#3 J. Posadas's Apocalyptic Communism
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The Importance of Trotsky
He grew up in Buenos Aires really poor with I think like eight or nine siblings. So, so when it comes to talking about the working class, unlike a lot of communists, this guy is not laughing. He truly understood what it meant to do a shitload of manual labor for next to know pay live in horrible cramped conditions. And he's a lot of Trotsky. This will be a recurring thing. His comrades never considered him much of a theoretician. Unusually enthusiastic when it came to trotters, but was never, never really said to be. A particularly deep thinker when it come to Marxism. In the readings we did that did become apparent.
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