Leon Trotsky’s term ‘turnip’ is a political verdict: red on the outside, white on the inside
President Cyril Ramaphosa arrives at the ANC NEC meeting in Joburg, December 5 2022. Picture: REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham
A second prospect could be that, as electoral support for the governing party inexorably drains away the ANC entices Julius Malema back into the fold, hoping that he will bring enough young supporters along with him to keep the gravy train on the rails a while longer. The logic of that mirrors Leon Trotsky’s attack on Vladimir Lenin in 1904, when he predicted: “The party organisation substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organisation, and finally a ‘dictator’ substitutes himself for the central committee.” Trotsky should have heeded his own warning; his nemesis, Stalin, was the incarnation of “substitutionalism”.
As opposed to the slur “coconut” Trotsky’s “turnip” is a political verdict: “red on the outside, white on the inside”, where white refers to the anti-Bolshevik White Army during the Russian Civil War of 1917-1923.
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