Praising the crimes of Stalinism: The DSA and the assassination of Leon Trotsky

The DSA members celebrating Trotsky’s assassination include elected national office holders and leaders of its youth wing (YDSA), branch chairs, leaders of campus clubs and prominent DSA podcasters, as well as contributors to the Guardian and DSA-affiliated media outlets such as Jacobin magazine.

Those who are tweeting sick jokes about Trotsky’s murder are circulating the political equivalent of pornography. They are not only laughing about the murder of one of the towering figures in the history of twentieth century socialism, they are solidarizing themselves with the campaign of mass murder carried out by Stalin’s totalitarian regime.

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{The fact that such individuals hold leadership positions within the DSA should be taken as a serious warning by rank-and-file members and supporters of this organization. In politics, people are judged by what they do. Individuals who solidarize themselves with the crimes of Stalin have absolutely nothing to with genuine left-wing politics. The trajectory of their politics is not toward socialism, but toward supporting state repression against the socialist movement.}

This is what AOC and much of the squad are associated with. This is how their real colors shine, and what they would like to take from you in collaboration with the establishment democrats and ruling class. Marxist socialism built on benefiting all of society and the planet worldwide. I've been incrementally pointing this out since her fake entrance into the party. She's a fake socialist in a party engaged in war against socialism and socialist. Read carefully with an open mind.

{The Democratic Party is an imperialist-capitalist party and is rabidly anti-socialist. Why, then, are its operatives within the DSA—which claims to be a variety of anti-Stalinist socialism—glorifying the crimes of Stalinism and recycling its slanders against Trotsky?}

For the same reason democrats attempt to portray being the champions of democracy while engaging in suppression of in 2016 and 2020, are virtually silent on republican's unethical practices of erasing voters off their stronghold list for several election cycles now. They really don't care about the voting process, they know they'll aways be winners as long as the ruling class remain content with them. This has been as obvious in recent years as to our society going to shit around us. Which they avoid 99% of their time. It doesn't effect them and they don't care about you. As long as they can fool you into being content, again, they keep winning.

{To understand the political logic that underlies this apparent contradiction, it is necessary to review the historical context of the Stalinist terror of the 1930s and its relationship to American politics during the era of Roosevelt’s New Deal. That period was the heyday of the political alliance between a substantial section of Democratic Party liberals and the Stalinist American Communist Party. This alliance was known as the Popular Front, which was devised by the Kremlin—in the aftermath of Hitler’s rise to power in Germany—to draw the democratic imperialist governments of Europe and the United States into an alliance with the Soviet Union. In return for more favorable diplomatic relations with these imperialist states, the Soviet regime and the national Communist parties under its control would support bourgeois governments and suppress working-class struggles against capitalism.}

{The Democratic Party is once again threatened by a growing movement of the working class. It recognizes and fears that the radicalization of youth and the working class can lead, unless diverted, toward a break with capitalist politics and, therefore, a serious movement for socialism.

The Democratic Party employs the DSA to prevent this development.}

The democratic party for 2 election cycles managed to thwart off a fake Sanders movement, 2020 with the help of a virus, they have passed the agenda to the DSA to herd those supporters into the rabbit hole of oligarchy state communism which rules over us today.