{"id":1278,"date":"2023-08-20T11:44:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T11:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/08\/20\/trotskys-faith-in-man\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T11:44:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T11:44:06","slug":"trotskys-faith-in-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/08\/20\/trotskys-faith-in-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Trotsky&#8217;s Faith in Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"subtitle\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">On 20 August 1940, the long arm of Joseph Stalin finally reached Trotsky in exile in Mexico City when an agent of Stalin drove an ice axe into Trotsky&#39;s skull. He died the next day.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">It makes no sense to put your faith in Man, as <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/trotskys-faith-in-man\">I argue<\/a> in a 2021 <em>Substack<\/em> entry.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 20 August 1940, the long arm of Joseph Stalin finally reached Trotsky in exile in Mexico City when an agent of Stalin drove an ice axe into Trotsky&#39;s skull. He died the next day. It makes no sense to put your faith in Man, as I argue in a 2021 Substack entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191,102,457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-and-theism","category-communism","category-utopianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}