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I have been looking at British leftist content don’t @ me my fellow Americans. I noticed that most of them are trots it’s like a parody of what the us left was in the 2000s full of trots opportunists and your occasional based person who is either old enough to have been around before Soviet Union fell and has reactionary social views or is a borderline hoxhaist. Not saying the American left is better. But we don’t have this level of revisionism. I know there’s some political differences like how the American left became very much taken over by Maoists from the 60s to late 70s. Then went super revisionist as a result of the fall of the USSR then went trot for about 5 years due to anti sovietism. Then we arrive where we are today where the main parties are all strands of ML at this point. Yet the British left has an over abundance of Trots and Anarchists.

Prime example is Ash Sakar and the Novarra Media people.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

I dunno, I was with the CPGB for a while and they were firmly ML and big fans of Stalin. Many old queer members who had actually been to the Soviet Union when they were young. Even one guy who didn't speak to his parents any more because they were trots 😂

Anyway, I feel like the reality on the ground does not really reflect in the media that gets put out.