User:RD/9k/Acknowledge Trotsky (Q40,18)

Main entry

697. Q697/Q697

     Stalinists will acknowledge Trotsky

     / They'll have to acknowledge Trotsky / They'll have to talk about Trotsky someday (Alan Woods)

Ideologies or fields

618. Q618/Q618 IV (pronounced Fourth) / Trotskyism
618. Q618/Q618 IV (pronounced Fourth) / International Marxist Tendency
618. Q618/Q618 IV (pronounced Fourth) / Revolutionary Communist International (2024)
618. Q618/Q618 IV (pronounced Fourth) / Alan Woods

Description of misplaced example

• I am madly trying to find a video. there was this video by the IMT, and Alan Woods is on a stage. the overall room looks kind of bluish. it's kind of like he's giving a TED Talk (pronounced Ted talk) or something. and he says, he says something to the effect of "They're going to have to talk about Trotsky someday. [glib, barely not winking]". I cannot find this video for the life of me. does anybody have any idea where it went (2023-12-06)
• Alan Woods is on a raised stage speaking to what might be a large room.
• He is not at a lectern. I think he was standing up able to walk across the stage and was not seated, but I am not sure. I somewhat remember the the camera pointed so he is facing diagonally left.
• Either the room or the backdrop of the stage looks vaguely bluish. I am not sure if it was a projector with a blue image on it, or some kind of textured acoustic wall like they have in some theater rooms (stage plays) or a news show set which was blue. In one video where he has a discussion with Pakistani TV (2012), the backdrop is about the right color, but I think the room was more open than that. [1] [2]
• The overall topic of the talk might have been about defending the legacy of Trotskyism against Stalinists or something, though I don't remember what it was exactly.
  • It is possible but not certainly the case that this was a "closing remarks" talk for an IMT summer or winter school event. I have looked at some of those but haven't found it yet.
• He says a particular quote about the idea that Stalinists will one day have to acknowledge Trotsky. This is the one thing about the video that "matters", and that I'm the most certain about.
• I'm reasonably sure the quote is one of either: "they're going to have to talk about Trotsky some day" (or "someday") / "they're going to have to talk about Trotsky one day" / "they'll have to talk about Trotsky one day" / "The Stalinists ... are going to have to talk about Trotsky one of these days"
• The video was most likely posted some time between 2012 and 2022, but definitely before December 2023.