[Great Smell of Brut]

Trot organsations in the West tend to betray their feollow progressives in the mddle east and often back the very worst sort of religious conservative.
Tyical is the SW of the UK who back the free market/ Religious conservative Erdogan over the secular centre left parties. They also back Islmaists n Bangladesh over secular leftists.

Why would they do that?

I back social liberals with centre right economics wherever they are.

[Potemkin]

Trot organsations in the West tend to betray their feollow progressives in the mddle east and often back the very worst sort of religious conservative.
Tyical is the SW of the UK who back the free market/ Religious conservative Erdogan over the secular centre left parties. They also back Islmaists n Bangladesh over secular leftists.

This is correct.

Why would they do that?

They're middle-class British Trotskyites. Who the fuck knows what's going through their minds?

Question: What's the last thing that went through Leon Trotsky's mind?

Answer: An icepick.

[Dagoth Ur]

Trotskyist geopolitics, or the lack of a coherent version of any, is precisely why I stopped being a Trot. That said communists support who is progressive in the region, not the team we'd necessarily like to support. Like the Emir of Afghanistan.

[The Immortal Goon]

I don't know these specific cases, but Trotsky was a Leninist. Leninists do not try to evolve into socialism, but know that revolution is the only way to make it happen. Often the fight against imperialism is more important than a mild victory of a pet issue. Hence Lenin rejected taking a side in World War I, even if Russia was the most backward monarchy in Europe.

The world, however, still remains very heterogeneous. The coercive imperialism of advanced nations is able to exist only because backward nations, oppressed nationalities, colonial and semicolonial countries, remain on our planet. The struggle of the oppressed peoples for national unification and national independence is doubly progressive because, on the one side, this prepares more favorable conditions for their own development, while, on the other side, this deals blows to imperialism. That, in particular, is the reason why, in the struggle between a civilized, imperialist, democratic republic and a backward, barbaric monarchy in a colonial country, the socialists are completely on the side of the oppressed country notwithstanding its monarchy and against the oppressor country notwithstanding its “democracy.”