Youd think hed care more about the working class, huh?
John_Oakman on
A revolution requires large numbers of angry people, he’s just producing them for the upcoming revolution.
EnamelKant on
Someone should have introduced him to the business end of an icepick.
zig_zag-wanderer on
Redditors hate a communist leader for any of the actually bad stuff they did instead of some meaningless bullshit challenge: impossible
Extension-Ad8612 on
They always find ways to support the proletariat in ways that only benefit themselves. Interesting how that works.
Many-Excitement3246 on
I mean, the man was right in theory but wrong in execution. Tipping shouldn’t be necessary. But the way he went about it, he was just treating the workers badly for no reason, and being Jewish, they didn’t need any more people treating them badly for no reason.
crypticbru on
Hard to disagree
fireky2 on
I was under the impression tipping wasn’t the norm in America until the depression. Many Americans considered it kind of messed up to pay for better treatment, and employers would also consider it insulting that they don’t pay enough.
Trotsky was in America in 1917 so well before tipping became the entrenched norm
ogetarts on
They hated him for he spoke the truth. And they’re still stuck being paid slave wages a century later.
Kapitalist_Pigdog2 on
He could have simply not given the restaurant his business instead of punishing the employees lol
JohnWilsonWSWS on
One clean measure that the breakdown of capitalism is degenerating is the emergence of slanders against Marx, Lenin and Trotsky.
How many people think servers in the U.S. should be paid enough so they don’t depend on tips to survive?
The collaboration – political and organizational – between Lenin and Trotsky was crucial to the success of the insurrection in October 1917 and the building of the first workers’ state. That they failed to stop its degeneration is only blamed on them by those who wish to excuse the bureaucracy.
RECOMMENDED [Origins of the Left Opposition: Lenin’s Last Struggle, the fight against “Socialism In One Country”](https://youtu.be/PKejeIWagYI). (61 mins)
NeilJosephRyan on
Wonderful ideology; shit in a diaper execution.
Srsly, it’s like this guy was asking to get stabbed.
zig_zag-wanderer on
If you believe this story I have a bridge to sell you.
From the author of a book which ended up correcting this silly story, https://dairyrestauranthistory.com/corrections-to-the-dairy-restaurant.html
“on page 208 – Corrections to Trotsky section.
In the winter of 1917, Leon Trotsky spent ten weeks in New York City. Upon his return to Europe and rise to world fame as a key participant in the Bolshevik revolution, countless spurious legends surrounding his time in the city were promulgated by the popular press and individuals with strong feelings about the revolution. An impossible number of Lower East Side restaurateurs claimed him as a regular customer, he was rumored to have worked as a movie extra and as a restaurant dishwasher. In some reports, he was transformed into a New York-born Jew who made it good in Russia. One often heard legend, passed down as family lore, centered around his ideological objection to tipping restaurant waiters and their retaliation through poor service, insults and the spilling hot soup. The unvarying repetition of details suggests a yet-to-be-discovered common source. This legend eventually found print form as a humorous piece of historical fiction with anti-Communist overtones that appeared in a 1965 issue of Esquire magazine. This clearly fictitious account somehow found its way into recent academic studies of Trotsky and his time in New York City. In this story, he had vegetarian leanings and took most of his meals in dairy restaurants — his favorite being the Triangle Dairy Restaurant (see page 411) on Wilkins Avenue in the East Bronx near his family’s rented apartment. There’s no evidence of Trotsky having vegetarian leanings. During his last years in Mexico, he kept rabbits and chickens as pets that eventually found their way to a plate on his dining room table. Had Trotsky spent as much time in restaurants, incidentally stiffing waiters, as these “eyewitnesses” accounts suggest, he would have had little time for the research and journalism that he was actually engaged in during his time in New York City.”
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Youd think hed care more about the working class, huh?
A revolution requires large numbers of angry people, he’s just producing them for the upcoming revolution.
Someone should have introduced him to the business end of an icepick.
Redditors hate a communist leader for any of the actually bad stuff they did instead of some meaningless bullshit challenge: impossible
They always find ways to support the proletariat in ways that only benefit themselves. Interesting how that works.
I mean, the man was right in theory but wrong in execution. Tipping shouldn’t be necessary. But the way he went about it, he was just treating the workers badly for no reason, and being Jewish, they didn’t need any more people treating them badly for no reason.
Hard to disagree
I was under the impression tipping wasn’t the norm in America until the depression. Many Americans considered it kind of messed up to pay for better treatment, and employers would also consider it insulting that they don’t pay enough.
Trotsky was in America in 1917 so well before tipping became the entrenched norm
They hated him for he spoke the truth. And they’re still stuck being paid slave wages a century later.
He could have simply not given the restaurant his business instead of punishing the employees lol
One clean measure that the breakdown of capitalism is degenerating is the emergence of slanders against Marx, Lenin and Trotsky.
How many people think servers in the U.S. should be paid enough so they don’t depend on tips to survive?
The collaboration – political and organizational – between Lenin and Trotsky was crucial to the success of the insurrection in October 1917 and the building of the first workers’ state. That they failed to stop its degeneration is only blamed on them by those who wish to excuse the bureaucracy.
RECOMMENDED [Origins of the Left Opposition: Lenin’s Last Struggle, the fight against “Socialism In One Country”](https://youtu.be/PKejeIWagYI). (61 mins)
Wonderful ideology; shit in a diaper execution.
Srsly, it’s like this guy was asking to get stabbed.
If you believe this story I have a bridge to sell you.
From the author of a book which ended up correcting this silly story, https://dairyrestauranthistory.com/corrections-to-the-dairy-restaurant.html
“on page 208 – Corrections to Trotsky section.
In the winter of 1917, Leon Trotsky spent ten weeks in New York City. Upon his return to Europe and rise to world fame as a key participant in the Bolshevik revolution, countless spurious legends surrounding his time in the city were promulgated by the popular press and individuals with strong feelings about the revolution. An impossible number of Lower East Side restaurateurs claimed him as a regular customer, he was rumored to have worked as a movie extra and as a restaurant dishwasher. In some reports, he was transformed into a New York-born Jew who made it good in Russia. One often heard legend, passed down as family lore, centered around his ideological objection to tipping restaurant waiters and their retaliation through poor service, insults and the spilling hot soup. The unvarying repetition of details suggests a yet-to-be-discovered common source. This legend eventually found print form as a humorous piece of historical fiction with anti-Communist overtones that appeared in a 1965 issue of Esquire magazine. This clearly fictitious account somehow found its way into recent academic studies of Trotsky and his time in New York City. In this story, he had vegetarian leanings and took most of his meals in dairy restaurants — his favorite being the Triangle Dairy Restaurant (see page 411) on Wilkins Avenue in the East Bronx near his family’s rented apartment. There’s no evidence of Trotsky having vegetarian leanings. During his last years in Mexico, he kept rabbits and chickens as pets that eventually found their way to a plate on his dining room table. Had Trotsky spent as much time in restaurants, incidentally stiffing waiters, as these “eyewitnesses” accounts suggest, he would have had little time for the research and journalism that he was actually engaged in during his time in New York City.”