What is a Trotskyist?

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  • There seems to be an awful lot of hysteria these day about Trotskyists. With all subjects of moral panic - Brexit, the War on Terror, Swine Flu- I always find it helpful to get down to brass tacks and work out exactly what's going on before deciding whether or not to be affraid.
    So, what the blue blazers is a Trotskyist? Join me on a jounrey back in tim to Russia 1917...

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  • @NikolaiMaistrenko
    @NikolaiMaistrenko 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Yeah. Thank you! Great video! I’m from Russia! It very interesting what would be if Trotskiy had won. For me is one of the most interesting question of alternative history.

    • @tianwong7168
      @tianwong7168 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      His ideas were not realistic. I see no way he could have won.

  • @ianonline
    @ianonline 8 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    If this definition is all correct and I've no reason to doubt it, then surely the only reason to use "Trot" to demean someone is because of favouring support for private profits over people instead of democratic socialism.

    • @JacquiBerryausterityblows
      @JacquiBerryausterityblows  8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      +Ian Mayman precisely.

    • @stevef1391
      @stevef1391 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Austerity Blows What is the name of the book you held up at the beginning?

    • @hotelcampina
      @hotelcampina 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      or because they´re threatening to snaffle your wealth

    • @Wubulixi
      @Wubulixi 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Im Marxist-Leninist and also anti-Trotskist. The "Democratic Socialism" is being abused like a little kid in the Papal State... Even the Khmer Rouge claimed to be "Democratic Socialists" after mid-80s...

    • @sassycassgames3158
      @sassycassgames3158 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ian Mayman My buggest objection is how Trotskyists tend to betray other leftist groups during the revolution.. like Makhno.

  • @lifeshorts1928
    @lifeshorts1928 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Cheers for subscribing. It's nice to see someone getting a decent amount of views talking about UK politics.

    • @archvaldor
      @archvaldor 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Unfortunately it is probably more to do with the fact she's easy on the eye, rather than a sudden growth in political awareness.

    • @End-Result
      @End-Result 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      ???

    • @JacquiBerryausterityblows
      @JacquiBerryausterityblows  8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      +Archvaldor's Warcraft Hacks thankyou for you're patriarchal bullshit, complete dismissal of the hard work that goes in to producing video content and general ignorance of the opening up political situation. Really appreciate comments like that.

    • @archvaldor
      @archvaldor 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Austerity Blows
      I'm not denigrating your content or the value of increasing political awareness. I'm acknowledging the reallity of the situation.
      Keep up the good work.

    • @JacquiBerryausterityblows
      @JacquiBerryausterityblows  8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Archvaldor's Warcraft Hacks I'm glad that you think it's good work and not just that I fit some people's highly subjective interpretation of attractive.

  • @eleanorcm7033
    @eleanorcm7033 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Well done condensing a lot of info into such a short, clear explanation

    • @JacquiBerryausterityblows
      @JacquiBerryausterityblows  8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      thanks! you'll never please all trotskyists especially when talking about trotskyism but i was aiming to record a synopsis that wasn't going to cause massive splits and recriminations and hopefully challenge those becoming political engaged now to think about the way they view the world, what socialism means and how it is achievable.

  • @aucourant9998
    @aucourant9998 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I lived in a commune back in the 1970s. Some people were great at getting up early in the morning to milk the cows and take them out to the fields to graze, working in the vegetable gardens or cooking and baking bread. But some never seemed to put their hearts and souls into any of this kind of work. They were usually the ones who had the most to say at the weekly meetings about how things should get done. They were the Trotskyists.

    • @multipleleekisms
      @multipleleekisms ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Those people do not in any way represent Trotsky's work ethic that man was a workaholic!

  • @K_Huss
    @K_Huss 8 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    the music is too loud , i could barely hear you

  • @joolsfactor
    @joolsfactor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You are really helping me right now. I have found you at the right time. I needed to get a clearer understanding. THANKYOU

  • @alexrose9388
    @alexrose9388 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "We don't have peasants anymore, not even in Kent" LMAO

    • @JacquiBerryausterityblows
      @JacquiBerryausterityblows  8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +Chris W well, maybe a couple in Thanet!

    • @alexrose9388
      @alexrose9388 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      This whole Labour business is very serious. It''s nice to see some humour :-)

    • @stillnosheep5663
      @stillnosheep5663 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Eh, enough about Thanet, and you can leave Sheppey out of it as well...

