What is to be done about trots?
I work with them because rather a trot than a liberal, but almost all the marxists I know (I live in the UK) are trots, and our biggest newspaper is Socialist Appeal. Lots of these people are entry-level marxists, but I dont know how being a trot became the mainstream socialist choice, and I hate it tbh.
Wince
You're just as ridiculous as they are for worrying about what flavor of ideological dick they prefer to suck.
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Introduce all trots to the immortal dialectical science of Juan Posadas Thought. Posadism is the logical conclusion to Trotskyism and is the highest evolved form of Communist thought.
probably because they go out and talk with people and don't alienate them immediately by sucking off papa stalin
Partly because many people see Trotskyism as a way to be a socialist while rejecting and washing their hands of the historical baggage of much of the socialist movement. This is particularly true of "third camp" Trots who entirely opposed all ostensibly socialist states, though it doesn't really jive with what is considered "Orthodox Trotskyism" which generally considers these states to be degenerated/deformed workers states and worthy of defending against imperialist predations. A lot of modern Trots are the sort of people Trotsky would have had shot during the civil war tbh.
If you want to make an appeal to respectability why don’t we quit jacking off all 20th century Russian red fashists
Back to /anarcho/with you!
Besides which most British 'Trots' don't even know/care they're trots and certainly don't subscribe to 'Orthodox Trotskyism' as points out.
Same thing to be done to anyone still calling themselves a communist: abandon the label and invent a new one, with new aesthetics and the same ideas worded differently. Regardless of its real and/or original meaning, it's now toxic. Proclaiming yourself a proud pederast in Ancient Greece would evoke nothing more than a "well duh", but doing so now, well, you get my meaning. Symbols' meanings change both according to space and time.