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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Haha yeah

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Dude eventually got ice axed. Definitely not a good way to go.