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#151 - The Joy of Sects VI: The IMT

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The History of Trotskyism

The IMT specifically traces their heritage to the militant tendency in Britain. The relationship that just generic Trotskyism has with the Russian Revolution, right, as this sort of great historic rapturous event that needs to be studied and replicated. They also kind of have with this much more pitiful like sect in Britain who had a brief period of success, but then got kicked out of the Labour Party and split and disintegrated. So it's a weird impasse where at least like historic Trotskyism, there was some creative potential. But at this point it's just so formulaic like attempting to replicate what this sect in Britain did in the 80s,. which was attempting to replicatewhat the Bolsheviks

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