Trotskyism

2026-06-24T11:50:10Z

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{{Ideology
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|title=[[File:Trot.png]] '''Trotskyism''' [[File:Lev Davidovich Bronstein.png]]
|image=TrotskyByKuz.png
|caption="Not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, but a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois."
|aliases={{ScrollBox|
[[File:Trot.png]] Bolshevism-Leninism 
[[File:Karl Marx.png]][[File:Orengelsf.png]][[File:Lenin.png]][[File:Lev Davidovich Bronstein.png]] Marx–Engels–Lenin–Trotsky 
[[File:Classicaltrotskyism-icon.png]] Orthodox Trotskyism [[File:Classicaltrotskyism-icon.png]] Classical Trotskyism 
[[File:Lev Davidovich Bronstein.png]] Leon Trotsky Thought 
[[File:Lev Davidovich Bronstein.png]] Bronsteinism 
Third Camp 
[[File:Armchair_Trot.png]] True Communism (By Himself) 
[[File:SeñorTro.png]] Señor Trotsky [[File:LeninSteriods.png]] Leninism on steroids Left Neoconservatism (by critics) 
[[File:AF-Snowball.png]] Snowball (in [[File:AnTory.png]] Orwell's Animal Farm) 
[[File:Neocommunism-icon.png]] Neocommunism (pejoratively) 
{{Alias|Stalin.png|Marxism-Leninism|Left Opposition}} 
{{Alias|ML.png|Marxism-Leninism|[[File:Anti-Lenin.png]] "Anti-Leninism"}} 
{{Alias|ML.png|Marxism-Leninism|[[File:AntiTrot.png]] "Doesn’t actually exist"}} 
{{Alias|JosipBrozTito.png|Titoism|[[File:MLImp.png]] Social Imperialist}} 
{{Alias|Kak-Dunce.png|Kakistocracy|KFC guy}} 
<s>"Posadism without nukes, aliens and dolphins"</s>
}}
|alignments=
{{Info|Authoritarian Left|AuthLeft}} 
[[File:InfRevolutionaryism.png|link=:Category:Culturally Left]] [[:Category:Culturally Left|{{Color|#A64D79|'''Culturally Far-Left'''}}]] 
{{Info|Socialists}} 
{{Info|Communists}} 
[[File:Internat.png|link=:Category:Internationalists]] [[:Category:Internationalists|{{Color|#782F52|'''Internationalists'''}}]] 
|theorists=
*[[File:Cball-EU.png]] '''Europe''' {{Collapse|
**[[File:Lev Davidovich Bronstein.png]] [[Leninism|Leon Trotsky]] (Lev Bronstein) (1879-1940) [[File:Cball-UkrSSR.png]] Ukrainian SSR
**[[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism|Christian Rakovsky]] (1873-1941) [[File:Cball-Bulgaria.png]] {{PBW|Bulgariaball|Bulgaria}}
**[[File:ML.png]] [[Agrarian Socialism|Ivan Smirnov]] (1881-1936) [[File:Cball-RussianSFSR.png]] Russian SFSR
**[[File:LeninSteriods.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism|Karl Radek]] (1885-1939) [[File:Cball-AustriaHungary.png]] Austria-{{PBW|Hungaryball|Hungary}}
**[[File:Anti-Stalin.png]] [[Libertarian Socialism|Victor Serge]] (1890-1947) [[File:Cball-RussianSFSR.png]] Russian SFSR
**[[File:Racenat.png]] [[Racial Nationalism|René Binet]] (1913-1957) [[File:Cball-France.png]] France (Formerly)
**[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism|Ernest Mandel]] (1923-1995) [[File:Cball-Belgium.png]] {{PBW|Belgiumball|Belgium}}
**[[File:Leftpop-0.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism|Nathalie Arthaud]] (1970-) [[File:Cball-France.png]] {{PBW|Franceball|France}}
**[[File:Marx-21-Linke.png]] [[Eurocommunism|Christine Buchholz]] (1971-) [[File:Cball-Germany.png]] {{PBW|Germanyball|Germany}}
**[[File:NaziTroticon.png]] [[National Bolshevism|Oleg Vernyk]] (1971-) [[File:Cball-UkrSSR.png]] Ukrainian SSR
**[[File:Mortebianca.png]] [[Neo-Marxism|Mortebianca]] (?-) [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] {{PBW|Italyball|Italy}}
}}
*[[File:Cball-Commonwealth.png]] '''Commonwealth Realm''' {{Collapse|
**[[File:Red_Tory.png]] [[Conservative Socialism|Ted Grant (Isaac Blank)]] (1913-2006) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] {{PBW|UKball|UK}}
**[[File:Hitchens.png]] [[Secularism|Christopher Hitchens]] (1949-2011) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK (Formerly)
**[[File:AlexCallinicos.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism|Alex Callinicos]] (1950-) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK
**[[File:AlbaParty.png]] [[Left-Wing Nationalism|Tommy Sheridan]] (1964-) [[File:Cball-Scotland.png]] Scotland/[[File:Cball-UK.png]] {{PBW|UKball|UK}}
}}
