• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    madeline pendelton described trotskyism as effectively useless because they’ve never been successful historically and i guess i took that to mean that they were useless in general.

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      3 hours ago

      Trotskyism is often just Marxism-Leninism, but anti-AES for nonsense reasons IMO. Some Trotskyist critique of capitalism and imperialism is good still, and Hudson is one of the better ones, though not perfect by any stretch. Trotskyism isn’t a particularly coherent ideology at a theoretical level, and is mostly distinguished by what it opposes.