Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Leon Trotsky - Stalin's Arch Enemy Documentary" video.

@ianwatson5605 The working class has no saviors but itself. Trotsky gave his life for the cause of the working class. He speaks to and for me.
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Trotsky's writings are still published by Pathfinder Press.
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That's a lie. Kaplan was an SR and shot by the Cheka and Lenin left a "Testament" where he wanted Stalin removed from his post as General Secretary.
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@stanislav7920 Not only was Trotsky a revolutionary leader but an important Marxist theorist. He considered his activity after deportation to be just as important as his role in the revolution. Stalin was the leader of defeats right up to the outbreak of War with Hitler and German Imperialism. Stalin is still better known than Trotsky in the United States because he is the object of so much anti communist hysteria.
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@stanislav7920 I don't see how we have ever left the Imperialist stage of history. Trotsky wanted global socialist revolution. Isn't that the natural conclusion that any real Marxist must come to for after the end of capitalism which always develops in different countries by nation states that then trade on a world market. Socialist revolution should spread across the world. To defend the USSR you must be a revolutionary in your own nation state otherwise you are just a diplomat for the Soviet Union. Lenin and Trotsky viewed the Soviet Union and Soviet Republics as holding actions not a new country that would engage in any long term peaceful coexistence with the capitalist powers. That's why the looked to destroy the Imperialist relationship in the Imperialists own colonies. I think its is obvious to all that Stalin's theory failed. Stalin's decision to use the Communist International as a cheer squad for Democratic Imperialism during the second world war was just as treacherous as the Rightist Social Democracy in the first world war then Lenin had so thoroughly exposed as political bankrupt in the Imperialist era. You can find Trotsky at Pathfinder Press.
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Trotsky is more alive today as Stalin and Mao fade into their graves.
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@jamesfahy3963 He had the job of organizing the Red Army and defeating 14 Imperialist Armies who invaded the new Soviet Republic including the US/UK.
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@louisecorchevolle9241 The Soviets were councils of workers, soldiers and peasants. The provisional government was just that provisional. A situation of dual power. Not a coup.
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@stanislav7920 You haven't read any of Trotsky's criticism of The Communist International after Lenin. The Wiemar Republic where the largest party in the Communist International went down to defeat because of Stalin's policy of equating the Social Democratic workers with the fascists calling them Social fascists. Then the swing from the ultra left to the right with the popular fronts that included the bourgeois liberals who paved the way for fascism. This is how Stalin ended up supporting the Democratic Imperialist after the non aggression pact with Hitler failed. Stalin got a lot of good bourgeois press until the Democratic Imperialist had no more need for him after the defeat of Germany and Japan.
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@juliogarcia7670 We still publish The Militant and Trotsky's Collected Works at Pathfinder Press.
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@tajmajal4197 Fourteen Imperialist armies along with czarist troops wage a war against the new Socialist Republic including the US/UK. Any war waged to defend the working class and poor farmers is a just war against the armies of the property owners.
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He didn't break in he became acquainted with Trotsky through a female comrade.
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Never happened in Cuba.
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@EmpowerSportsMagazine We still publish The Militant and Trotsky's works. Pathfinder Press.
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@weirdshibainu The American Stalinist were strike breakers during the Second Imperialist War. When the war was over they declared the end of the class struggle and permanent victory of the Soviet union. In a few years they'd be doing 5 year stretches in the federal Pen. Trotsky said the Stalin was incapable of abstract thought.
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The American Bourgeois Democratic Police show no such pacifism. Peace Prizes go to such US Imperialist Bourgeois war mongers like Henry Kissinger and Barak Obama. Le Duc Tho to his ever lasting credit never accepted his from the Democratic Socialist "Imperialist" Norway.
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Cardboard casket We will bury you!!! Trotsky paper The Militant is still published plus we've been openly in Cuba and selling books by Trotsky in Cuba.
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That would be nice if only the capitalists didn't send fascist bands to defeat the trade unions.
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@MoCsomeone You have to have a workers state after the revolution to defend the gains from the capitalist states and fascist bandits. Lenin is most noted for his concept of a disciplined party of worker bolsheviks, his analysis of Imperialism, and his ideas of national self determination for the colonial nations.
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@helenegan1079 Just more slanders and bullshit.
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@cyborgchicken3502 That's not true since he left behind the nucleus of a second Bolshevik party in the US (Socialist Workers Party) that overtook the Stalinist CP and Fidel Castro along with Che Guevara lead the Cuban revolution that did NOT take a course of Stalinist murder purges and continues today. .
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@MoCsomeone The Stalinist's became a consevative bureaucratic murder machine ruling over the Soviet Workers State. Cuba never had the purges or forced collectivization. If the working class doesn't develop a leadership before a revolution breaks out than the revolutionary tide will decline and capitalism or even worse fascism will win the day. The stakes are high as Capitalism's decline drives the class struggle and the ruling class will discard Bourgeois Democracy for fascism.
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@miniflem1 The Militant is still published Today.
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