Most Trotskyists were probably introduced to socialism by their highschool history class curriculum because Trotskyism is often packaged as ‘the good socialism that was betrayed’ from what I’ve seen from American public schooling.
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you do though - indirectly via Orwell
Yeah, if you've read Animal Farm you're at least familiar with Orwell's feelings on the matter which, considering his talent and the stress on AF and 1984 as anticommunist lit, can carry some force
