TobyBartels comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TobyBartels 03 September 2010 01:54:53AM 3 points [-]

Most of the Trotskyist groups from the 1930s to the 1960s also adopted democratic centralism, but they infamously split all the time. Of course, Trotskyists are selected (amongst Leninists) as those willing to defect from the majority.

Comment author: taw 03 September 2010 03:55:01AM 1 point [-]

Trotsky was a total Slytherin, just see how many times he switched sides even before the revolution.