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Question for the MLs - why do we dislike Trots so much? (hexbear.net)
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I met some who were very nice, seemed very rational, didn't even come off as "culty" as their particular Trot party is "known" to be. I mean, yeah, ideologically they're not quite right, but like, more people working against capitalism, who at least understand and agree with what Lenin said, is a good thing, right? Sectarianism is silly and left unity between Marxist tendencies is important to get to the point of revolution and then sorting out our differences, right?

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[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wasn't there a considerable overlap between the approach of Trotsky to revolutionary strategy and that of Chen Duxiu? I'm not an expert on how much the one influenced the other or how much they converged independently, though.

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I don't know enough about Chen Duxiu to say anything there. But the CPC of the 1930s sided firmly with Stalin, and implemented the same socialism in one country policies, that Trotskyists reject in favor of "permanent revolution" / military expansionism.

They also rejected one of the core tenets of Trotskyist thought: that a peasant country cannot lead and sustain a revolution.