User:RD/9k/the only correct thing Trotsky said (Q28,93)

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the only correct thing Trotsky ever said
/ the only good claim Trotsky ever made -> a dumb joke I keep making in things which is funny because there is always more than one of these. but there's also the question of whether any of the "correct" things Trotsky said are correct in context, or if they all come with a subtext of being completely misapplied to the point that saying "the only correct thing Trotsky ever said" is funny again. that's just the thing, how long it takes to properly unpack a concept like this to the point there could be a whole page about it.
the only correct thing Trotsky ever said / the one correct thing Rosa Luxemburg said / one of the only correct things Ted Grant said / the few correct things Hayashi Hiroyoshi said / the one thing Alan Woods somehow got right / one of the points James P. Cannon was accurate on -> (these are just synonyms that would be the same sentence, and not actual assessments of them)

The working class is not merely one constituency among many in the struggle against capitalism (David North; Trotskyism onto post-Marxism) [1]
What is analyzed is accounted for
/ To take documents "into consideration" does not mean to take them at their face value. Marx has said that it is impossible to judge either parties or peoples by what they say about themselves. [...] If, for example, we began to take as pure gold the innumerable proclamations of [... pick one: Kronstadt / early Trotskyism] we would have to recognize these gentlemen as fervent friends of socialism. But in reality they are its perfidious enemies (Trotsky 1938) [2] / (9k) -> A) correct statement about Materialism B) backhandedly true statement by Trotsky about himself.