#trotskyites

Although some Marxist-Leninists see Trotskyites as a counter-revolutionary anti-Communist force on the Left, I disagree with that perspective.

What I see in most Trotskyites are fellow Socialists who've been led unfortunately into an idealist direction that is often harmful to their own cause. We cannot have success within the Communist Movement unless we properly teach and adhere to Marx's Historical Materialism.

Trotsky was very good at capturing the imagination of Western Leftists by painting a picture of a sudden worldwide Communist Revolution that would keep a democratic framework Westerner's were already familiar with. But this is a fallacy, and it bears little relationship to a Materialist understanding of Socialist Revolution.

For one, it's inherently idealistic to imagine a Revolution that comes as a tidel wave sweeping away one Bourgeois Dictatorship after another and leaving behind a worldwide Proletarian Democracy. This idea is certainly enticing, but bears little grounding in the hard work of Socialist Revolution and ignores the long precedent of powerful Counter-Revolutionary forces that come down ruthlessly on any Socialist State that manages to form.

The Reactionary forces of the Bourgeoise will not just sit aside to watch Socialism swallow their worldwide dictatorships. They will work together to stomp out any Socialist State before it can even fully form.

The reality of Socialism on the ground has historically proven to back Stalin's theory of Socialism in one country.

That's not to say Revolutionaries should just accept one Socialist State and stop fighting from there. Not at all.

The theory of Socialism in One Country instead refers to the impact on Proletarian Movements worldwide having a successful Socialist Nation in existence will have.

What can be more motivating to Socialists everywhere than to have an example of Actually Existing Socialism succeeding against all odds against the Bourgeois Reactionary forces of Imperialism?

We saw this happen in the decades after the October Revolution. Socialists worldwide took heart in the Soviet example, they traveled to the CCCP to attend schools on Marxism and Revolution within the Soviet Union and took those lessons back to their home countries to lead successful revolutions based on Marxist-Leninist principals. Ho Chi Minh is probably the most prominent example of this.

Trotskyites also are encouraged to have a misplaced faith in Bourgeois democratic principals. Bourgeois Democracy is designed to trick the Proletariat. In principal, Bourgeois forms of democracy sound right. Offering all people's of various opinions an equal opportunity to convince their fellow citizens of their beliefs.

But the reality of this form of democracy is that it gives outlet to Reactionaries, Fascists, Capitalists, and other counter-revolutionary forces working for the Bourgeoisie to infiltrate and work towards the demise of Socialism.

This is an Idealist error. It strays wildly from the teachings of Marx and Engels, to say nothing of Lenin, Materialism and the further experiences of actual Socialist States.

One need only look to Venezuela to see what damage retaining Bourgeois forms of democracy can do to a Socialist Movement. However I won't go into detail on the Venezuela experiment here, it certainly shows the danger of hanging on to these Idealist conceptions of "Democratic Socialism".

What Marxism-Leninism sees and accepts is the unquestionable, eventual Counter-Revolution organized by the outside Capitalist Imperialist States. It will take many different forms and come from both within and without.

The Vanguard Party will be attempted to be infiltrated, bringing Revisionism, Opportunism and Reaction into the Party to destroy it's ideological cohesion.

Our defensive Armies will also be attacked from within, attempting to sow seeds of doubt within defenders of the Revolution and lower morale.

And one of the most common attacks on Socialist States by the Western Imperialist Powers has been it's covert funding, training and directing of terrorist organizations, Nationalists and other Far-Right Militarized forces to slowly break down, sow chaos and confusion, and instil fear into the peoples of a Proletarian State. And that doesn't even include the outright attacks, sanctions and other attempts at interference a Socialist State can expect by the rest of the Capitalist world.

We must, as Marxists and Materialists be prepared to defend any successful Revolution. This the CCCP and Marxist-Leninists were very successful at.

By smashing all relics of Bourgeois Democracy, outlawing Capitalist Parties and Organizations, and purging any remnants of Capitalism from the Party, the New Socialist State, and other organizations of Social Society, Marxist-Leninists showed they would not tolerate any infiltration by the forces of Imperialism and Reaction.

Instead a Socialist State must be built on the ashes of the Bourgeois State, not from within it. The Bourgeois State must be "Smashed" as Marx and Engels both described, and replaced by a Proletarian one.

Proletarian Democracy also cannot resemble Bourgeois Democracy. All Counter-Revolutionary forces must be excluded from the new system if a Socialist State is ever to hope to succeed. Defense of the Revolution MUST come first. Democratic processees must be preserved for the worker but denied to the Bourgeoisie.

This is the very essence of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

The key is to smash all remnants of Bourgeois State and Bourgeois power and replace it with the Proletarian State and Proletarian Power. It's not a live and let live situation. It's a live and destroy situation, and the Proletarian must come out on top in that fight. It will be ugly, Bourgeois "Rights" will be violated. Freedom of speech may exist, but it will not protect Counter-Revolutionary speech, Capitalist speech, Bourgeois speech, hate speech, or Fascist speech. Speech must only be protected for the Proletariat and the peasantry.

But traditionally, Trotskyites deny these defenses are necessary. Which means they do not believe in the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. They stick with the Idealist conception of live and let live, and have pettis Bourgeois ideas about democracy, mostly because of the propaganda Westerns grow up with about their republican forms of democracy, and so it's easy to stick with what you're comfortable with. Instead of having to challenge your conception of democracy.

Trotskyites are our fellow Leftists. They are our Comrades led astray by Trotsky's vindictive attacks on Stalin and the Soviet Union, and the lies he told meant to appeal specifically to Western pettis Bourgeois academics.

We would do better as Marxist-Leninists to work towards convincing our Comrades of the value of analyzing Socialist Revolutions through a Historical Materialist lens. Once this is achieved, one cannot deny the reality of Trotsky's ideas. That they stray from Orthodox Marxism, from Leninism, and from the difficulty of building Socialism.

It's no coincidence that the Bourgeoisie allow Trotskyism to continue in the Western world, yet they clamp down ruthlessly on any burgeoning Marxist-Leninist Movement.

They go so far as to investigate Marxist-Leninist Organizations as terrorist groups. The Imperialist Capitalist States only seem to fear Marxism-Leninism, and don't see Trotskyism as a threat.