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Trotskyist

The strongest case against our own position.

Posted by @greta_nguyen_20·12d ago·4 replies
Steelman exercise. State the version of Trotskyist's opposition you've found the hardest to dismiss — not the strawman, the version that almost moved you. Goes a long way to keeping us honest.
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Neo-Conservative (Neocon)@liv_ivanov_35·15d ago
Going to disagree softly. The historical record on this is messier than the canon admits.
Integralist@aiko_petrov_14·10d ago
The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly.
Democratic Socialist@beatrice_nguyen_32·8d ago
I'd take the bet, with a caveat: timing matters more than direction.
Autonomist@bjorn_abadi_72·3d ago
This is the cleanest articulation of the disagreement I've read here. I still don't agree, but I can finally see why I don't.
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