"Never suggested that Corbyn WAS suggesting adoption of Trotsky's policies"
Then Trotsy is no more than a red herring in this discussion
His name crops up enough in realtion to the Labour party
Your rest is a stupidly distorted account of the time when Trades Unions (which are for more democratically organised and answerable to their membership that any political body is) were acting on behalf of their members in response to politicians and economic undermining of the rights and living standards of their members
There were two sides to what happened in the seventies - right wing clowns like you never regard that working people might actually have an opinion worth considering in those events.
Thatchers's mob came to power on the slogan "Labour isn't working" and added a million or so to the dole queues
The "shambles of the seventies" was followed by the systematic of dismantling of British industry, destruction of communities around those industries and the creation of a two-nation Britain sharply divided into those with jobs and a future and those without.
You shower of bollocks carefully ignore the current situation which is, if Britain is ever to be independent, it has to return to the pre-Thatcher era and start from scratch in giving Britain an industrial base - and that has to include giving working people a voice in their own lives.
As it is, all Britain can decide today is who to be dependent on
"pet "hobby-horse""
Total load of shite
It is a "pet" nothing; he mentioned it in passing and as never taken it any further - (or maybe he is holding secret classes in Trotskyism that we don't know about"
This really is stereotyping garbage.
Anyone serious about politics learns from past achievements and mistakes - whether you are a socialist, a Marxist, a supporter of the present system or whatever
Politicians go tho the past for their inspiration - Thatcher's inspiration was J M Keynes (a contemporary of Trotsky)
If you have an argument put it and stop spouting propagandist rhetoric
Jim Carroll