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#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special
Lex Fridman Podcast
Trotsky and the White Pill
When things start going wrong, they always have to have scapegoats. And of course, for Stalin, Trotsky later, but throughout, as you write, seemed to almost take on a supernatural character. Everything that went wrong in the USSR was due not just to his views, but to his direct orders from abroad. George Orwell brilliantly portrayed Trotsky as a snowball in animal farm and is this embodiment of this evil that will always have to be fighting.
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