From the "Slouching Towards Utopia" cutting-room floor (and probably also from the extended notes)
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.
I had great fun in HS subscribing my HS civics teacher, whom I actually liked for her rigor, to a Trotskyite newspaper.
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.
Scanning thru this the peabrain thought about history rhyming. Trotsky in exile and trump in exile.
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.
I had great fun in HS subscribing my HS civics teacher, whom I actually liked for her rigor, to a Trotskyite newspaper.
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.
Scanning thru this the peabrain thought about history rhyming. Trotsky in exile and trump in exile.