Because they always cry about "red fascism" and are staunchly anti authoritarianism, even though Trotsky was authoritarian until he didn't win the power struggle and so he started crying and whining about "Stalinism."(which isn't a real thing because Stalin didn't actually contribute to Marxism in the way others did. He was a Leninist.) They also seem to have an issue with literally ever AES country and it's revolution, yet they have no actual idea on how to achieve revolution in a different way.

[–] trot@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

casually making up a "trotskyist" to get mad at

they always cry about "red fascism"

No, in fact Trotsky condemned the abuse of the term "fascism" (see: "social fascism")

and are staunchly anti authoritarianism

Trotskyists have read Engels.

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No, in fact Trotsky condemned the abuse of the term "fascism" (see: "social fascism")

They are addressing modern Trotskyists, not Trotsky himself. Did you miss that point or are you intentionally obfuscating it?

[–] trot@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What point is there to make?

This applies equally little to "modern Trotskyists", and claiming anything to the contrary betrays a distinct lack of investigation with an overabundance of speaking.

Verification is trivial: pick your favourite trot website and look up "red fascism".

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This depends very much on the flavour of Trot, I've found. There's not a lot of overlap between more Orthodox groups like the Sparts and, say, Cliffite splinters who are often completely divorced from much of Trotsky's theoretical positions.

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