a socialist revolution
I heard dr wolff talk about this people trying to move from feudal societies to capitalism
The other part is that revolution cannot remain isolated, and must spread
And that socialism cannot be achieved in one country, and if it remains isolated then a bureaucracy arises
And then it will inevitably revert back to capitalism
Well, it's not difficult to see how Permanent Revolution would inevitably lead to imperialist-nation-chauvinism, the pernicious effects of which would deal a heavy blow to the international communist movement. With its focus on the essentiality and leading role of the proletariat in the capitalo-imperialist nations, it downplays the importance of anti-imperialist struggles and working-class movements in the periphery. It elevates those in the core beyond their actual significance.