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I stopped having much admiration for Trotsky after I read Marxism and Terrorism (and wrote a paper on it) for a college history class. The Marxist professor wasn't enamored of my analysis.

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I had great fun in HS subscribing my HS civics teacher, whom I actually liked for her rigor, to a Trotskyite newspaper.

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Trotsky was like Dr. Morbius in Forbidden Planet, crying "I abjure thee" as his Krell amplified id burned its way into his redoubt.

To be fair though, I recently read an article on Stalin and how he took over the Soviet Union, and, indeed, Trotsky was ousted in a bureaucratic coup.

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Yes indeed...

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