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[–] aport@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could ask Trotsky but Stalin had him murdered 🤷

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

I've read Trot stuff and found their arguments unconvincing in this context. Global proletarian revolution is something we all have to exercise agency over, if youre in the soviet union you can't just rely on everyone else spontaneously uprising, you have to plan for that not happening. And it didn't happen, so...