trot [he/him]

Mao, being a true adherent of Socialism in One Country, knew: there can only be one.

Old guy, see: every post-Sino-Soviet split Maoist

to be fair the take itself does not imply supporting Ukraine, just that it’s silly to believe the war will ever lead to any “denazification” at all, and to be all SMO ZOV GOIDA 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺 because of it.

In contrast, I love Maoists and MLs so much, they never ever ever ever fail at any of the above.

the new user has sent a nonsense, probably accidental report on a post! All gather in the town square for the public execution

RCP can’t stop winning just because CPB keeps embarrassing themselves on their own

Yes, but this is just the Canadian section.

That’s the point. “Unrealistic” demands that everyone agrees with yet which cannot be achieved under capitalism are good and should be made more often.

Because unlike the dumb trots, MLs and MLMs definitely always have the correct party line on everything, especially the less members they have and the more generally obscure they are, am I right?

In fact, this is why you can just choose any ML or MLM party you want, no matter how small, and engage with just that one party’s line, because they are actually all equally correct! For example, let’s say the Italian PMLI, who… support sending weapons to Ukraine?

Uh-oh, not a good look for the Stalinists!

For context - Trotsky’s own position on the Sino-Japanese War was far more reasonable:

We do not and never have put all wars on the same plane. Marx and Engels supported the revolutionary struggle of the Irish against Great Britain, of the Poles against the tsar, even though in these two nationalist wars the leaders were, for the most part, members of the bourgeoisie and even at times of the feudal aristocracy…In the Far East we have a classic example. China is a semicolonial country which Japan is transforming, under our very eyes, into a colonial country. Japan’s struggle is imperialist and reactionary. China’s struggle is emancipatory and progressive…

But Chiang Kai-shek? We need have no illusions about Chiang Kai-shek, his party, or the whole ruling class of China, just as Marx and Engels had no illusions about the ruling classes of Ireland and Poland. Chiang Kai-shek is the executioner of the Chinese workers and peasants. But today he is forced, despite himself, to struggle against Japan for the remainder of the independence of China. Tomorrow he may again betray. It is possible. It is probable. It is even inevitable. But today he is struggling…

But can Chiang Kai-shek assure the victory? I do not believe so. It is he, however, who began the war and who today directs it. To be able to replace him it is necessary to gain decisive influence among the proletariat and in the army, and to do this it is necessary not to remain suspended in the air but to place oneself in the midst of the struggle. We must win influence and prestige in the military struggle against the foreign invasion and in the political struggle against the weaknesses, the deficiencies, and the internal betrayal."

(Leon Trotsky, On the Sino-Japanese War, 1937)

Note the conclusion of “We must win influence and prestige in the military struggle against the foreign invasion and the political struggle against the weaknesses, the deficiencies, and the internal betrayal” - even if skeptical in the KMT being a reliable ally, completely the opposite of “never collaborating with the bourgeois KMT government”, and definitely not advocating for taking up arms against the KMT yet.

So, why did the Chinese Trotskyists have a different, incorrect position? Because they were already getting violently purged for years with the help of the KMT out of reasons initially completely unrelated to the Sino-Japanese war. They were already a fringe, beheaded tendency in China, their leaders imprisoned or dead, which is why their positions deformed in this way, and not because they were dirty Trots who just want defeat for all communism. But they sure did make a convenient bogeyman nevertheless.

half of Russian communists do too, guess the Western propaganda got them as well

Also The Moscow Times despite claiming to be Russian is online published from the Netherlands. Yeah that is about as legitimate as Putin launching a Russian version of NYT lol.

Here is a Russian source if that is a problem, saying more or less the same thing: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6480674

when the cat sells you a newspaper

quit job as gulag supervisor to become pit supervisor

first day on the job, go down to the pit

it’s a gulag

∫ ex dx

sloppy notation smh

I thought the trots were supposed to be the splitters?

CPB, Communist Party of Canada, CPUSA etc. openly support stopping at a “two-state solution” according to the 1967 borders (note: only the last article is older than a month)

I sleep

Canadian branch of the IMT posts cringe 14 years ago, said cringe being hardly representative of the rest of the IMT’s articles on Palestine

Kill all trots immediately

Isimaginary, even

:konstantin-syomin-shining:

This is what I came up with:

Suppose we have a train with a light on each end. The lights flash simultaneously when they are both at an equal distance from some stationary observer. From the reference frame of the train, the flashes of light must reach the observer at different times, so from the reference frame of the observer the flashes of light must occur at different times.