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- The point of a State is so 100,000 Trotskyists don't die -> I always wonder. if I invoke the idea of "killing Trotsky is bad" enough, and do enough to hammer in the idea that Trotsky making a mistake can kill Trotsky and Trotsky making the right decision can save Trotsky, will blue anarchists ever start thinking and listening. are inexplicably popular images everyone brings up as 'obvious' fables about the human experience enough, or not. how much do I have to dumb everything down before blue and charcoal anarchists finally get it.
I think David Graeber's books are somewhat illustrative. you do have to make things so simple that they seem eternal, and like they could have been discovered 5,000 years ago. it would be a point in the anarchists' favor if they'd bring up science more because physics is one of the only things that really has been about the same for 5,000 years. but it is what it is.
yeah. I don't get why anarchists are so bent on being anarchist, and why they wouldn't be intrigued by the concept Trotsky can save himself rather than going for help to people in other countries that are largely going to contain anticommunists that exploit him. if they're so obsessed with freedom and independence wouldn't it be way better for Trotsky not to depend on First World empires and to gain independence by creating Trotskyism in one country? if he doesn't succeed at that he has no freedom, period.
