I actually have the least brain damage that it's possible to have. People don't believe it! But I say just look at the results. No you can't see the results, what a nasty question
I want to see the clocks.
RELEASE the CLOCKS!
/c/cheetahtoohigh
Globally? Yeah, a few ships per day won't really put a dent in it. And a lot of places already are to a large degree. Even if there was an agreement right now, it would take a few months for supplies to catch up. But how you experience it depends on your geography and economy and governance.
Fundamentally, being a "Trotskyist" is about being opposed to "Stalinism" based on a few specific points. But all of that was so long ago (even the fall of the USSR was so long ago) that those are now historical debates instead of contemporary issues with relevance to current politics. You'll find Trotskyist groups with all kinds of different positions on current topics, just like most other tendencies.
A lot of Trotskyists are weirdos and cranks, because you kind of had to be one to be an active communist in the imperial core, that applies to all tendencies.
A lot of Trotskyists orgs have strange or counterproductive organizational habits, because they've been isolated and nearly-irrelevant politically for many decades, the same as the rest of the left. The same reason many became sectarian and dogmatic.
Like every tendancy, there are good orgs that are making real progress on figuring out their shit, and there are bad ones stuck in the various dead ends of their own historical experiences. PSL is formerly trots, most of the criticisms in this thread wouldn't apply to them. RCP(usa) is Maoist and most of these criticisms would apply anyway (just my opinion, no hate to their members). Sparticists used to be the most stereotypical ultra-trots, but they've spent some years making real progress on becoming normal. It depends on the org much more than the tendancy.
Scamming the middle class is the last remaining frontier for economic growth in the US. And after they're all broke they'll come up with some scapegoat and go completely fascist.
Convenient that they scheduled a specific date for the crash
There is a follow up post that answers my obvious question of "Why not just switch to a tty on your existing setup?" (Which seems more reasonable for most people) and also describes how research & writing fit together when effectively offline
I'm constantly shocked how some of these figures are not arrested.
The market price is everything, the physical reality of the entire world economy is irrelevant, it's the ultimate commodity fetishism
Also, left orgs should get better at finding each other jobs. I've been in a good handful of orgs and only one was ever effective at that (granted, that was pre-2008, so a little easier to do)
Does that count as mutual aid?
I'll believe he's mad when he does something about it