Dirty Communists: Difference between revisions

** Since then, the Communist parties in the West have been largely Trotskyist and claim that the Trotskyist parties of the Fourth International [[No True Scotsman|represent the only true Communism]] and that the Soviet government was actually State Capitalist. This is why the New Left in [[The Sixties]] was hostile to the rump Communist Party-US, which only gained traction during the period of US-Soviet friendship, and [[Misaimed Fandom|highly enamored]] of [[Mao Zedong|Chairman Mao]] instead.

*** Well, some of them were. Anarchists like Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky definitely weren't.

** This is actually the subtext of ''[[Animal Farm]]'', which [[George Orwell]] (a British socialist) wrote as a critique of the Soviet government's corruption of the Left, and totalitarianism in general. The pig representing Trotsky, a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|radical idealist]], is [[Released to Elsewhere|"disappeared"]] by the pig representing Stalin, who can be seen consorting with the plant owners at the end of the book.

* Considering in the [[Real Life|Real World]] most scholars are usually only divided on ''how many'' tens of millions of people were killed under various Communist rulers like, [[Josef Stalin|Stalin]] or [[Mao Zedong|Mao]], it wouldn't be difficult to find any number of real life figures who fit this trope to a T.