In the organizer's words:

Input Ingar Solty Discussion partner Janine Wissler
Moderation Hauke Neddermann

Even as a schoolboy, Leon Trotsky dedicated himself to the world revolution. Just of age, he began a life of imprisonment, Siberian exile and constant flight. He became the leader of the revolutions of 1905 and 1917. As a revolutionary, he led the Red Army in the Civil War and was responsible for the peace of Brest-Litovsk as well as the suppression of the Kronstadt Uprising. As a theorist, he produced extensive analyses of economic, political and cultural issues, including literature. He opposed Stalin's "socialism in one country" with the "permanent revolution". Forced out of the country, Trotsky became the leading theoretician of the "Left Opposition". For a long time, he hoped for the reform of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Third International. Later, he saw the need for a Fourth International and a new party. Branded an agent of Western imperialism, he was persecuted into exile and murdered in Mexico in 1940.