Originally Posted By: Trvlr500
Trotsky was first. He was like many in America today living in the childish dreamworld of Marxism where the government can solve everyone's problems and deliver their childish utopia.
Trotsky's whole shtick was about community councils (the Russian word for that is "soviet" I am told) who were immediately and directly accountable to, and recallable by the people they *served* (not lorded *over*). That's why he was first exiled, then assassinated. He seemed to have an eerily accurate fear of big government.
(Sorry for the politics, but Trvlr500 either has a very wry sense of humour or... Well, I'll just assume he has a very wry sense of humour.) Trotsky is about as connected to the disasters of big gov't socialism as Geo. Washington is to Enron, et al.
Trotsky was first. He was like many in America today living in the childish dreamworld of Marxism where the government can solve everyone's problems and deliver their childish utopia.
Trotsky's whole shtick was about community councils (the Russian word for that is "soviet" I am told) who were immediately and directly accountable to, and recallable by the people they *served* (not lorded *over*). That's why he was first exiled, then assassinated. He seemed to have an eerily accurate fear of big government.
(Sorry for the politics, but Trvlr500 either has a very wry sense of humour or... Well, I'll just assume he has a very wry sense of humour.) Trotsky is about as connected to the disasters of big gov't socialism as Geo. Washington is to Enron, et al.