*[[File:PanAmer.png]] '''Americas''' {{Collapse|
**[[File:Johnsonite.png]] [[Libertarian Socialism|C. L. R. James]] (1901-1989) [[File:Cball-Trinidad and Tobago.png]] {{PBW|Trinidad and Tobagoball|Trinidad and Tobago}}
**[[File:Posadist.png]] [[Posadism|J. Posadas]] (1912-1981) [[File:Argentina.png]] {{PBW|Argentinaball|Argentina}}
**[[File:IrvingKristol.png]] [[Neoconservatism|Irving Kristol]] (1920-2009) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA (Formerly)
**[[File:Burnham.png]] [[Neoconservatism|James Burnham]] (1905-1987) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA (Formerly)
**[[File:LaRouche.png]] [[Cultism|Lyndon LaRouche]] (1922-2019) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA (Formerly)
**[[File:Trot.png]] [[Trotskyism|James P. Cannon]] (1890-1974) [[File:Cball-US.png]] {{PBW|USAball|USA}}
**[[File:ERP.png]] [[Marxism|Nahuel Moreno]] (1924-1987) [[File:Cball-Argentina.png]] {{PBW|Argentinaball|Argentina}}
**[[File:Progconalt.png]] [[Progressive Conservatism|David Thorstad]] (1941-2021) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA (Formerly)
**[[File:Chavismo-eyes.png]] [[Chavismo|Hugo Chávez]] (1954-2013) [[File:Chavismo.png]] {{PBW|Venezuelaball|Venezuela}}
**[[File:RuiCosta.png]] [[Conservative Socialism|Rui Costa Pimenta]] (1957-) [[File:Cball-Brazil.png]] {{PBW|Brazilball|Brazil}}
**[[File:BrazilPSTU.png]] [[Socialism|José Maria de Almeida]] (1957-) [[File:Cball-Brazil.png]] {{PBW|Brazilball|Brazil}}
**[[File:HeloisaHelena.png]] [[Progressive Conservatism|Heloísa Helena]] (1962-) [[File:Cball-Brazil.png]] {{PBW|Brazilball|Brazil}}
**[[File:Psolism.png]] [[Eco-Socialism|Luciana Genro]] (1971-) [[File:Cball-Brazil.png]] {{PBW|Brazilball|Brazil}}
**[[File:Leftpop-0.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism|Kshama Sawant]] (1973-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] {{PBW|USAball|USA}}
**[[File:PTSArg.png]] [[Progressivism|Nicolás del Caño]] (1980-) [[File:Cball-Argentina.png]] {{PBW|Argentinaball|Argentina}}
**[[File:PTSArg.png]] [[Radical Feminism|Myriam Bregman]] (1972-) [[File:Cball-Argentina.png]] {{PBW|Argentinaball|Argentina}}
**[[File:Ultraprogressivism.png]] [[Revolutionary Progressivism|Dauno Tótoro]] (1993-) [[File:Cball-Chile.png]] {{PBW|Chileball|Chile}}
**[[File:BrazilPSTU.png]] [[Marxism|Gustavo Machado]] (?-) [[File:Cball-Brazil.png]] {{PBW|Brazilball|Brazil}}
**[[File:Norton.png]] [[Socialism of the 21st Century|Ben Norton]] (?-) [[File:Cball-US.png]] USA (Formerly)
}}
*[[File:PanAsian.png]] '''Asia''' {{Collapse|
**[[File:ChenDuxiu.png]] [[Revolutionary Progressivism|Chen Duxiu]] (1879-1942) [[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] ROC<ref>Only in his early days.</ref>
**[[File:MaoTrot.png]] [[Revolutionary Progressivism|Peng Shuzhi]] (1896-1983) [[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] ROC
**[[File:Klep.png]] [[File:ChenDuxiu.png]][[Democratic Socialism|Zheng Chaolin]] (1901-1998) [[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] ROC- PRC [[File:Cball-China.png]]
**[[File:Socdem.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|Lou Guohua]] (1906-1995) [[File:Cball-Taiwan.png]] ROC- British Hong Kong [[File:Cball-HK-UK.png]]
**[[File:Ultraprogressivism.png]] [[Revolutionary Progressivism|Tạ Thu Thâu]] (1906-1945) [[File:Cball-France.png]] French Indochina [[File:Colonial.png]]
**[[File:Councom.png]] [[Council Communism|Ngo Van Xuyet]] (1912-2005) [[File:Hochi.png]] Vietnam (Initially)
**[[File:Clif.png]] [[Council Communism|Tony Cliff (Yigael Glückstein)]] (1917-2000) [[File:Zio.png]][[File:Cball-UK.png]] Israel/{{PBW|UKball|UK}}
**[[File:Postconan.png]] [[Neo-Marxism|Tariq Ali]] (1943-) [[File:Cball-Pakistan.png]][[File:Cball-UK.png]] Pakistan/{{PBW|UKball|UK}}
}}
