{"id":2933,"date":"2020-08-20T11:53:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T11:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/08\/20\/trotskys-faith-in-man-3\/"},"modified":"2020-08-20T11:53:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T11:53:21","slug":"trotskys-faith-in-man-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/08\/20\/trotskys-faith-in-man-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Trotsky&#8217;s Faith in Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;\">On this date in 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.&#0160; The Left eats its own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2019\/08\/trotskys-faith-in-man.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;\">Read the rest.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;\">The tragedy of Trotsky is that of a man of great theoretical and practical gifts who squandered his life pursuing a <em>fata morgana<\/em>.&#0160; His was not the opium of the religionists but the opium of the intellectuals, to allude to a title of Raymond Aron&#39;s. The latter species of opium I call <em>utopium<\/em>.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this date in 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.&#0160; The Left eats its own. Read the rest. The tragedy of Trotsky is that of a man of great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/08\/20\/trotskys-faith-in-man-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trotsky&#8217;s Faith in Man&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,39,163,165,338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism","category-human-predicament","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-political-nihilism","category-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933","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=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}