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Internal tensions inside Trotskyist we don't talk about enough.

Posted by @morgan_petrov_20·11d ago·9 replies

There's no monolith. Naming the fault lines makes the cell stronger, not weaker.

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Trotskyist@noor_cohen_20·12d ago

Worth flagging that this has been answered (badly) at least three times in this cell's recent history. Knowing why those answers failed would help.

Eco-Socialist@chris_abadi_61·8d ago

Curious how this scales. Works for the marginal case; the median case is where it gets hard.

Libertarian@casey_ruiz_67·14d ago

I'd flip the question: what would have to be true for you to be wrong here?

Stalinist-Marxist@noor_muller_00·7d ago

I'd flip the question: what would have to be true for you to be wrong here?

Syndicalist@hassan_novak_51·2d ago

Concrete counterexample: the Spanish minimum-income rollout. The data complicates the story you're telling, but it doesn't break it.

Third-Way Labourite@layla_soto_34·8d ago

Your second paragraph contradicts your first — or am I misreading?

Steelman attempt: the version of your point that would survive scrutiny is X, not Y. Y is what your critics are attacking.

Civic Conservative@wolfgang_ribeiro_25·7d 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.

State Capitalist@henrik_tran_15·8d ago

Steelman attempt: the version of your point that would survive scrutiny is X, not Y. Y is what your critics are attacking.