    • @radaroreilly9502
      @radaroreilly9502 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Too bad there’s plenty of pedants...

  • @uttaradit2
    @uttaradit2 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Release your inner Trotsky. There's a Trotsky in everyone waiting to get out.

  • @dalellll
    @dalellll 8 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    for me a trotskyist is someone who wants a better world and the end of class society, and is part of the political tradition that has fought for that consistently without wavering... that's what it comes down to. Denigrating "trotskyists" basically translates to telling everyone that they should stop thinking you can change anything for the better and get back to suffering in silence. That's what *that* position comes down to. Imagine being the sorry sad lapdog that stands for that.

    • @JacquiBerryausterityblows
      @JacquiBerryausterityblows  8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      YES!

    • @lucien927
      @lucien927 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      dalellll The problem with Trotsky, along with Lenin and Stalin, is that you have to have state capitalism before going to communism, which itself is irony because you can't have an egalitarian society with bureaucracy.

    • @isismccain915
      @isismccain915 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      You were probably a big fan of the TV show "Big Government knows best", huh?

  • @gillydavis7182
    @gillydavis7182 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for that. It was quick and to the point, very enjoyable and informative.

  • @marcion5213
    @marcion5213 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think i am a trotskyist based on what i have heard about the permanent revolution it makes sense to at that time that you would keep the revolution going you won russia now use it as a base of operations for expansion for if the capitalist exist they will keep coming can you tell me of books or material that i could get that would help me learn more about him

  • @mrjoshua1414
    @mrjoshua1414 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I enjoyed the video. I'm not sure I'd take the label 'Trot', though I consider myself to be a democratic socialist. The question is: how do the workers take democratic control of means of production in a financialized economy?

  • @multipleleekisms
    @multipleleekisms ปีที่แล้ว

    I do not need anyone to tell me... Because I am a proud Trotskyist! Man was brilliant but unfortunately to a fault at times that did not endear him to some of those around him, and helped led to his downfall. #trotsky4life

  • @sambradley2975
    @sambradley2975 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    She's a cute little Commie. 😆

    • @JohnKobaRuddy
      @JohnKobaRuddy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I disagree with her Trotskyist nonsense but I’d ride her

  • @planktonblooms
    @planktonblooms 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am sooo subscribed to this channel ;-) One Trotskyist here, i just joined the labour party

  • @socialist-strong
    @socialist-strong 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Great video!

    • @joshuacox534
      @joshuacox534 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      "homeopathy is bad science"
      the healing powers of her gorgeous face says otherwise. hey oh!

  • @MaximilienRobespierre1
    @MaximilienRobespierre1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why are you still now making videos?

  • @roybatty4710
    @roybatty4710 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bodevan was a former Trotskyist, who incidentally hates the label Trotskyite, but now is a Maoist.

  • @SuperLdennis
    @SuperLdennis 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is great video, well done.

  • @latenightlogic
    @latenightlogic 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don’t get it then, why is there so much dislike from socialists about Trotskyism? There’s a lot of dissent out there. It sounds great to me.

  • @lindaharris111harris7
    @lindaharris111harris7 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you my friend you took the word's right from my mouth xx

  • @cmecoo3109
    @cmecoo3109 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "We don't have peasants - even in Kent" have you ever seen Chatham 😂?

  • @CoryMck
    @CoryMck 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video, I'm here from socislism explained. Just a tip, but you might want to lower the music in the mix and use deeper music so it doesn't blend with your voice.

  • @MikeGreenwood51
    @MikeGreenwood51 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Roddney Trotter and Del, his elder brother sitting in their 3 wheeler 'Trotter's Independant Trading' mobile outside the chippy on Peckham high street. When Roddney asks Del.
    'Del,...........you konw those Russian telephons we can't shift. Boicy says they were sold to us by our comrades the Russian Trotters, cheap because the system there mass produced them using forced peasant labour. Well if no one wants our garage full here in Peckham coz they don't work. Then why don't we take them to Russia and sell them there at half price? It would still make us a nice profit and enough for a holiday'.
    'Not bloody likely Roddney. Retorts Del. The Trotters there would string us up by the village tree. They believe selling a van load of genuine Russian phones to be bourgeois and exploitation of the masses. But worse that that they believe it to be an offence against the state'.

