Tankies

tankies,

would the USSR under trotsky not be superior?

considering stalin's continuous and excessive failures, i don't understand why you're not all trots already

it would have ended with all of europe teaming upp and invading Russia.
Communism would be as shunned among normies as nazism is today

I am not a tankie, but Trotsky was a complete idiot. His envisioned economic policy was virtually identical to Stalin's, so we'd still see all the death and destruction caused by it - no improvement there. Where he'd be a massive downgrade compared to Stalin would be his foreign policy, which was fucking stupid; whereas Stalin was wise enough to realize that the USSR was in a very precarious position and should lay low, Trotsky's doctrine of permanent revolution would have seen him actively intervening in other nations to prop up leftist causes. Considering how eager France and Britain were to steer Germany to the East even when the fairly isolationist Stalin was in charge, I imagine they'd be even more eager to throw Eastern Europe under the bus in order to get Germany to destroy an openly interventionist USSR. Trotsky might have seen himself the target of a grand anti-communist crusade, with the West swallowing the bitter pill of German preeminence in Europe to end this open threat to all capitalist states.

I don't think there would have been much of a difference tbh. neither of them were socialists, Perhaps Trotsky wouldn't have gone full pure mode of the army since he was head of the red army for years but he still would have been authoritarian as fuck and a state capitalist

i actually agree with this

Purge* mode

Where do you live that Communism is positively regarded?

Didn't Trotsky want to, while the Soviet Union was still not fully industrialized, want to invade India to destabilize capitalism via fucking with the British Empire?

No way. Preople in Britian and France didn't want a war, they felt pushed into war in 1939 as Hitler had pushed too far with Danzig. You know how much they gave up to Hitler right? Austria, re militarisation. re occupation of the Rhineland, firstly the Sudetenland and then the whole of Czechoslovakia. People didn't want another war after ww1, the USSR would likely be left alone by Britain and France

Fuck, that sentence is awful. I suppose you'll understand what I mean, anyway.

you aren't seen as a monster if your a communist. maybe people just see you as a bit "naive" or "missguided".
It just dosen't have the same stigma

This is true, but I am not suggesting they declare war. I am merely suggesting that if the USSR is actively intervening around the place and trying to stir up revolution, France and Britain might decide to just throw Poland under the bus also and start funding Germany's war against the communist menace, instead of attacking Germany to protect their own sphere of influence.

where the fuck is nazism seen as socially acceptable?

Trotsky would have given a lot more support to Spain I think. perhaps he would have tried agitation movements in France,which had a big communist following, and maybe to evoke the memory of Rosa in Germany throughout the 20s and 30s. It's hard to say if these efforts would be of any use and seen as a threat big enough to force such an anti war population into another gruelling war in a far away country for a cause they don't care about

Trotskyists fell for the great man theory meme

BUT user

THE FIFTY SIX GORRILLION

DIRTY COMMIE BETTER RED THAN DEAD

where the fuck are you, for real, crawl out from under your rock


america?

What nazbolfag said was right, at least outside of the butthurt belt and ameriblobland.

wew lad

lol are you delusional?

i am talking about real life


no i live here ffs, i can take a walk down to any number of the sixty fucking churches in town here, yell "GAS THE JEWS", and get "WHITE POWER" yelled back at me

do you live in the deep south?

and tankies don't with their veneration of daddy stalin

Not American, but communism is way more acceptable where I live than nazism

Anything is more acceptable than Nazism in most Western nations. That's the definition of faint praise. Most people still believe that Communism involves the murder of a hundred million people and will judge you accordingly.

No, he lives in his head.

Fuck off with your great man theory. That's not how it works.

The USSR would be superior under Comrade Riegin, you fucking revisionist.

lol lol lol