Trot Watcher I am happy to announce that I have started lessons with a classical singing teacher through the Royal College of Music. I had my first lesson yesterday evening singing Gute Nacht from Schubert’s Winterreise. To start therapy and classical singing lessons in the same month has been a boon for my mental health, to say … Read more
Trotskyist cults are destiny-destroyers. At their most benign, they are destiny diverters, destiny derailers. Ultimately, I am convinced that the IMT has not been able to derail me completely from my ultimate destination. As Nietzsche, inspired by the Greek poet Pindar, once counselled, I am now on my way to becoming what I am – … Read more
Yesterday, I finished Ali Millar’s harrowing and brilliantly-written review of her time as an Jehovah’s Witness, The Last Days. I’ve wanted to read it ever since it came out in the summer, and I’m glad that I’ve finally got round to it. Reading about the experiences of other people who have been in cults has … Read more
For the New Year—I still live, I still think; I must still live, for I must still think. Sum, ergo cogito: cogito, ergo sum. To-day everyone takes the liberty of expressing his wish and his favorite thought: well, I also mean to tell what I have wished for myself today, and what thought first crossed my … Read more
This blog has been in existence for two years already. I can hardly believe it. It is as if only yesterday I was resigning from the IMT and breaking free of two and a half years of tyranny. I have already been out of the organisation longer than I was ever in it. And yet, … Read more
Though it was not literally true, as was facetiously charged against him by public unbelievers, that he called aloud to his fellow-creatures: “Curse your souls and bodies, come here and be blessed!” still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine. You were to abolish … Read more
I was just telling a Facebook friend and former IMT member yesterday that it would not surprise me if the organisation came out denouncing the deposition of Pedro Castillo of Peru as an ‘imperialist coup’, despite the utter disaster his tenure has been, such that his own party has abandoned him. After a failed attempt … Read more
I have recently discovered the genius of Gustav Mahler and other great classical composers. Listening to their music on a regular basis has really helped me in my psychological and spiritual recovery from cultism. Trotsky, despite his greater appreciation for art than Lenin, was still ultimately a philistine who judged art by its relationship to … Read more
‘The imperialist propaganda machine insists that Putin has failed in his objective, and that the Russian army’s advance has been halted by the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian army. …Ultimately, it is the balance of forces that will determine the outcome. And that is overwhelmingly in favour of Russia. Far from retreating, everything points to … Read more
Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. -Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce I recently opened a new YouTube channel where I will … Read more