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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I honestly don’t think about trotskyism very much at all, but I will say I’ve always seen it as a sort of negative endorsement that Trotsky is among the more tolerated communist figures in US public education. What I mean is, when I was in public schools he was sometimes presented as “the good one” who meant well but was betrayed by the mean and scary ones.
So I figure, in US public education, schooling in the heart of capitalism, why is this guy in particular so conspicuously tolerated?