just saw a book stand named "Revolutionary Spark"
just saw a book stand named "Revolutionary Spark"
Named after Iskra, but not a single book by Lenin, 3 by Trotksy and even a couple anarchists. This is the trend among university "communists" over here. If a revolution was successful, it must've not been a real revolution, except for the aesthetics.
There's something of a conspiracy theory that US government started to specifically promote Trotskyism after the 1950's to preemptively defang the growing popularity of communism
yes, right after stalin passed away and khrushchov secret speech, the worst part is that it worked. communists parties all around enrolled in unproductive debates about stalin vs trotsky and the possibility of a better and idyllic socialism under trotsky ideas, oppose to the "stalinist war socialism"
Do you remember the name of their newspaper? Selling books from Trotsky and anarchist stuff is weird. Thats a contradiction and shows the theoretical confusion of that group
They didn't seem to have any other name, but it was some university kid thing. They love to pick random names and sell books (at gigantic prices) that are vaguely "left."
This sounds more like hucksters pretending to be Marxists and trying to oversell books. I'm really not a fan of books that are available for free on the internet being sold way too high. If they are translations, no problem. But offering "What is to be done" for 30€, as an example, would be absolutely usurious.