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    21 hours ago

    Michael Hudson

    i’m surprised he’s made the list; i thought he was a useless trotskyist.

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      21 hours ago

      He isn’t useless, he often makes good points. He isn’t as good as Lenin, or modern Marxist-Leninists, but his analysis in Super-Imperialism is useful, even with his biases.

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        18 hours ago

        madeline pendelton described trotskyism as effectively useless because they’ve never been successful historically and i guess i took that to mean that they were useless in general.

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          Trotskyism is often just Marxism-Leninism, but anti-AES for nonsense reasons IMO. Some Trotskyist critique of capitalism and imperialism is good still, and Hudson is one of the better ones, though not perfect by any stretch. Trotskyism isn’t a particularly coherent ideology at a theoretical level, and is mostly distinguished by what it opposes.