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How come you say that?
There the USSR fell, and if I understand correctly trotski helped plant one of the seeds helping the underlying positive communal energies of the region to withstand the nearly unmatched American oppression. They might have done it without him. However he contributed to something there. If the results are stronger the implication is his theory was stronger and I have to reconsider prior assumptions about the whole situation. Having not really critically investigated this I cannot say to what extend this is a real factor or not. However given that this is a phenomenon I do not understand I am infact obligated to investigate and revaluate my understandings. Does that sound like a reasonable thought process? I haven't exactly figured it out myself yet.
Sorry, I don't mean this with any disrespect but I'm not following your point at all. USSR was unpopular in Mexico or didn't have any influence but Trotsky's visit was the thing that grew Mexican Left politics which maybe led to MORENA?
Either he was right Mexico was the good place for a revolutionary to go because the area had good energy to work with. Or his legacy and the general spread of trosktist cadres helped in some way. If either is true I systematically undervalued his contributions to orthodox theory and I need to read more. It could be neither but at this point I am not well ready enough to say with any level of certainty
That's fair. Like everyone, it's totally possible that Trotsky had some decent ideas and a lot of terrible ones though. Just like it's possible that Stalin did a lot of good things and made some mistakes—like stopping at Berlin.