Canem,
Aboriginality is not a political position.
Trotskyism is a subset of communism.

Posted by Aidan-

Canem,
Aboriginality is not a political position.
Trotskyism is a subset of communism.

Answer-

Many Trotskyist Organisations- often they seem to call themselves Socialist consider that Communism has never been tried- perhaps because they have a blind spot- they can't believe that their principles don't work. Many decades ago socialists/ communists started to dominate worker organisations such as the working mens clubs.

But Trotsky as a national leader would have been much worse than Stalin.

It's strange that perhaps persons of notorious interest linked with the Aboriginal community seem to be linked also with Communist principles or paradigms. Communists believe that the nation state (and eventually "world communism") is responsible for them.

Some (Ayn Rand, Nietzsche, Aristotle, Patrick Deneen) have equated this with the Priestly/ Beggers/ Thieves/ Slaves/ Victims Code as opposed to those that just want to be allowed to create their own living. Nietzsche called this the Knightly Code supporting the morality of self sufficiency, resilience, strength, enterprise, integrity, greatness. Not all of those espousing the Knightly Code are genuine- many that aspire to the Knightly Code don't make it. But essentially the point of the Knightly code is to produce enough to sustain- this is in principle achievable by manufacturing- if the government stays out of the way. Everyone can dry vegetables and store for the winter of discontent, everyone can get oats to store for the winter of discontent, everyone can limit their excesses, everyone can teach the young, everyone can support/ sell goods and services to each other for the common wealth, everyone can afford to live in a safe/ hygienic house- even if it's a mud house- mud comes from the ground- water comes from the sky, everyone can think and plan for themselves- if the government stays out of the way- mostly the government should only be used between groups of people- at different scales of the political/ cultural hierarchy- not within groups of people.

Governments at different levels should control the size of their own populations if they becomes a threat against their neighbours.

Bob Whittacker said that he learned as a child that communism was about the workers and farmers living according to enlightened principles created by academic ideologues. He said he laughed- I do too when I think that Communists are trying to get you believe that giving up your own power to world communism will help you survive.

Mao was much worse than Stalin too but sadly appears to be very influential in the world today because we didn't recognise or act on the threat- our inaction appears poised for hundreds of millions of dead