*[[File:Ismism Icon.png]] '''Fictional''' {{Collapse|
**[[File:AF-Snowball.png]] Snowball the Pig [[File:Animalfarm.png]] Animal Farm
**[[File:Goldstein.png]] [[Anti-Authoritarianism|Emmanuel Goldstein]] [[File:Ingsocf.png]] Oceania
}}
|influences=
[[File:Antifa.png]] [[Anti-Fascism]] 
[[File:Anti-Stalin.png]] Anti-Stalinism 
[[File:Indust.png]] [[Industrialism]] 
[[File:Internat.png]] [[Internationalism]] 
[[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism]] 
[[File:Luxem.png]] [[Classical Social Democracy|Luxemburgism]]<ref>Trotsky considered himself as a follower of Rosa Luxemburg.</ref> 
[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]] 
[[File:Tankie.png]] [[Stratocracy]]<ref>Trotsky is the founder and the first leader of the Red Army.</ref> 
[[File:Statesoc.png]] [[State Socialism]]<ref>Trotsky opposed the NEP and supported a centrally planned economy.</ref> 
[[File:Sozialistische Weltrepublik.png]] [[World_Federalism#World_Communism|World Communism]] 
|school =
|regional=
[[File:ArcheioMarx.png]] '''Archeio-Marxism''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Ancom.png]] [[Anarcho-Communism]] (Accused)
*[[File:Antisynd.png]] Anti-Unionism
*[[File:Centmarxf.png]] [[Classical Social Democracy|Centrist Marxism]]
*[[File:Enlightenment.png]] [[Enlightenment Thought]]
}} 
[[File:PTSArg.png]] '''Argentine Trotskyism''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Anticap.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Capitalism}}
*[[File:Antifa.png]] [[Anti-Fascism]]
*[[File:Antiimp.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Imperialism}}
*[[File:AntiPutinism.png]] Anti-Putinism
*[[File:AntiRacism.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Racism}}
*[[File:Anti-Stalin.png]] Anti-Stalinism
*[[File:Antiwest.png]] Anti-Westernism
*[[File:Antizion.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Zionism}}
*[[File:Demsocstar.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]]
*[[File:Native.png]] [[Indigenism]]
*[[File:Libsoc.png]] [[Libertarian Socialism]]
*[[File:Multicult.png]] [[Multiculturalism]]
*[[File:ProgSoc.png]] [[Progressivism]]
*[[File:SocFem.png]] [[Marxist Feminism|Socialist Feminism]]
*[[File:Synd.png]] [[Syndicalism]]
}} 
[[File:ChenDuxiu.png]] '''Chen Duxiu Thought/Original CPCism''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Anti-Colonial.png]] Anti-Colonialism
*[[File:Anti-Confucian.png]] Anti-Confucianism
*[[File:Antiimp.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Imperialism}}
*[[File:AntiMaoid.png]] Anti-Maoism
*[[File:Anti-Stalin.png]] Anti-Stalinism
*[[File:Demsocstar.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]]
*[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]]
*[[File:Ultraprogressivism.png]] [[Revolutionary Progressivism]]
*[[File:3princ-col.png]] [[Tridemism|Classical Tridemism]] (Collaborated with, reluctantly)
}} 
[[File:Wikisoc.png]] '''People Before Profit''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:AgCoop.png]] [[Agrarian Socialism|Agrarian Cooperativism]]
*[[File:AntiAusterity.png]] Anti-Austerity
*[[File:Anticap.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Capitalism}}
*[[File:Antifa.png]] [[Anti-Fascism]]
*[[File:Antiimp.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Imperialism}}
*[[File:AntiPutinism.png]] Anti-Putinism
*[[File:AntiRacism.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Racism}}
*[[File:Antiwest.png]] Anti-Westernism
*[[File:Antizion.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Zionism}} 
*[[File:Compop.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism|Communist Populism]]
*[[File:Demsocstar.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]]
*[[File:Ecosoc.png]] [[Eco-Socialism]]
