Trotskyists

Anti-Stalinist Soviet leftists

Trotskyists are followers of Leon Trotsky, the Russian revolutionary who opposed Stalin's consolidation of power and advocated permanent worldwide revolution rather than socialism in one country.

The term applies to various far-left political movements and parties that trace their ideology to Trotsky's writings.

Critics—especially other Marxists—use it dismissively: The Trotskyists were blamed for splitting the left.

history

October Revolution

Soviet founding coup

BolsheviksLenin's revolutionary party
Red ArmySoviet ground forces
Soviet UnionFormer communist superstate

exile · assassination · Mensheviks · Russian Revolution · civil war · Comintern · show trials · purges · ice axe

ideology

class struggle

Conflict between economic groups

world revolutionWorldwide systemic overthrow
political revolutionFundamental change in governance
mass strikeLarge-scale labor stoppage

Leninism · Marxism · anti-capitalism

opposition

factionalism

Division into opposing cliques

dissentDisagreement with authority
schismFormal organizational fracture
heresyBelief opposing official doctrine

critique · defiance · expulsion · persecution · underground · clandestine · samizdat · opposition · split · tendency

organizations

sectarianism

Prejudiced loyalty to subgroups

regroupmentReassembly after dispersal
cadreCore of trained personnel
cellBasic unit of life

tendency · splinter group

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class struggle

factionalism

sectarianism

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