Encounters with Your Inner Trotsky Child
This is another chapter in the parallel-leftist-universe of Jim Finn-a film that looks to be part of a communist self-help videotape series made in the late 80's. Series author, Lois Severin, was responding to the move from mass sociopolitical engagement of the 60's and 70's to the personal fulfillment fantasies of the 80's-the Jane Fonda-ization of the Left. But these tapes were not merely a desperate attempt for Trotskyites to stay relevant in the neoliberal era. They were mimicking the Christian fundamentalist activists who organized in churches and community centers in the 70's. While those anti-government right-wing activists prepared the ground for the takeover of the highest levels of government that began under Reagan and reached its apogee in the Cheney/Bush era, 'Your Inner Trotsky Child' was an attempt to radicalize the personal fulfillment and self-help scene and prepare the ground for a 21st Century revolution.