  • @brainbytes3484
    @brainbytes3484 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don't know about the permanent revolution point. Stalin was socialism in one country to strengthen the success of Lenin before expanding their reach. That said, i still think Trotsky would be better.

  • @haajelixir9462
    @haajelixir9462 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Kudos to you miss and thanks for the vid, lovely and simple!

  • @kapitankapital6580
    @kapitankapital6580 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Trotskyism is an ideology based on a lost electoral campaign in the 1920s which espouses that Trotsky was somehow the "natural successor" to Lenin and that under him the USSR would have been the utopia that all these edgy lefties wished it was. It is based in alternative history and well wishing, while ignoring the attrocities committed by Trotsky both during the Civil War and through Trotskyist terrorism in the 20s and 30s.
    Trotskyism will always have some supporters, leftists who ignore history and reality, who are caught up with the fantasy of "revolution", as it provides them with the ability to make the case for socialism while brushing under the rug all the real life examples of socialism in history.

    • @sambradley2975
      @sambradley2975 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Trotskyites are just "Stalinist lite ".

  • @waveydaveyspoonerbooner205
    @waveydaveyspoonerbooner205 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    brilliant love it great vid, shared

  • @mousegeek
    @mousegeek 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Probably best not to skip over the Red Terror - killings without trial, hanging enemies (and the innocent) from trees as a deterrent and lots of pitiless torture. This part of the Russian Revolution (which Trotsky defended) is kinda less romantic.

    • @JacquiBerryausterityblows
      @JacquiBerryausterityblows  8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      +mouse geek no it wasn't

    • @deafected
      @deafected 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      When talking about bloody revolutions and the red scare; we often forget the history of this country.

    • @archvaldor
      @archvaldor 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      No it doesn't. Marx was quite explicit on the point. Legislative peaceful revolutions can occur.

    • @archvaldor
      @archvaldor 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *****
      Karl Marx also said "We are aware of the importance that must be accorded to the institutions,customs, and traditions of different countries; and we do not deny that there are
      countries like America, England (and, if I knew your institutions better, I wouladd Holland) where the workers can achieve their aims by peaceful means." In short, he said a lot of stuff.

    • @luxemburgismwithhalf-asian2145
      @luxemburgismwithhalf-asian2145 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So like how the communist party was banned in the USA, Canada and in numerous other countries in the world?

  • @pedrocuviLEP
    @pedrocuviLEP 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    loved your video! many thanks! I'll search in your channel for more on Trotsky's main point for a permanent revolution. ✊

    • @JohnKobaRuddy
      @JohnKobaRuddy 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hahahaha read Trotskys laughable book revolution betrayed its first chapter s all about how great Stalin and Lenin are then spends the entire book crying how things are apparently shit and then cry’s throughout the rest of the book that he isn’t in power

  • @abigailaustin5666
    @abigailaustin5666 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    My main, and perhaps only question is, what appeals to you about Trotskyism vs Leninism? Is it the lack of violent revolution?

    • @JacquiBerryausterityblows
      @JacquiBerryausterityblows  8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Matthew Austin I think Lenin had some fantastic ideas. Fantastic ideas which he made a reality. The reason I'd describe myself as a Trotskyist is because Trotsky's works incorporated Lenin but also provided an analysis of the post Lenin period which Lenin couldn't do on account of being dead.
      While I would prefer as peaceful a revolution as possible, it is naive to think that the capitalist class would give over control of the means of production without a fight. Revolutionary violence is not something I aspire to. Socialist revolution is...

    • @JacquiBerryausterityblows
      @JacquiBerryausterityblows  8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Matthew Austin great insightful comment, really appreciated!

    • @abigailaustin5666
      @abigailaustin5666 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      That makes a lot of sense. I think that violence is something that is probably necessary for socialist revolution, but I completely agree that it's not something to glorify or overdo. I admit that I myself know much less about Trotskyism than other Socialist ideologies, but if it's similar to Leninism I can probably get behind it.
      I actually do have another question though (thank you for responding so quickly). What do you think of the Labour party? And isn't voting somewhat counterproductive when you believe the only way to create a socialist society is through violent revolution?
      It's a question that I myself am struggling with. I'm going to still vote, but the vast majority of my thinking is towards voting being ineffective and unhelpful overall, particularly in a system I view as rigged and corrupt. You can't legislate the redistribution of the means of the productions to the working class.
      Interested to hear your thoughts =)

  • @sassy7722
    @sassy7722 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    That's a complete misinterpretation of the theory of Socialism in One Country. The idea is to build Socialism in one country to protect against invasion (this being of paramount importance during ww2) before expanding, and in fact they did into Eastern Europe, Korea, China etc.

