When the World Socialist Web Site, the online organ of the Trotskyite International Committee of the Fourth International, publishes a report openly assailing the American “woke,” and their associated “oppressed minority” renegade groupings, over their egregious assaults on America’s foundations, you should pause and give the disciples of good ole Trotsky a pat on the back.
Trotsky, whom Lenin measured the most capable to succeed him as the leader of the Soviet “revolution” [read: the Bolshevik coup d’etat] was the true intellectual of the early Bolsheviks and the father of the Red Army.
Outmaneuvered and expelled from the party by Stalin and sent into permanent exile, he continued his opposition to what he termed “the degenerated workers’ state” in the USSR established by Stalin—and pushed for all Trotskyists to instead put their energies in organizing the proletariat, i.e. the city-based broader working class, for the full frontal assault on the bourgeoisie.
Trotsky was acutely aware of the need to protect the “revolution” from any action that could, even inadvertently, strengthen the enemy (i.e. the ‘capitalist’ class comprising the hereditary rich, the factory owners, the ‘reactionary’ inteligencia etc., etc.) and dedicated much of his writing to devising strategies protecting the “revolution” from ill-conceived tactics that could backfire en route to the socialist paradise.
It thus comes as no surprise that modern Fourth Internationalists would take a dim view of the American “woke,” whose actions are seen as gifts to the “Right opposition.” And it is a historical irony that Trotskyites, no friends of the “capitalist” abomination, would put forth perfectly sane tactical observations that highlight the politically loser “woke” wrecking game—which could lead the US into a new civil war the “woke” could come to regret.
Long but extremely interesting read.
The removal of Jefferson’s statue is a gift to the political right
New York City will remove from City Hall a nearly two-hundred-year-old statue of Thomas Jefferson, allegedly on the grounds that the author of the immortal phrase, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” owned slaves.
The removal of the Jefferson statue was ratified unanimously Monday afternoon at a hastily scheduled hearing of an 11-person committee called the Public Design Commission. The hitherto obscure committee is hand-picked and appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The so-called “hearing” was a sham. The decision had already been taken. A wooden crate had even been constructed especially for the purpose of remanding Jefferson to the New York Historical Society “on long term loan,” an Orwellian expression for mothballing. The Commission did not formally commit to that destination at its Monday hearing, and there are also calls to junk the sculpture outright. “I think it should be put in storage somewhere, destroyed or whatever,” said Democratic State Assemblyman Charles Barron in testimony to the commission.
The Jefferson statue, which has stood at New York City Hall since 1834, is the original plaster model used for the bronze sculpture Thomas Jefferson in the Capitol Rotunda, in Washington D.C., created by the world-renowned French sculptor, David D’Angers (1788-1856). Both statues were donated to the American people by Uriah Phillips Levy (1792-1862), the country’s first Jewish naval officer. With his gifts, Levy wished to recognize Jefferson, who had died seven years earlier, for his role in preventing the establishment of a state religion in the young republic.