Comments by "Geeky Radical" (@geekyradical4985) on "Leon Trotsky: Communism's True Believer" video.

You're a fascist
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The Fourth International has already outlived all the others. It'll be here long after we're both gone! The roots are strong and the tree will survive
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For everyone out there in the comments who claims that the October Revolution was pointless since it resulted in Stalinism, you might as well say the abolition of slavery was pointless since it didn't get rid of every single form of oppression. Through the October Revolution, Lenin, Trotsky and the Bolsheviks paved the way for the creation of the world's first workers' state. Annihilating illiteracy, raising life expectancy and the advances in science and gender equality are only soms of the many amazing results of the Bolshevik Revolution. And this might never have happened if Trotsky hadn't led the Red Army to victory and crushed the White Army. As Trotsky himself stated in his book, 'Revolution Betrayed': "Even if the Soviet Union, as a result of internal difficulties, external blows and the mistakes of leadership, were to collapse - which we firmly hope will not happen - there would remain an earnest of the future this indestructible fact, that thanks solely to a proletarian revolution, a backwards country has achieved in less than ten years successes unexampled in history."
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Take your fascist conspiracy theories elsewhere. If you manage to get your head out of your anti-semitic echo chamber, it might interest you to know that Leon Trotsky was not a Zionist. In fact, he explicitly described Zionism as "incapable of solving the Jewish question".
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Communism will win, whether you like it or not
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@SeattlePioneer The point is Trotsky was an extremely skilled organiser and military leader. Again, you're talking about the guy who hammered the Whites in the civil war and commanded the assault on the Winter Palace in the October Revolution. Your description of him as just Lenin's 'minion' is not very accurate. Trotsky proved himself to be a brilliant strategist and a dedicated revolutionary in his own right.
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@sasho_b. Pretty good points there. Yeah, I actually agree that Joseph Stalin is very likely hated more since he remained in power and lived for so long, while Trotsky died so early. It is worth noting, though, that, during the 1920s, after the revolution and civil war, Trotsky was reviled and obsessed over by the western powers nearly as much as Lenin, having been the commander of the Red Army who had overseen the defeat of the Whites and the invading imperialist armies. Winston Churchill and Joseph Goebbels even fixated on Trotsky's Jewish background as supposed evidence that communism was an international Jewish conspiracy. To my understanding, western anti-communists at the time saw Trotsky very much like they would later see Stalin decades later. Now, though, I think it's likely that the folks nowadays who say good things about Trotsky despite not being communists themselves simply are not very literate. I mean, if they don't think communism is good, why are they praising someone who defended Soviet Russia in its infancy from counter-revolution and imperialist attack?
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@sasho_b. Regardless, I was shocked by the number of anti-semitic and anti-communists comments on this video saying stuff like: "Always the Jews advocating for communism". I think that shows quite clearly that the anti-communists are still fixating on Trotsky to support their theory of 'Judeo-Bolshevism', very much like the Nazis. It shows that the anti-communists who know what Trotsky actually stood for still despise him.
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Yep. Although luckily, Stalin still industrialised the USSR (despite condemning the idea when Trotsky advocated for it) and the Red Army under Stalin was still able to resist the Nazi invasion.
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@william crow The communist society, envisioned by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels shouldn't be labelled as "evil", or defined by Leninist states like the Soviet Union which was nationalized rather than socialized.
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He said that?
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I'm pretty sure that Trotsky firmly opposed Stalin's totalitarianism and corruption of the communist vision. He was ruthless when it came to achieving the revolution, but he definitely wouldn't have approved of Stalin's paranoid purges in its aftermath. Communism and socialism's rejection of religious service, as well as nationalism is understandable, due to their potential to blind people and spread distrust.
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@pappycool Lenin was indeed a dictator and a corrupt communist leader, but wasn't responsible for nearly as many deaths as Stalin and to my knowledge most of them were during times of conflict. Trotsky was Lenin's ally. He initially opposed his violent methods of achieving change, but ended supporting him for a communist society to be realized. According to him, "The ends justify the means as long as there is something to justify the end". There was very little that Trotsky could have done to stop Lenin, regardless. He spoke out against Stalin and paid the price for it. Trotsky certainly had his flaws, but he shouldn't be compared to the likes of Stalin. Socialism also shouldn't be defined by the corruption of Soviet Russia. In fact, many of the people, who suffered under Lenin were socialists.
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Take it easy, mate! Say what you will about Trotsky but at least he actually accomplished a revolution! My boy led the Red Army to victory in the civil war and hammered the counter-revolutionary Whites. We can criticise Trotsky, Lenin and the Bolsheviks as much as we like, but I think it's safe to say they achieved more for the working class than either of us! We talk theory all the time but they actually put theory into practice
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@onemanarmy2electricboogalo687 You say he 'didn't accomplish anything' despite him protecting Soviet Russia in its infancy from White counter-revolution. Forgive me for misunderstanding, but what you're saying doesn't really make too much sense!
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That worker sounds like an idiot. How could he expect the Bolsheviks to create a perfect, utopian society when the White Armies and imperialist powers were trying to brutally destroy them? I mean, really?
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@mmmhmmm8236 What do you mean by that? Something tells me Trotsky wouldn't have been inclined to ally himself with the Nazis in the early war years.
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@SeattlePioneer 'I agree that Trotsky would not have had the ability of motivation to engage in the stupendous brutality that created the USSR war machine that beat Hitler'. That's a pretty big conclusion to jump to, if I may say so myself! Considering that Trotsky led the Red Army to victory and crushed the White Army in the civil war/war of intervention, I'd say he would have stood a pretty good chance of leading the Soviet state against the Nazis.
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It's ironic that, like Fanny Kaplan, the Left Socialist Revolutionary who shot Vladimir Lenin, Ramón Mercader also thought that he was helping Marxism by killing a revolutionary leader. However, as we know, in spite of their early deaths, Lenin and Trotsky's legacy still lives on!
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@dutchymon I've noticed that Trotskyists never make jokes about the deaths of 'Marxist-Leninist' figures like Che Guevara or Fred Hampton. I dunno about you, but I think that says a lot about who is the more mature of the two groups. Next, are you gonna joke about James Connolly and Rosa Luxembourg getting killed?
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Yeah, 'cause Trotsky, the Jewish communist revolutionary who led the Red Army to victory over the Whites, was also a Nazi supporter. Terrific logic you got there!
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And didn't Lenin say that BEFORE the Russian Civil War, and before Trotsky led the Red Army to victory over White counter-revolution? I'm pretty sure that, after that, Lenin sung a very different tune about Trotsky and his commitment to Marxism.
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Like James Connolly, Rosa Luxembourg, Vladimir Lenin, Karl Liebknecht and countless others, Leon Trotsky was yet another revolutionary whose life was tragically cut short. He had pretty much nothing in common with neoliberals, when it comes down to it.
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