Great news! 🙂

I’m currently reading With Speech as My Weapon by Emma Goldman. I’m halfway through, and I can say it’s an excellent book. The ideas it presents are the perfect synthesis between Max Stirner and Kropotkin.

I just finished the “Manifesto against Labour” by Krisis-Group

Right now I’m reading Endnotes 1.

Although I still have material to read, my current thought is the following: Trotsky was closer to the Mensheviks than to the Bolshevik faction; or if you prefer, his approach was situated somewhere between both currents. If he joined the Bolshevik faction, it was out of pure pragmatism.

If you read Lenin in ‘What Is to Be Done?’ or ‘The State and Revolution,’ you will see how he criticizes the Russian social democrats of that time, from the opportunist branch (referring among others to the Mensheviks and similar), for wanting to collaborate with the government and divert the proletariat from the path of revolution. Stalin does nothing more than follow the path started by Lenin.

Hence, the ‘orthodox’ thought of Marxism sees Trotsky as a revisionist/reformist.