> I love it when Trots turn their critical eye to culture. It's when
> their idealist, reactionary politics become more obvious.
On 2010-03-17, at 5:07 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
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> So, for instance, Lost in Translation--which no doubt in
> the Trot imagination is a hideous example of bourgeois
> decadence...
[…]
> Obviously this appeals to Trots and socialists more generally, but
> there's a reason no likes socialism anymore.
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As an ex-Trotskyist, I'm confident in my ability to identify distinctive formulations which might point to Walsh's Trotskyist sympathies. Apart from his side reference to the "Stalinist" Communist Party, which I doubt by itself is the cause of Eric's palpable distress, there's nothing in the piece to indicate that Walsh is a Trotskyist other than that it is appears on a Trotskyist web site .
Eric could clear up any confusion by citing those statements in the article which could only be made by someone writing from a Trotskyist perspective.
On second thought, he need not bother. It's evident from poor Eric's comments that that "Trotskyist" is a proxy for "socialist", and that the criticism of contemporary culture presented in the article, so he believes, is "a reason why no one likes socialism any more."