Trot Watcher

Romantic individualist, free-thinker and aspiring singer and writer.

Trotsky’s False Predictions

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They say that insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results. If this is the case, then insanity, thy name is Trotskyism. For eighty years straight, the Trotskyist movement has been advancing the same basic ideas, slogans and tactics unchanged. The dozens of Trotskyist sects in existence have convinced themselves … Read more

The Question of the Workers’ State

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The major dividing line within the Trotskyist tradition is the question of whether or not the USSR should be seen as a workers’ state. The split happened definitively in 1940, with the orthodox Trotskyists remaining loyal to Trotsky’s conception that the USSR was a workers’ state, and the heterodox Trotskyists labelling it state capitalist instead. … Read more

In Praise of Renegacy

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Yup. That’s right. I’m a renegade. I have deserted the path of righteousness. I have abandoned the teachings of Saint Trotsky. I have turned my back on the one true road to revolution. I have become that dreaded thing. An ex-Trotskyist. And I have to tell you, it feels great. A burden has been lifted … Read more