    • @fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
      @fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Stalin did not do a great job of preparing against invasion. The Red Army was much stronger than the German Army in 1941 but suffered terrible losses because the Red commanders had been slaughtered in 1937, replaced with incompetent ass-kissers, and Stalin didn't believe he would really be attacked by his ally Hitler.
      Socialism never existed in the USSR or its puppet states. The claim that socialism was built in the 1930's under Stalin was a lie. There can be no socialism without democracy - while hundreds of thousands of good communists were tortured, executed sometimes just for minor differences of opinion with the ruling clique.

    • @donbarzinitut
      @donbarzinitut 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @People Unite Do you believe Stalinist distortion ?

    • @JohnKobaRuddy
      @JohnKobaRuddy 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      BritTrot what distortion? If you want a distortion of Stalin read any major history book

  • @forestsoceansmusic
    @forestsoceansmusic 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ohhhh Baby! You did it! In 4:20, well done! Love your delivery, your stand, your accent, your quirkyness, and your looks = P
    You might be interested in my book: "The Essential Lenin --How To Create And Defend The Revolution", published on Smashwords last October, available on most eBook sites as a result of that (a bit more proceeds of sales trickles down to me if you buy it from Smashwords).
    One of my London comrades (I live in the antipodes) from the 1970's was always singing this song (which you reminded me of : ) "She wheeled her wheelbarra'
    Fru' streets wide and narra'
    Cryin' 'Cockles!' and 'Mussels!'
    Alive alive ho"
    You've got beauty, brains, integrity, humour and pizzazz all rolled into one! I think I'm in love! : )

  • @aaronrider4051
    @aaronrider4051 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    A Trotskyist is someone whose broken body rots at the bottom of a bog in the Kolyma, but whose spirit lives on in the hearts of delusional true believers who maintain that all of this suffering is an Aberration, while some of them - the cannier - know full well that they would have committed the same crimes if it came down to it. You today, me tomorrow.

  • @kaidenx_x7608
    @kaidenx_x7608 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Troskyism is the true worker ideology

  • @txxredtache
    @txxredtache 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was wonderful! I'm subscribing to your channel, you're ace! :D

  • @HistoryBradshaw
    @HistoryBradshaw 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was pretty good. I'm impressed for a 4min vid.
    (Hello from California)

  • @liamh5127
    @liamh5127 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Panic! I'll fetch me ice axe!

    • @phiAndpi
      @phiAndpi 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wot I want to know is did it makes his ears burn?

    • @liamh5127
      @liamh5127 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hopefully!

  • @occamshaver905
    @occamshaver905 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cracking explanation! Thanks A_B! :-D

  • @scubasausage
    @scubasausage 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you own any assets whatsoever, you should fear a trotsky uprising.

  • @JacktheRah
    @JacktheRah 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Okay lassie I agree with you on many points (I am a comrade as well) but why exactly a Trotskyist and not let's say a Luxemburgist since she was a lot more liberal than Stalin or even Trotsky for that matter. She was the hero of the socialists and was very much a fan of democracy and also letting people build opposition. Not saying that Trotsky didn't at all.

  • @Wubulixi
    @Wubulixi 8 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Read Stalin, it helps! Long live Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin!

    • @lucien927
      @lucien927 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      derstaemezocker It's the height of irony to want an egalitarian society with a bureaucracy...
      Marx believed in worker-controll; the workers owned the means of production. That did not happen in the Soviet Union because the state owned the means of production.

    • @elephantwarrior53
      @elephantwarrior53 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      I didn't know Stalin wrote any books.

    • @Wubulixi
      @Wubulixi 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Elephant Warrior He wrote quite many. "About dialectical and historical materialism" and "Marxism and national question" are a must.

    • @elsasslotharingen7507
      @elsasslotharingen7507 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Stalin was very conservative, having never truly accepted the necessity of the proletarian revolution. In 1917 he wanted to dissolve the Bolsheviks into the Mensheviks, only Lenin coming back from exile stopped him. He hindered the war efforts during the civil war, taking part in the military opposition, and he was a known attorney of counterrevolutionaries. In the struggle against revolutionary Bolchevism, Trotskyism, he ressurrected the old semi-Menshevik theory of democratic dictatorship to justify his support of the bourgeoisie in China, Germany, France, etc... When he had the power in his hands he crushed Party democracy, had the revolutionaries killed and defended the bureaucratic caste's privileges.
      For all his mistakes, Trotsky was much more capable and a more consistent revolutionary than Stalin.
      Long live Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky!

