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What Is The Deal With Trotskyism And Maoism? (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by asdasd201@lemmygrad.ml to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11136332

Edit: I'm from the Global South, I should've clarified that on the post. The lesson has been learned.

Many leftist movements, legit or not, call themselves either Trotskyist or Maoist and keep dissing Stalin for his “socialism in one state” policy and “ruining” Comintern and Deng Xiaoping for his “liberal” policies.

I want to know what they are trying to do by distancing themselves from the USSR and PRC while fetishizing Cuba and Vietnam—you’ll only hear them talking about the Vietnam War, btw—and following either the guy who lost the power struggle or a literal Marxist-Leninist who supported one of the refused countries and founding the other.

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[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't think trots and maoists are that comparable. First of all, see how many trots tend to hate Mao for being himself a "Stalinist" in their estimation, and also hate basically any socialist project that controlled a state except a very brief period in the USSR. I don't think that considering modern China revisionist, even if you disagree with that estimation, is on the level of ridiculous historical revisionism that trots engage in.

[–] zedcell@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Both groups end up coming to the same revisionist conclusions just by taking different routes. In action they come out being broadly the same.

[–] asdasd201@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Trots and MLMs are two major factions in my country, so I bundled them together instead of asking two questions.