How the fuck do you even chimp out over some letter in a different script?
Farm's etiquette forbids making useless posts, but even at the risk of making a blatantly obvious observation, the answer is...autism. Powerful, unrestrained autism. Let's face it, Wikipedia might just as well be a honeypot for Asperger's, it's made to appeal to the people fascinated by train schedules.
Wouldn't it be a much shorter list if they just listed ones who aren't? Or would there not even be enough to qualify for a category?
So... typical Wikipedian.
loathe am i to defend wikipedia editors, but this is unrelated to the page being on an anti homo topic. checking the page history the original version of the article was a copyright violation by a creator who had committed hundreds of instances of plagiarism. wikipedia has a very homosexual and extremely slow method of dealing with this. or well not dealing with it since the backlog is like 12 years or some shit kek. the rewritten version of the page was shorter because the creator probably just didn't want to deal with it. if they hadn't the page would just be gone entirely.
Trots are the scum of the earth, but “zero elected officials” is kind of missing the point.
What does this mean? Is he missing the point because communists actually want a "revolution" instead of actually winning elections?
Yeah, basically. Participating in (capitalist) elections means you legitimise them, and the system they represent. It’s also a fundamentally unfair battleground, with capital controlling media, parliaments, and the economy, so you discredit your movement for no realistic chance of establishing socialism. The one thing Marxist-Leninists and Trots agree on is that the only way to overthrow the bourgeoisie is through armed revolution. Anything short of that is revisionism (Trots are of course fundamentally highly revisionist, this just happens to be a point they haven’t strayed on).
Eh...I get what you mean, but that's not really the case here. Left-Trots oppose elections, some ultra-left trots even oppose trade unions (yeah, really, because its syndicalist right wing deviation), but I would say the mainstream Trots support diversity of tactics, and support both influencing the system through elections AND through revolution. You know, like the original Bolsheviks, those two things aren't mutually exclusive. South America especially has a lot of democratically elected Trots.
Trots are notoriously prone to splitting, there are Trot groups for every single line of thinking. “How do you create a dozen new Trotskyist parties? You assemble the members of an existing one.” There’s a reason real communists hold to the vanguard party and democratic centralism.
He considered himself a follower of the original Marxism-Leninism, but he definitely introduced enough new concepts in his critiques of Soviet Communism in The Revolution Betrayed that I think it's reasonable to call people who follow him specifically Trotskyists or Trotskyites.