    • @kapitankapital6580
      @kapitankapital6580 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Bolshevik Leninist "having never truly accepted the necessity of proletarian revolution"
      Lol mate, put down your weed and pick up a book. Stalin dedicated his life to the revolution, he held it to be the most important thing, above life itself. Whatever else you may say about him, Stalin believed that socialism must be brought about, no matter the cost.

  • @JAMAICADOCK
    @JAMAICADOCK 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think you'd expect the Dictatorship of the Working class to be somewhat gangsterish.

    • @temtselhao1622
      @temtselhao1622 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      even that is still better than bourgeoisie exploitation

  • @MalekMagicianPR
    @MalekMagicianPR 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    If our generation has proved weak to impose socialism on earth, let our children at least have a clean flag. The struggle that goes on goes far beyond the importance of the people, the fractions to the parties. It is a struggle for the future of the human race. It will be a tough fight. And long. Those who look for the tranquility and the comfort that they leave us. In times of reaction, it is certainly more comfortable to live with the bureaucracy than to investigate the truth. But those to whom socialism is not an empty word but the goal of their moral life, go ahead! Neither threats, nor persecutions, nor violence will stop us. It will be perhaps on our bones, but, truth will prevail. We will open the way. The truth will win. Under the implacable blows of fate, I will feel happy, as in the great days of my youth, if I have succeeded in contributing to the triumph of truth. For the greatest happiness of man is not in the usufruct of the present, but in the preparation of the future. " -Leon Trotsky, Quatrieme Internationale, February 1937

  • @hyperlinkblocked1775
    @hyperlinkblocked1775 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    trotsky=life

  • @wmcc9080
    @wmcc9080 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cheers. I have been looking for someone to explain what Trotskyism is and you did it perfectly.
    Not a massive fan of Corbyn, but I dislike Blairites more.

  • @yorkinternationalsocialist4504
    @yorkinternationalsocialist4504 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved your video!

  • @disuc42
    @disuc42 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the video

  • @adamcortright3445
    @adamcortright3445 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    read wsws.org daily and join the international Trotskyist Movement, the ICFI/SEP/IYSSE

  • @sambradley2975
    @sambradley2975 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I used to be a "Trotskyite, but I believe that nothing would have changed even if Trotsky took over as was originally intended.

    • @kimobrien.
      @kimobrien. 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Could be true also. Maybe Trotsky and Lenin would have been both exiled if Lenin hadn't died. Lots of what if's could have created a different result. We pretty much know about a lot of things that that were done wrong by Stalin and his supporters. Its just a matter of reading Trotsky's criticisms in many ways. .

  • @lucrece4563
    @lucrece4563 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    No ! I don't want to be entered !

  • @jamesgurney3897
    @jamesgurney3897 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well put, well done!

  • @charlesex8191
    @charlesex8191 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    great video but the background music is really an odd choice. sounds like the background of a lifehacks or 5 ingredient meal video

  • @lmackenzie89
    @lmackenzie89 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video and explanation. News sites weren't explaining the phrase, presumably because they assume everyone studied history or PPE.

    • @JacquiBerryausterityblows
      @JacquiBerryausterityblows  8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +lmackenzie89 and yet *we're* the ones who are out of touch!

    • @lmackenzie89
      @lmackenzie89 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Austerity Blows absolutely. I'm an intelligent person (finishing a science PhD fight now), leftie, and I often closely follow politics, yet I still have to look up these terms and associated subtext. It just goes over people's heads

    • @JacquiBerryausterityblows
      @JacquiBerryausterityblows  8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +lmackenzie89 I think it benefitted both sides of the Cold War to effectively erase Trotsky from history....but we remember!

