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  • oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    CW: also not left unity, sorta

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    Literally worse than anarchists though, Anarchists had Catalonia, Makhnovia, and Korean People’s Association in Manchuria (probably missing some). Trotskyists, however, just have a bunch of weak political parties. The neo-zapitsitas in Chiapas and the Kurds have Anarchism synthesized with some other beliefs. Where have trotskyists had a significant impact? How are they supposed to have a permanent revolution if they can’t even achieve any sort of revolution? (Trotsky was involved with the October Revolution, but that doesn’t really count)

    • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Trotskyism is "we would have done it better. we didn’t, but we could!?

      Trotskyists would be wise to stop calling themselves that. Trotsky was the opposition and there should be no joy in constantly being the opposition to revolutions that succeeded.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      This is a slight exaggeration, there were significant trot groups holding territory in China and Korea during the Japanese invasion. And of course POUM collaborated (though not really trots by that point.)

      • Vncredleader@hexbear.net
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        Can you give some specifics on the China and Korea thing? Korean liberation forces fought the Japanese in a few battles, but almost always in China, and I can’t find anything about a significant Trot group let alone one that held territory

        • Mardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.net
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          Ugh, so sorry, I was thinking about the Vietnamese Trots which did iirc take territory off the French.

          The Chinese one I found in a translated trove of documents about the KPAM where they mentioned Trots holding several villages in the North West, aided by Soviet Left Opposition emigres. Generally cordial relationship.

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            Oh yeah Ngo Van and his folks. It seems most of what they did was fight in Saigon and then be forced back, and early they had agitated a lot in villages during the 1930s though got cracked down on hard. They had a significant presence in the late 1930s though not in a military sense, but with strikes.