@SocraticEthics Hmm 🤔, despite #Lula ‘s willingness to welcome and not arrest #Putin in #Brazil at the 2024 #G20 , I’m sure he won’t attend.

#Trotsky was welcomed in #Mexico , but he wasn’t ‘arrested’ there! ☠️

ESSF is one of the left wing sources I value. I guess for understandably topical reasons, today they publish a piece by #Trotsky on #India & #Imperialism etc.

Always a good and clear writer, it makes for an interesting read. I'm not sure to what extent the analysis stands up to the events of 'history' since. But still..

https://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article67762

An Open Letter to the Workers of India

Leon Trotsky, Coyoacan, Mexico

July 25, 1939.

Today in Labor History July 8, 1898: May Picqueray was born. She was a French anarchist, trade unionist and pacifist, who published the pacifist, anti-militarist periodical Le Réfractaire from 1974 to 1983. In 1921, in response to the silence of the French press on the convictions of Sacco and Vanzetti, she sent a parcel bomb containing a defensive grenade and leaflets to the American embassy. Her efforts helped mobilize French journalists, without harming any people and only causing damage to material. In 1922, as a delegate of the Metalworkers union, she visited Moscow, where she climbed on a table full of Red Trade Union officials to denounce their having a luxurious banquet while the common people starved. She refused to shake hands with Trotsky because of his responsibility for crushing the Kronstadt rebellion, and his betrayal of Nestor Makhno. During the Spanish Civil War, she helped transport orphans out of the country. During World War II, she help people escape French concentration camps. She also was a participant in the French uprising of May 1968, participated in anti-nuclear campaigns and supported war resisters.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #MayPicqueray #pacifism #antiwar #CivilWar #ConcentrationCamp #union #organizer #feminism #Kronstadt #antinuke #NestorMakhno #trotsky #SaccoAndVanzetti

Titan sub vs. refugee trawler: how much is a human life worth?
https://www.marxist.com/titan-sub-vs-refugee-trawler-how-much-is-a-human-life-worth.htm
#Marxism #Revolution #1917 #Marx #Lenin #Trotsky

Brutal.

"Trotsky's own past and theories preclude on his part the initiation of a movement to the left of Stalinism and condemned 'Trotskyism' to remain a mere collecting agency for unsuccessful Bolsheviks. As such it could maintain itself outside of Russia because of the ceaseless competitive struggles for power and positions within the so-called 'communist' world-movement. But it could not achieve significance for it had nothing to offer but the replacement of one set of politicians by another. The Trotskyist defence of Russia in the Second World War was consistent with all the previous policies of this, Stalin's most bitter, but also most loyal, opposition."

- Paul Mattick, "Bolshevism and Stalinism," 1947.

#trotsky #trotskyism #marxism #communism #CommunistLeft #LeftCommunism

Today in Labor History June 4, 1919: Trotsky banned the 4th Ukrainian Congress of Free Soviets with his Order #1824. He also sent troops to destroy the Rosa Luxemburg Commune near Provkovski, and declared the Ukrainian anarchist insurgent Nestor Makhno an outlaw. The Free Territory within Ukraine, also known as Makhnovia (after Nestor Makhno) lasted from 1918 to 1921. It was a stateless, anarchist society and it was defended by Makhno’s Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army (AKA the Black Army). Roughly 7 million people lived in the area. The peasants who lived there refused to pay rent to the landowners and seized the estates and livestock of the church, state and private landowners, setting up local committees to manage them and share them among the various villages and communes of the Free State.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #ukraine #NestorMakhno #Revolution #soviet #communist #trotsky #insurrection #BlackArmy #peasant #commune

Todays tee....
#marx
#engels
#lenin
#trotsky

Cohn bendit en 1 phrase de #Trotsky

Ces #révolutionnaires qui n’en sont pas

#Mai68

#LaFabrique

"Victories always throw a new light upon the defeats which led up to them." - #Trotsky

RT @fulvioabbate
Solidarietà dal compagno Fulvio Abbate al compagno Nanni Moretti insultato da orrendi stalinisti. Viva Trotsky! Viva la Quarta Internazionale! #nannimoretti #Trotsky #stalinisti. @MarcoLodola1

@pythagore

I dislike all governments. But I like how the French respond to the fuckery of their leaders.

In Britain, we just mutter a bit and then put Love Island back on.

BUT as a good #commie, I don't blame the British people, I blame the lack great leadership, most prominently from Starmer and his Blairites.

But #Trotsky said this better than me: "The world political situation as a whole is chiefly characterized by a historical crisis of the leadership of the proletariat."

RT @fulvioabbate
A proposito di "Il sol dell'avvenire" di Nanni Moretti e soprattutto di Trotsky fissato con la fica. Non ci credi? Leggi.#nannimoretti #Trotsky #IlSolDellAvvenire #Moretti @tusselpuff @bobocraxi #fulvioabbate #amichettismo https://mowmag.com/culture/nanni-moretti-e-il-sol-dell-amichettismo-spoiler-il-socialismo-non-ha-trionfato

Ojalá una #serie tipo The Crown o Cuéntame, pero con mirada marxista :comrade: contando la historia del bloque socialista/soviético, un poco del fin de los zares y #Marx, revolución del 17 con #lenin, la #URSS, #stalin y dictadura, #trotsky, la purga, ayuda para ganar la guerra mundial, guerra fría, aquí ya me pierdo, creo que Nikita, hasta Gorvachov, perestroika y caída, hasta Yeltsin.