  • @commiebastard351
    @commiebastard351 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What do you think of Trotsky's Massacre of the Ukraine anarchists? (I'd understand if the answer was something along the lines of "it was horrible, but trotsky was a flawed individual who nonetheless had good political theory". I mean, some of the socialist thinkers I like were no saints either)

    • @thegoldensealion9463
      @thegoldensealion9463 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The anarchist uprising had to be put down, obviously. An anarchist country would be free land for the imperial capitalists. One every country had become socialist, the state will be abolished and true communism will be achieved

  • @davidodiseus6973
    @davidodiseus6973 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jenna Moreci theme

  • @planktonblooms
    @planktonblooms 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great Video. I love you xxx

  • @thisstillchangesnothing
    @thisstillchangesnothing 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ha, "we don't have peasants no more, not even in Kent" I bet there are a few from the silver spoon club who'd disagree but great line, nice video I'm subscribing! :-)

  • @marioqueso4303
    @marioqueso4303 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    We are only entitled to what we can obtain through exercising our power, and our power is great when we collectivize it. However, once we submit to a master, be it God, capitalism, the state, ideals of justice, etc. We hand over our collective power to those authorities and begin to act against our collective self interest, and in favor of those ideals and anyone claiming to serve those same masters.
    Why not become an anarchist? Why throw off the shackles of one master only to submit to another?
    Trotsky siezed power from the people and handed it over to a bunch of bureaucrats in the name of " the people". He may have had the best of intentions, but that action killed any hope of a successful revolution.

  • @kelly980
    @kelly980 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    I quite like some Trotskyists. But I'm more of a Rosa Luxemburg fan. She thought Trotsky and Lenin were bums.

    • @JacquiBerryausterityblows
      @JacquiBerryausterityblows  8 ปีที่แล้ว

      The life and work of rosa luxemburg is a fascinating subject. great video idea, thanks!

    • @JacquiBerryausterityblows
      @JacquiBerryausterityblows  8 ปีที่แล้ว

      The life and work of rosa luxemburg is a fascinating subject. great video idea, thanks!

    • @kelly980
      @kelly980 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Austerity Blows Great :)

  • @sambradley2975
    @sambradley2975 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    With much respect, she is rather lovely, looks Diane Keaton in "Reds ".

  • @julieknights1238
    @julieknights1238 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant explanation of all us Trotts

    • @JacquiBerryausterityblows
      @JacquiBerryausterityblows  8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      thanks, i was trying to find an explanation that all trotskyists can generally agree on, which is not easy believe me!

  • @nigelfletcher2550
    @nigelfletcher2550 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    What about Kronstadt !
    Liquidation of tendencies and factions in Bolshevik Party; legislation tht was used to usurp liquidate expel and execute Trotsky, Trotskyists Left Opposition among others !
    Trotsky's acceptance of one party state fro 10th , 11th 12th Congress, right up to his expulsion 1928, even according to Issaac Deautscher when until his death 1924 became very critical of this policy according to him implemented for emergency measures during civil war !

  • @tgmurphy
    @tgmurphy 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    She sounds very knowledgable. The light music playing in the background was so obnoxious. But the medium killed the message.

  • @tianwong7168
    @tianwong7168 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Stalin was much more realistic than Trotsky. Nice idea, but I'm afraid it's just that, a nice idea which I don't believe can be pulled off. Trotskyism doesn't account for local conditions and cultures, just simply throwing the word "Revolution" at them doesn't work. At the end of the day, each culture and each ethnic group has to find their own way to modernisation and throwing "World Revolution" at them all just does not work.

  • @ncandanto
    @ncandanto 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well done by you

  • @eugenesukhoi7025
    @eugenesukhoi7025 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    nice night for a walk.

  • @victorhunt5788
    @victorhunt5788 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    I blame Richard Burton for dying young !

  • @mikeray2615
    @mikeray2615 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Que the icepicks

  • @iamreg1965
    @iamreg1965 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You say there are no peasants in the UK? Have you tried debating with the bog standard UKIP voter lately?
    Anyway...well done and a gold star.

  • @darthnachname573
    @darthnachname573 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    totally agree. :D

  • @blueleaftuber
    @blueleaftuber 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    good useful and pretty useful. maybe next time you should turn your vocal levels up tho, it's a little hard to hear

  • @alan2102X
    @alan2102X 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Music is way too loud - competes with oral narrative.

  • @Bornin-ot4cx
    @Bornin-ot4cx 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for this - had to know more after dodgy dispatches !

    • @JacquiBerryausterityblows
      @JacquiBerryausterityblows  8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Born in 1979 you sound just like my line manager....are you my line manager?

