I talked to them and they were pretty nice. Tried to sell me a newspaper though! But I expected them to do that.

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    Thank you for the explanation. I know very little of trotskyists mostly because it doesn’t make sense to me.

    Also why do they sell newspapers?

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      Nothing they said is serious or accurate. Maybe the newspaper thing, but Lenin sold newspapers too. No revolution has ever succeeded without counter - propaganda. Stalinists massacred Trotskyists in every instance mentioned and seized the editorial and propaganda apparatus developed by the trots, turning it into a mouthpiece of grasping bureaucrats.

      Sectarian MLs hate trotskyists so that they dont have to feel bad about the unjust mass murder of us in every instance mentioned. Its total projection.

      Edit: not all MLs are sectarians, but the ones who got their views from a podcast on Losurdo and uncritically parrot apologism are shameless and dangerous to our movements

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      why do they sell newspapers?

      It’s like an unwritten rule of Trotskyism. Every Trot org sells newspapers. I swear half those parties only exist to sell a newspaper. I think they only do it because it’s the only thing the Bolsheviks did that Trots are any good at. They say they’re less dogmatic than MLs and that a leftist group should never do anything they don’t understand their own reasons for just because Lenin told us to do it, but I think Trots only put out newspapers because Lenin said a communist party needs a party newspaper.


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