And years later, he was still taking flack from the Trotskyite idiots.
His point about the very real big differences that come from small difference in a large, powerful system making real differences for millions of people to those who choose to live in reality instead of "in some seminar" is worth the time of hearing it. I've seen young Trots, they really aren't much more in touch with reality than the glum zombified, much younger Lyndon Larouche cultists who used to annoy poeple at shopping plazas around here. His cult is still going, even though at 93 he's not going through the motions of running for president he's still declaring "I Intend to Shape the Government of the United States". Really, not much of a difference between that and what Jill Stein's cultists in the Green Party fraud pretend to believe. I'm coming to see such "third parties" those that involve getting or making money as being essentially con jobs to bilk suckers into giving money that goes into the hands of "party" officials and feeding the egos of their figure heads. Certainly, by now, the crack pottery of both isn't believed in, even by those high up in the paid staff. As with WikiLeaks, the best way to see them are con jobs and organized criminal enterprises.
Update: No, I don't take any of that Marxist junk seriously, anymore. Looking at the history of Marxist movements, they either produce horrific totalitarian governments, from the worst such as North Korea now, China during the Cultural Revolution, the Soviet Union under Stalin to the least bad, such as Cuba under Castro or they produce idiotic splinter cults in the scores and hundreds, the worst of those making total assholes of themselves as they act as useful tools for corporate fascism.
I'm not going to be romantic about Communism, there are too many bodies and skeletons in the way. Would you, living here in the United States, want the government here to adopt the mainstream of policies of any of those? I don't think you'd even, really, like the educational or medical policy under Castro, though that is probably the only real area in which they have much to recommend. The control of information and expression, things that even the worst Stalinists will whine and moan about here, is far more restricted there.
Marxism is dead. I've recommended the book by James Weinstein, The Long Detour, a study of how the American left fell into the pathetic state it has gotten into. Weinstein didn't dare say it but the real problem was Marx, who, as a scientistic materialst, had no belief in or appreciation for what democracy is made of and the possibilities of it. Today, in 2016, even the Communists don't believe in Marx. The Trots are among the most obnoxious and irrational of the current Marxists as the questioner in the second video demonstrates. They, along with other such assholes have their greatest goal in getting attention as the most leftist in any aggregation they inflict themselves on, black block anarchists and the such.
Anyone who might be sympathetic to the real left, those who promote egalitarian democracy, economic democracy, the spirit of democracy in good will and fairness, must think that leftists who tolerate the infliction of Marxists on leftists movements are either stupid or are a fraud. Marxism in reality was and is still being given the test of time and it is not only at least as bad as capitalism, it is, in most ways, far worse. No one in their right mind would want it. Marxists' appropriation of the word "socialism". no less than the Nazi appropriation of the word, has totally discredited it. That is how Americans who, when presented with the ideas of real socialism, will favor those while considering "socialism" as if it were the equivalent of Nazism.
I don't think the highest goal of the left should be the sustenance of the feelings of old or young lefties who really, truly, believed with all of their hearts in their various cults of the dead past. The kinds of elderly Busters as seen in one of the videos I posted the other day are a mild version of that. The ridiculous nostalgia for Marxisms in any or all of their ever warring, ever splitting sects and cults is no less absurd than the nostalgia for some of the most brutal, genocidal dictatorships of the 20th century or what is probably the greatest locus of the most brutal, terror contained slavery today, North Korea (which the Sparticists have a particularly tender regard for).
Dump the Marxists, there will be no progress towards egalitarian democracy with that gargantuan burden on us, they deserve no more consideration than the Nazis do, they really aren't much different from them. The Sparticists are some of the stupidest, most ridiculous and most obnoxious of them all. Trots, here and elsewhere, are and have been some of the worst assholes that afflict the left.
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