    • @Bornin-ot4cx
      @Bornin-ot4cx 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      I hope not! I haven't lived in the UK for a while, some time in New Zealand and currently a virtual nomad - this message is from Vietnam.
      I grew up in a politicaly active family - CND, Labour, so the left is in my blood. I actually like a lot of what JC has to say - reform of the Royals, Trident etc - but this is such an easy target for the Tory's/News Internationa.
      Will he ever win an election.... No.
      But he's stood by his principlas, which I respect.
      Don't get me started on career poloiticians....

  • @UNION_JACK_THE_RIPPER
    @UNION_JACK_THE_RIPPER 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    are you off to socialism this year in london if you are cant wait to see you

    • @JohnKobaRuddy
      @JohnKobaRuddy 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Along with all the other controlled opposition spy groups

  • @lainesheldon-houle9476
    @lainesheldon-houle9476 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Are you a member of the IMT?

  • @jarrod5855
    @jarrod5855 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    What were the books you held up?

  • @karstais
    @karstais 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    In my eyes a ideal party would be a of Koumintang and trotskyst

    • @JohnKobaRuddy
      @JohnKobaRuddy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Naturally it would! Haha the fascist kmt and the “we pretend Trotsky wasn’t a fascist spy and we hate fascists more than you, but here he is siding with fascism for the umpteenth time” Trotskyists side by side again like in the 30’s and 40’s, but at that time you were spying AGAINST the kmt for Japanese imperialists for a time! Do you ever wonder why socialism in the west can’t take off when the secret intelligence agencies led universities will only allow Trotskyist thought because it leads nowhere and keeps the restless corralled holding placards and doing fuck all!?

  • @marilynmalone1381
    @marilynmalone1381 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    What's the name of your party?

    • @JohnKobaRuddy
      @JohnKobaRuddy 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      We don’t know but if it contains that red fist symbol you have then it’s controlled opposition because that’s a OSW/CIA symbol created in the 30’s and used by Trotskyist, anarchist and far right groups

  • @thefishoftruth235
    @thefishoftruth235 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    i like stalin and trotsky. am i a freak?

  • @Marquipooh
    @Marquipooh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is fucking nonsense and I hope this person has grown up since they've posted this.

  • @Freegon444
    @Freegon444 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like seeing people calling themselves Trotskyists but girl I got a bit dizzy both by the video and the comments.
    You 've done a research but it seems that you didn't cover many things,still a good try.Trosky was speaking of revolutions and riots.That's the way this capitalistic system will get overthrowned.So go to the streets at the riots find and bring friends with you too...Every time try to maximize the number of people on the street with studying,understanding the world and using a revolutionarist propaganda.

  • @n.o.2769
    @n.o.2769 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Absolutely undialectical

  • @miltonfriedman6687
    @miltonfriedman6687 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    STOP IT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  • @stephendavison5945
    @stephendavison5945 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    permanent revolution,surely more interesting than strong and stable

  • @imcyta3900
    @imcyta3900 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm an ML but respect

  • @xyzsame4081
    @xyzsame4081 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I had to give up on listening to your video - the music is too loud - and not necessary anyway. you seem articulate and the topic is interesting - why would you WANT to DISTRACT from your (as far as I heard in the beginning well delivered) message ? You likely prepared what you wanted to say (saving us the Aaahhhs and Ummmms) - so why take away from it ?
    I have nothing against background music in the right environment (at home or in a bar or something) but if something relevant is said, I would rather have the CONTENT be PROMINENT. And if the sentences have meaning they need no further embellishment.
    P.S.: tried to restart video again - nope - it is just too annoying, not even for 4 minutes to extract the meaning out of the sound salad.

  • @martinarnold5239
    @martinarnold5239 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I don't think we need a state at all so i object to trotskyism on that basis. I don't aspire to authoritarian societies, even socialist ones. I'd rather the workers controlled the means of production than the state.

    • @martinarnold5239
      @martinarnold5239 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      *****
      yep

    • @martinarnold5239
      @martinarnold5239 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *****
      i don't think we need authority. Unfortunately Trotsky and Lenin advocated that as a means to communism. Corbyn is also aadocating authority and while he insists on using the current political system he's going to get nowhere.

    • @Skiamakhos
      @Skiamakhos 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      from what I've read of Trotskyism it doesn't seem a million miles away from the kind of anarcho-socialism they tried in Spain in the '30s: self-organising communes sending delegates up to assemblies with instructions from the grassroots on how to vote etc. I've read way more about anarchism than Trotskyism though - what's the real difference, like, for the non-expert like me; what's the sticking point?

