• @Chocrates
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    428 days ago

    Lenin’s party at least lifted up and used folks like Stalin, so it may have been better but I doubt it would have been “good”.

    I don’t really know a thing about Trotsky though, other than he was Lenin’s chosen successor and then had to flee before getting assassinated

    • @NOT_RICK
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      928 days ago

      Trotsky was inclined to empower the workers’ councils (Soviets) to be decision-makers. He was far more democratic than most of the other Bolsheviks. Not saying it would have worked, but I highly doubt it would have been worse than the Stalinist era.

      • @Chocrates
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        228 days ago

        Was Trotsky a Russian chauvinism? But based solely on Stalin, it’d be hard to do worse, by whatever measure you have for worse.

        • @NOT_RICK
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          428 days ago

          He was a Ukrainian Jew so I would say no as he was already an outsider in that respect. Then again Stalin wasn’t exactly Russian either