Yes, what a jerk he was, when he led the Red Army to defeat the White Reaction. Only a jerk would ever have committed himself to the armed overthrow of capitalist reaction. And what a jerk, to object to protest at the Stalinisation of the Communist Party, to risk all to expose its barbarities. How lucky we are to have a giant like Matthias Wasser and not a jerk like Leon Trotsky with us today.