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>>6280474
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>>6132652
>Every single thing Stalin got right he took from Trotsky.
That's very hard to believe, he was writing communist theory since before the revolution.

> Planned industrialization was also at first a Trotskyite concept, despite Stalin stubbornly standing against it for the first years.
It was hardly unique to Trotsky, and there's decent reason to believe that Stalin supported the NEP primarily to gain Lenin's favor (it worked enough), since he reversed his position as soon as he had power.
>Allowing capitalism to remain alive in the countryside is what caused the famine in the 30's
That's very debatable, and you certainly can't say Stalin didn't try as hard as he could to reverse Lenin's concession to private enterprise.

>Let's not even get into WW2. Stalinists believe Nazi Germany would "fall" on its own somehow, and Trotsky said the Soviet Union should strike first while Germany was busy with France.
Don't you really think that would have been a good idea? I mean, think about it, the original Russian Revolution was largely caused by Russians fighting in a war they didn't want to fight in. Fighting a defensive war against German is one thing, but starting one is really asking for trouble from the Russian people.

>I literally cannot think of a single good thing Stalin did that Trotsky wouldn't have done earlier and better.