This Day In History:

Happy birthday Fidel !

Trotsky died.

OP-Bagration wrote:

Trotsky died.

trololol

As much as I don't like Trotsky and think he has objectively done more harm to progressive movements than good, I think executing him was a mistake. It made him a martyr and it's ultimately worked in favour of our enemies.

Do you mean Mercader wasn't a martyr?
I think his death may have been negative on long range. But on short range, it was a very good thing since trotskyism was totally disorganized and mostly disappeared until the 1960's. In a time of war against Nazi Germany, the immediate consequences were more important. However, I regret that he didn't died on the spot, because he didn't deserve to suffer.

Trotskyism is the real unfiltered Marxism. Luckily he did not take over the Soviet Union. No doubt his plans were far more diabolical than Stalin.

aw you guys are cute. i guess im going to be an imt member soon.

Their website is pretty decent and useful.

Loz wrote:

Yes the Poles understood. But can you not see that he had many insane ideas? For him there was not to be 'Socialism In One Country' but instead the revolution was to be spread to the rest of Europe.

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Yes the Poles understood.

No they didn't, i was just joking.
Poland was one of the most reactionary countries in the post-Versailles Europe, truly a miserable place.

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But can you not see that he had many insane ideas?

For example?

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For him there was not to be 'Socialism In One Country' but instead the revolution was to be spread to the rest of Europe.

All and every Bolshevik wanted that, of course.

October 31

• 475 – Romulus Augustulus is proclaimed Western Roman Emperor.
• 1517 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
• 1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.
• 1961 – In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's Tomb.
• 1968 – Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.
• 2000 – Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been continuously crewed since.

chaz171 wrote:

It's October Revolution Day!!

I think the dude who was pro-Jonestown also subscribed to kennedy assassination myths.

Now world order people sometimes make some valid points. What they don't realise is that what they are seeing is capitalism and imperialism as a more or less global system, not some back room conspiracy like the smoking man on the X-Files.

Technically, not this day, but I hope that the mods will show some leniency:

Athens, Greece, 2nd of December 1944: 6000 british troops disembark at Faliro, Greece.

3rd of December 1944: A demonstration called by the EAM results in 28 comrades dead and another 140 injured

Night of the 3rd of December: A General Strike is called in honour of the victims

Early Morning of the 4th of December: Lieutenant-General Ronald Scobie, acting in the name of the Greek Government, decrees martial law. At the same time British forces flank and disarm part of EAM's 2nd Regiment.

4th of December: Greek fascists attack the people attending the funeral resulting in 40 dead comrades and 70 injured

5th of December: New demonstartions result in 30 dead comrades and over a 100 injured

1919- Nazi Party predecessor created

1968- Prague Spring begins