Nothing they said is serious or accurate. Maybe the newspaper thing, but the Bolsheviks sold newspapers too. No revolution has ever succeeded without counter - propaganda. Stalinists massacred Trotskyists in every instance mentioned and seized the editorial and propaganda apparatus developed by the trots, turning it into a mouthpiece of grasping bureaucrats.

Sectarian MLs hate trotskyists so that they dont have to feel bad about the unjust mass murder of us in every instance mentioned. Its total projection.

Edit: not all MLs are sectarians, but the ones who got their views from a podcast on Losurdo and uncritically parrot apologism are shameless and dangerous to our movements