askchapo

The USSR's overthrow is not evidence that proletarian states / fortresses aren't the best vehicle to proceed towards socialism. The fact that the west had to devote so many resources to defeat it and so many other socialist attempts, but are still failing at stopping it's growth in other states, and consider AES the greatest threat, is a testament to it's correctness.

Not to mention the fact that the USSR still uplifted hundreds of millions of people out of hunger and poverty, something that certainly wouldn't have been possible had they followed trotsky's advice of "acheving communism through external and constant warfare" rather than building up your industrial base.

Trotsky's alternative was essentially to make permanent war on Europe, since he was dogmatic about adhering to marx's wrong prediction that, capitalism can only break in it's birthplaces. Lenin corrected this by showing that capitalism breaks at the weakest links in the chain, and the feudal -> socialist transition was far more common than capitalist -> socialist in the 20th century.

I suggest watching the video I linked above.