it was perceived as such a fuck up critics of stalin started airing the rumor he’d lost on purpose.
It’s simply fact that it was a stain on his reputation and one he cared about.
As for your wish for clarification.
One of Trotsky’s biggest problem with Trotskyites was first campism or calls for supporting the enemies of the USSR.
Here he goes in against the trotskyist accusations of bureaucratic collectivism against the USSR and argues for support of the USSR against its political and military enemies: (Theres actually a bunch of this. This is just very succinct)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1937/11/ussr.htm
Here is his statement on the huac thing:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1939/12/dies2.html
He argues that banning “extremist” groups is stupid because the state never actually goes against fascists and power is always deployed against the working class (And also because he believes it lends the commubist party of america credibility it does not have). And while he has numerous critiques (Many unfair) of the soviet union he argues both against banning the communist party and against kicking "stalinist " out of socialist organizations and trade unions
Np.
It’s worth reading trotsky as a marxist leninist imho, even if you don’t agree with him and even if you will probably come away with a quite poor view of the man, just for all his arguments against trots.
it was perceived as such a fuck up critics of stalin started airing the rumor he’d lost on purpose. It’s simply fact that it was a stain on his reputation and one he cared about.
As for your wish for clarification. One of Trotsky’s biggest problem with Trotskyites was first campism or calls for supporting the enemies of the USSR.
Here he goes in against the trotskyist accusations of bureaucratic collectivism against the USSR and argues for support of the USSR against its political and military enemies: (Theres actually a bunch of this. This is just very succinct) https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1937/11/ussr.htm
Here is his statement on the huac thing: https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1939/12/dies2.html He argues that banning “extremist” groups is stupid because the state never actually goes against fascists and power is always deployed against the working class (And also because he believes it lends the commubist party of america credibility it does not have). And while he has numerous critiques (Many unfair) of the soviet union he argues both against banning the communist party and against kicking "stalinist " out of socialist organizations and trade unions
Thank you for the sources
Np. It’s worth reading trotsky as a marxist leninist imho, even if you don’t agree with him and even if you will probably come away with a quite poor view of the man, just for all his arguments against trots.