Me ha costado ordenar todo esto un rato, me faltan referentes de cultura pop

#seriestv #series #theCrown

Begun reading #Chokepoint #Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and @pluralistic and it's interesting to see a very identifiable political thread in its blurb people- Adam Conover, Lawrence Lessig, Zephyr Teachout, Jimmy Wales.

These people, who I would, personally, characterize as left-liberals much of the time, provide an interesting anchor point in the political and economic movement for #socialjustice. Some of them have gained an amount of reach and are viewed as experts or at the very least accessible communicators.

In the introduction we see a point of tension in the dialectic between "the minimum demand" (mild, almost performative reform) and "the maximum demand" (#revolution from the root to a different system). #Trotsky is known for the transitional program, but *Reform and Revolution* by #Luxemburg, a bunch of #Kautsky. It's a very long current in the camp of people that want to replace the relations of society and production.

Fascists obviously have used critiques of capitalism in order to gain a political audience, but Germany during the Third Reich reminds one a lot of the kind of incestuous relationship of dominant industry and the political elite.

The question is basically, can what is in many ways a deep overhaul of the #administrative state, something everyone thinks of when they think of Sen. Elizabeth #Warren, really possible? There has to be enough "democracy in the system" to get to the end point, and the US in particular has both issues of #federalism and a federal judiciary that despises the administrative state. Also changes such as relate to monopoly, monopsony, and competition, may in some cases lack what I think is the core way that #reformism can be built upon- stickiness.

I mean essentially that universal benefit programs, well funded, are the most difficult to reverse from the free-market right. They have a very large supportive population that melds the poor, working class, and aspects of the petty bourgeoisie and professionals together in common interests.

Targeting, as is done in neoliberalism, creates inter-class conflict among those not in the elite, and can be stoked additionally by #race, #citizenship, and other factors. Neoliberalism by design when it does #welfare makes programs extremely brittle and easy to defund.

So even though the Tories have had two decade and a half long reigns in power since 1979, and Tony Blair was thoroughly a center-right New Labour PM, the #NHS has stubbornly stuck around even in its crisis state. It has resiliency.

But having enough #democracy in the system is difficult. We can look at Castillo in #Peru and #Boric in Chile, who both rode into power promising a fundamentally new, inclusive, and anti-neoliberal constitution. Actually getting through entrenched power structures, a right-wing #media apparatus, and the eternal riddle of many aspects of a #constitution being popular but at a referendum it adds up to less.

The phrase "#Chile will be the tomb of #neoliberalism imagines an end to neoliberalism- #AMLO talks about this a lot whatever you might think of his time in power. But how do you get over the hump? How do you dispatch it, and make sure it doesn't return? How do you hold sustained power so the capitalists can't just reverse all that can be done? How can genuine democracy and social justice come to fruition?

I don't have a lot of answers, but I appreciate how much was sparked just in the introduction of Chokepoint Capitalism

#wikipedia #socialism #leftwing #progressive

Le 28 février 1921 débute la "Revolte des marins de Kronstadt" contre la dictature bolchévique.
Ils seront massacrés deux semaines plus tard par l'Armée rouge, sur ordre de Trotsky.

Emma Goldmann: "Trotsky proteste beaucoup trop"

https://fr.theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-trotsky-proteste-beaucoup-trop

#Kronstadt
#Trotsky
#EmmaGoldmann

What a gem! A deck of left wing radical playing cards from the old FRG designed by Henner Drescher and FK Waechter & published by Verlag Neue Kritik.

#fkwaechter #neuekritik #angeladavis #maozedong #durruti #trotsky

http://www.fightbacknews.org/2023/1/31/against-trotskyism-trotsky-vs-lenin

The Trotskyites always paint #Trotsky as the true inheritor of the revolutionary legacy of #Lenin. This is pure opportunism. They see the tremendous respect and admiration for Lenin that is held by working and oppressed people all over the world, and seek to gain some of that respectability simply by association. They say Trotsky was Lenin’s true heir and comrade-in-arms, and that Stalin and the USSR betrayed Leninism.

>but there's little sense of fitting in a larger frame or context with some things (ofc?).

In other things, having just seen Mission Impossible 4s again, it's stunning how well #MichaelNyqvist could have played #Trotsky as well.

Other things lost on top. 😔

#BLOG 💬 «Qu’est-ce que le national-socialisme?» Relire #Trotsky 90 ans après 1933

✏️ ROBI MORDER | En accès libre › https://blogs.mediapart.fr/robi-morder/blog/280123/qu-est-ce-que-le-national-socialisme-relire-trotsky-90-ans-apres-1933

https://www.fightbacknews.org/2023/1/22/against-trotskyism-what-trotskyism

#Trotskyism has been one of the most persistent and damaging opportunist ideological opponents of #Marxism-#Leninism within the left. In the next several articles, we’re going to look at the origin and development of this ideology, what it is and what it seeks to accomplish. But first, who was #Trotsky, and what is Trotskyism?