    • @martinarnold5239
      @martinarnold5239 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Skiamakhos
      The argument seems to be that Trotsky was an authoritarian who used the red army to kill people, including anarchists. Like Lenin he sought to put himself about the working class by means of a vanguard party.

    • @Skiamakhos
      @Skiamakhos 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I can see the attraction of vanguardism - a lot of the time no revolution will happen if you wait for a majority of the working class to get to that point unless there's a massive education initiative to clue Average Jo(e) up to the possible alternatives to their current exploitation, (so, quicker to just have at it & say "Follow us, folks!") but then if you're to preserve any kind of participatory democracy as soon as the revolution's achieved you need to severely limit the Party's remit & abilities. I think the CNT-FAI got things fairly much right in that respect: it's in their constitution, limits at every level to stop any elite emerging.

  • @Interlocutor67
    @Interlocutor67 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lev Bronstein was insane.

  • @fatalism5866
    @fatalism5866 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Silly attack on so-called "stalinists" though, completely devaluing the importance of socialist countries! "Socialism in one country" doesn't boil down to "Lenin/Stalin was nasty and wanted to foment a siege mentality", it's their recognition of the need to develop a revolution and defend the gains of the revolution rather than just abandoning it as soon as any difficulty develops (as trots would have them do!)

    • @JacquiBerryausterityblows
      @JacquiBerryausterityblows  8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Fatalism not silly, actually very necessary in understanding the basis of the brutal bureaucratic relationships.

  • @peskyquietman7593
    @peskyquietman7593 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great informative video comrade. Up the peaceful revolution :0)

    • @JohnKobaRuddy
      @JohnKobaRuddy 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good luck with your peaceful revolution against the kind of people who drop bombs on children! And then lie about it to millions, for thousands of pounds or dollars

  • @completelyonline6732
    @completelyonline6732 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this music annoying

  • @thesupremegodofcapitalism4359
    @thesupremegodofcapitalism4359 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Better dead than red...

    • @ensteffo
      @ensteffo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Capitalist Crusader Who needs you!

  • @themasses3953
    @themasses3953 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Terrorism and Communism by Leon Trotsky was the most authoritarian thing he ever wrote and stalin loved it. dont get me wrong trotsky was better than stalin in many aspects but he made book long fuck ups

  • @organicunity2119
    @organicunity2119 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Someone bring me a pickaxe

  • @pjblair31
    @pjblair31 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've just listened to the VT,and I'm not going to get personal or spiteful,but I do not agree with the views I've just heard,but I do the a tonne of respect for uploading it,and if you believe that,that's your choice,my view is this.... Socialism,plain and simple, DOESN'T WORK,and the main reason being is,I believe,your average man/women in the street will or should by human nature-want to "better themselves", socialism will hold you back,deep down,most of us want to get on and earn money,and aspire to progress.Labour today under Corbyn are he'll bent on going back in time,the problem is,you can't turn back the hands of time.....I'm a married dad of two,I work bloody hard,I don't and hopefully never will want hand outs or freebies,my wife works P/T and we provide for our kids,we have a mortgage,it's hard,but I'm not complaining-a Labour government would knacker me,I would have SO much to lose,it scares the shit out of me,I'm not a student wanting uni for free,or on the dole wanting benefits left,right and centre,or not am I an immigrant (who Labour love),as they are buying votes,any immigrant coming to the UK under a Corbyn government is BOUND to vote for him,so it's in Labours interest to let more and more in,yet it's nigh on impossible to get a doctor appointment,or a dentist,and where do we house all the immigrants,we need cast iron controlled immigration,and we need to kick out nutters and radicals who are a threat to national security,of you come to these shores with skills and a positive attitude,your welcome with open arms,if you come here but you don't want to mix or live in a western culture,and don't speak English,add nothing to the country,but sponge off it,please stay in your country of origin,or seek an alternative country where your views or lifestyle maybe better suited.

  • @luxemburgismwithhalf-asian2145
    @luxemburgismwithhalf-asian2145 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    H e l l o

  • @definitiveentertainment1658
    @definitiveentertainment1658 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why the hell don’t you make videos anymore? There are no Trotskyites on TH-cam..it’s bull

  • @nationalnationalism8885
    @nationalnationalism8885 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Every time somebody says that Trotsky was a racist; I grow closer and closer to Daddy-Trotsky.