Reply #53: Why not? Yep Ramon Mercader killed him with.......... [View All]

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an ice pick in August 1940. It took him 25 hours to die. But Trotsky was an ENEMY of Stalin, and Stalin, being the paranoid that he was, was bound to kill Trotsky, sooner or later.

The reason I picked the Trotsky quote though, was because Trotsky was the leading proponent of a world socialist movement, whereas Stalin was in favor of building and consolidating socialism in a single country, the USSR. I thought it was apropos because we seem to be seeing a WORLDWIDE growth in class consciousness and that quote kind of summed it up.

Why not Trotsky? I've never made a secret of the fact that I AM, philosophically, a Trotskyist. Or mostly so anyway. Like just about every other philosophical beliefs I have, I'm a heretic. Whether it's Marxism, Trotskyism, Buddhism, or Christianity, I'm not going to be dogmatic. I'll put my own spin on it.