Trotskyism
Anti-Stalinist Marxist tendency
Trotskyism is a Marxist political ideology based on the theories of Leon Trotsky, who opposed Stalin's leadership of the Soviet Union.
Its central doctrine is "permanent revolution"—the belief that socialism cannot survive in one country but must spread internationally.
Trotskyists typically advocate worker-led revolution while criticizing bureaucratic communist states as betrayals of socialist ideals.
The term is sometimes used loosely for any leftist position seen as doctrinaire or factionally obsessive.
Soviet founding coup
- Red ArmySoviet ground forces
- BolsheviksLenin's revolutionary party
- MensheviksRussian moderate socialist faction
- Russian RevolutionSoviet founding upheaval
exile · political asylum · ice pick · assassination · show trials · 1917 · civil war
Worldwide systemic overthrow
- political revolutionFundamental change in governance
- united frontCoalition presenting as one
Totalitarian Communist doctrine
- bureaucracyRigid administrative system
- degenerationProgressive loss of function
- betrayalBreaking of trust
- thermidorCreamy mustard seafood preparation
counterrevolution · Great Purge · rehabilitation · revisionism · centrism · opportunism · social democracy
Separation into parts
- tendencyInclination toward a behavior
- factionGroup within group
- sectarianismPrejudiced loyalty to subgroups
- regroupmentReassembly after dispersal
October Revolution
Soviet founding coup
- Red ArmySoviet ground forces
- BolsheviksLenin's revolutionary party
- MensheviksRussian moderate socialist faction
Russian Revolution · exile · political asylum · ice pick · assassination · show trials · 1917 · civil war
world revolution
Worldwide systemic overthrow
- political revolutionFundamental change in governance
- united frontCoalition presenting as one
Stalinism
Totalitarian Communist doctrine
- bureaucracyRigid administrative system
- degenerationProgressive loss of function
- betrayalBreaking of trust
thermidor · counterrevolution · Great Purge · rehabilitation · revisionism · centrism · opportunism · social democracy
split
Separation into parts
- tendencyInclination toward a behavior
- factionGroup within group
- sectarianismPrejudiced loyalty to subgroups
- communismMarx, Lenin, proletariat, Engels, Stalinism
- political ideologiesconservatism, conservative, anarchism, liberalism, liberal
- socialismcommunism, proletariat, bourgeoisie, communal ownership, collective ownership
- Soviet EraUSSR, Soviet Union, Soviet rule, CCCP, Eastern Bloc
- class struggleclass conflict, class warfare, class divide, class struggle, class consciousness
- economic systemscapitalism, mercantilism, communism, feudalism, socialism
Trotskyismcapitalism
Private profit-based economy
laissez-faire · neoliberalism · libertarianism · fascism · Nazism
Trotskyismreformism
Gradual political change doctrine
gradualism · social democracy · incrementalism · democratic socialism · revisionism