MustCrushCapitalism

Yes, it is.

Who's that snazzy man in your avatar, if you don't mind me asking?

hahaha, it's fine I don't care about that.

Thanks, though I feel I don't post as often as I should. It used to be that I just wasn't in a position to say anything intelligent, but that's changed as I'm now better versed in Marxist theory and such.

I see you're in New York. Ever put any thought into local organizations? We can talk about that through PM sometime if you'd like.

Hey man, just want to say I enjoy reading your posts. They're very well-written and informative.

Hate to sound this ageist, but it's kind of surprising that you're only a junior in high school. You seem really intelligent compared to most juniors I know.

You cannot deny pilgrim Jones' magnificent contributions to temple socialist thought! Praise Jones! ! Power to Jones!

Long live the temple!

What made you disillusioned with Stalinism?

You dropped Stalinism at least.. hopefully you aren't going to become an ultra-leftist or something crazy like that. Those people at Red Marx have extremely shitty politics.

There has always been a fundamental divide between Lenin and Trotskyism. Even in 1917 after Trotsky joined the Bolsheviks, Lenin tirelessly attacked "Trotskyism"(yes, he identified it as such and called it that even then). This is revealed through a study of Lenin's Collected Works and archival materials. I am in the process of scanning some of this material, and can send it to you when I am through.

It is true that the Western press referred to "Lenin and Trotsky", but mainly in the sense that there was a divide between them. British intelligence came to this conclusion and allowed Trotsky to return to Russia believing that he would prove to be a divisive force and cause division and disunity among the Bolsheviks, which they were proven to be correct about.

Furthermore, the capitalist phase of development cannot be skipped either. Trotsky was an idiot if he thought it could. Stalin actually realized this, and acknowledged that the productive forces needed to be developed through state capitalism under the dictatorship of the proletariat("Socialism", as Lenin would put it: "State-capitalism turned to the benefit of the people" ). Stalin never pretended that the law of value was abolished under socialism as Lenin defined it, as the productive forces needed to be further developed before that could happen.