re: #196 HappyWarrior

I guess what it was with Trotsky is a belief that Stalin twisted Communism and the dreams of the revolution but yeah I am not that big on Trotsky either. Wasn’t the character of Snowball in Animal Farm loosely based off of him? I think that led to my brief Trotsky admiration. I really don’t know much about him but perhaps I’ll learn more this semester since my Russian history class covers his whole life in Russia (1880-1930) Still need to decide a topic to write on though since this is the class I am writing my big paper on for my history degree.

Yes, Snowball was based on Trotsky, just as the wise old pig from the beginning was based on Marx (was it a pig? It’s been a while since I read it). Don’t forget that Orwell himself was a socialist (don’t tell the freepers; their heads will explode), so his problem with the Soviet Union wasn’t it’s ideology, but it’s execution.