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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  • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I wrote an excessively long comment before, so let me try again:

    Motivated reasoning. In my experience, they have a terrible habit of requiring certain conclusions and (usually unconsciously, I think) working backwards from there to tell you why their guy is great and everyone else is bad. It’s really cartoonish and frequently leads them to complete dead ends when challenged, but that doesn’t seem to ever matter.

    And as an aside from my first try:

    There is no “we” in this question. If you don’t know why I hate trots, then it is not a reason that you hate trots. It is critically important to be able to separate your assessments from the assessments of others, even those you respect (by which I don’t mean myself but whoever you might hope to get an answer from here), and to be very clear on this so that others don’t fall into the habit of conflating the two either.