#trotski

[bocadosdefilosofia]

«Ver esta tendencia a crear jerarquías como algo inherente a los seres humanos nos ayuda a entender el rápido alejamiento de la igualdad que ocurrió en la antigua Unión Soviética. Es fácil decir, como dijo Trotski, que Stalin “traicionó” la revolución. Pero, antes de que Stalin llegara al poder, el propio Trotski, con el pleno apoyo de Lenin, había indudablemente traicionado la idea del comunismo como fuerza liberadora cuando reprimió brutalmente la sublevación de Kronstadt. En realidad, el movimiento comunista ha estado dominado por figuras autoritarias ya desde el propio Marx, que liquidó la Primera Internacional cuando vio probable que sus oponentes la controlaran. Pero el problema no es lo que hacen las individualidades revolucionarias. El problema es: ¿qué revolución igualitaria no ha sido traicionada por sus líderes? Y ¿por qué soñamos con que la próxima revolución será diferente? Nada de esto demuestra que la jerarquía sea buena, ni deseable, ni siquiera inevitable, pero sí hace ver que su supresión no va a ser tan fácil como suelen imaginarse los revolucionarios. Éstos son hechos que la izquierda necesita abordar de una vez. Para abordarlos la izquierda necesita aceptar y comprender nuestra naturaleza de seres producto de la evolución.»

Peter Singer: Una izquierda darwiniana: política, evolución y cooperación. Crítica, págs. 57-58. Barcelona, 2000.

TGO

@bocadosdefilosofia

@dias-de-la-ira-1

[hcdahlem]

Le rouge et le blanc

En imaginant le destin de deux frères engagés sur des voies politiques opposées, Harold Cobert réussit une fresque éblouissante, pleine de bruit et de fureur sur la Russie de 1910 à 1990. Un tour de force éclairant et éblouissant.

  En deux mots Alexeï et Ivan Narychkine ne sont que des enfants quand la révolution couve en Russie. Mais en 1917, les deux frères, fils d’aristocrates, vont choisir des voies différentes. Entre le rouge, bien décidé à faire triompher le communisme, et le blanc, en faveur d’un gouvernement réformateur et modéré, la guerre va s’engager. Ma note ★★★★ (j’ai adoré) Ma chronique Ivan le terrible,…

[kausparty]

historians will say they're masov and nilsen coded..

[milfstalin]

[too-many-rooks]

Tom McKay, as Jasper Tudor, in 'The White Queen' (2013).

hello kingdom come deliverance fandom. I still have no idea how to make video game gifs so I bring you my speciality instead; gifs of The Actor in a slightly obscure role from their earlier career where we can all pretend its The Character in an au. Helped by the fact that this is a medieval setting and his character has a romantic connection he can't pursue because of an arranged political marriage so he diverts his devotion into looking after his love's child (who just so happens to be called Henry.)

[txttletale]

it is very silly when people say the stock 'dead white guys' line about marxist theory. just betrays a really stunning ignorance of the history of, like, the entire 20th century innit. all my favourite white guys mao zedong and zhou enlai and ho chi minh and frantz fanon and walter rodney and kwame nkrumah &c. &c. &c. &c...

[commiearabgirll]

[komsomolka]

he had such a way with words

[wolfythewitch]

I imagine you've received a lot of asks like this, but I couldn't find any. As a Christian, how do you feel about the genocide in Gaza?

It's a genocide. Not much to feel other than horror and outrage

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I dreamed up an entire documentary about Leon Trotsky. I have no idea if it was historically accurate, but it ended with him walking into a lamp post.

[yaoisheviks-bracket]

bracket submission requirements

stalin, lenin, trotsky are all banned

must have been a bolshevik or menshevik or closely related to them

please submit full names including the patronymic (if applicable)

propaganda welcome but not necessary

[victusinveritas]

[tsumisgarden]

I was thinking it's a sign

That the freckles in our eyes

Are mirror images

And when we kiss

They're perfectly aligned

–Such Great Heights, The Postal Service

I was thinking about how this song is such a Hansry song. Because if you think about it, it might not be the freckles in their eyes, but Henry’s arrow wound and Hans's (the one he got from Suchdol) are on opposite sides.

So when they kiss, the scars would be aligned.

If I were to push the analogy, it’s a little as if they had been pierced by the same arrow (Cupid’s arrow?) while embracing each other and – I don't know, I just think it's a neat detail, even if it's probably not intentional.

[milfstalin]

[wolfgirliosef]

trotsky's head just did that