The Soviet Union should've done more to export the revolution to other countries
Because they didn't do this, the Soviet Union betrayed the revolution
Because they betrayed the revolution, they were basically the worst thing ever, worse even than capitalist countries like the US
Because the US is the lesser evil, it should export ~~the revolution~~ freedom and democracy to other countries.

Trotskyists just want to invade countries and call it liberation, it's really a short jump into becoming neocos imo.

[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 hours ago

They don’t want to militarily export the revolution to other countries.

[–] NikkiB@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Some names would help here... I know Reagan was famously left-leaning in his younger years, as was Jeb Bush, but other than that I can't think of any ex-Trot neocons.

[–] guardofrepublic@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 hours ago

Irving Kristol,the father of neocon,he was a Trotskyite in his youth.

[–] ghost_of_faso3@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 12 hours ago

Trots get bullied out of every single leftist org for not reading books and accepting all of the lies told to them by the upper class about socialists.

They then pull a Mussolini and swap teams out of spite.

[–] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 5 points 11 hours ago

all the trots who left the USSR for the US. think about who they ended up hanging out with considering "i hate the USSR" was their main deal.

[–] Onewhoexists@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

Funnily enough, I was thinking of this exact thing a couple days ago.

[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 13 hours ago

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=sgr2jkZxFcM

[–] June@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

because the most devout opponents of communism are self-proclaimed communists and also Trotskyism is uninformed cowardice

[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 13 hours ago

the most devout opponents of communism are self-proclaimed communists

This is simply not true. Read William Blum’s Killing Hope. Pseudosocialists represented a minor source of anticommunism, yet in many such cases they were funded by the CIA, which in turn is a product of the upper classes. I doubt that you’ll find more than a couple of billionaires who claim to be communists.