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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
Trotsky made some of the most important additions to Marxist action.
These anarchists are angry at Trotsky's antagonism to anarchists, not at their brutal repression. These were times where propaganda of the deed was the manner anarchists conducted their actions. Anyone in any place in the political spectrum would kill if it somehow helped their ideology.
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The repression of anarchists under the Bolshevik government goes back far further back than the Kronstadt rebellion or any other uprising against the state, individual or otherwise, such as the Cheka repression of anarchists in Petrograd in 1918, which Trotsky was directly part of, as well as the arrests, imprisonments and executions of thousands of suspected anti-Bolshevik political figures on the left in mid-1918. Trotsky was an authoritarian despot who helped to nurture the absurd notion of right-wing socialism and repress the peasantry that he claimed to be fighting for, as well as the executions and indefinite imprisonments that followed the repression of said peasantry; what's defensible about the Bolshevik actions? The reaction to anarchist individual terrorism (I think that propaganda of the deed is an almost totally futile gesture, by the by) was that of any violent, totalitarian government trying to retain power, it has no legitimacy. Trotsky's actions as part of the Bolshevik government are entirely reprehensible, the Kronstadt uprising is simply a tiny piece of that larger puzzle and it's baffling that you're trying to defend him when it's obvious that he was a cunt.
Also, why have you got this weird notion that they're angry about Trotsky teasing anarchists rather than angry for the reasons that they give? I don't see why they'd lie about their motivations.