Disclaimer: I adore my anarchist comrades and I don’t write for a newspaper, I have in fact never even read one.

  • alexandra_kollontai [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    I’m part of a smallish local trot organisation whose members are grounded in reality and bring interesting conversations to the table. I don’t really understand why everyone here digs into trots, I assume it’s all part of a years-long inside joke on the site and I interpret it as good faith joshing around.

    …That is how I’m supposed to interpret it, right?

    • hotcouchguy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      It’s like anti-italian racism, only instead of being illiterate like Italians, every trot aspires to run their own publishing house.

    • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      It probably depends on the trots you know. I hang out with an ex-Trot org that dropped the Trot label because Trots were generally way too harsh on smaller Marxist revolutions (e.g. Cuba, Vietnam, Laos etc). I also know a lot of SAlt members (both current and former) that I mention elsewhere in the thread. I think trots can vary quite wildly, both individually and as organisations.