*[[File:Euroscept.png]] [[Separatism|Euroscepticism]]
*[[File:ICA.png]] [[Left-Wing Nationalism|Irish Socialist Republicanism]]
*[[File:Multicult.png]] [[Multiculturalism]]
*[[File:Isolationist.png]] [[Isolationism|Neutrality]]
*[[File:Pac.png]] {{PCBA|Pacifism}}
*[[File:ProgSoc.png]] [[Progressivism]]
*[[File:SocFem.png]] [[Marxist Feminism|Socialist Feminism]]
*[[File:Synd.png]] [[Syndicalism]]
*[[File:UnitedIreland.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism#Ireland|United Ireland]]
}} 
[[File:Trot.png]] '''Révolution Permanente''' [[File:Cball-France.png]] {{Collapse|
*[[File:Anti-Colonial.png]] Anti-Colonialism
*[[File:Compop.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism|Communist Populism]]
*[[File:SyndieSam.png]] [[Syndicalism]]
*[[File:Ispop.png]] [[Islamic Populism]]
*[[File:Cball-YellowVests.png]] [[Populism|Yellow Vestism]]
*[[File:Prog-u.png]] [[Progressivism]]
*[[File:SocFem.png]] [[Marxist Feminism|Socialist Feminism]]
}} 
[[File:Neocommunism-icon.png]] '''Shachtmanism/Third Camp Trotskyism''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Antifa.png]] [[Anti-Fascism]]
*[[File:AntiRacism.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Racism}}
*[[File:Antieast.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Imperialism|Anti-Soviet Imperialism}}
*[[File:Anti-Stalin.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Stalinism}}
*[[File:Dsa.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]] (Later on)
*[[File:Demcr.png]] [[Big Tent Liberalism|Democratism]] (Later on, sympathetic)<ref>Shachtman helped pressure the SP to work with the Democratic Party in order to push the Democrats to the left. This strategy was known as "realignment."</ref>
*[[File:Necon.png]] [[Neoconservatism]] (Later On, kinda)
*[[File:Postkeynes.png]] [[Keynesian School|Permanent Arms Economy]]
*[[File:Prog-u.png]] [[Progressivism]]
*[[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy]] (Later on)
*[[File:Synd.png]] [[Syndicalism]]
*[[File:NAM.png]] {{PCBA|Non-Alignedism|Third Camp}} (Self-Proclaimed)
*'''Historically:'''
**[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]]
**[[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxism-Leninism]]
}} 
[[File:AF-Snowball.png]] ''' Snowballism (Early Animal Farm)''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Antitot.png]] [[Anti-Authoritarianism|Anti-Totalitarianism]] (Against Napoleon and Farmers)
*[[File:Agsoc.png]] [[Agrarian Socialism]]
*[[File:Compop.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism|Communist Populism]]
*[[File:Internation.png]] [[Internationalism]]
*[[File:Imp.png]] [[Imperialism]] (Accused by Napoleon)
*[[File:Indust.png]] [[Industrialism]] (Plans for windmill)
*[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]] (Old Major)
*[[File:Ultraprogressivism.png]] [[Revolutionary Progressivism]]
*[[File:Soc-h.png]] [[Socialism]]
*[[File:Statist.png]] {{PCBA|Statism|Statism}} (Planning out operations)
*[[File:Techcratsoc.png]] [[Socialism|Techno-Socialism]]
}} 
[[File:SLP.png]] '''Socialist Alternative''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:LeftThar.png]] [[Anti-Authoritarianism]]
*[[File:Antizion.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Zionism}}
*[[File:Compop.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism|Communist Populism]]
*[[File:Dsa.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]]
*[[File:Ecosoc.png]] [[Eco-Socialism]]
*[[File:Euroscept.png]] Euroscepticism (In Europe)
*[[File:SocFem.png]] [[Marxist Feminism|Socialist Feminism]]
}}
|personal =
[[File:Clif.png]] '''Cliffism/International Socialist Tendency''' [[File:IST.png]] {{Collapse|
*[[File:Globnat.png]] [[Alter-Globalism]]
*[[File:LeftThar.png]] [[Anti-Authoritarianism]]
*[[File:AntiBaath.png]] Anti-Ba'athism
*[[File:AntiIsis.png]] Anti-ISIS
*[[File:Anti-Juche.png]] Anti-Juche
*[[File:AntiMil.png]] Anti-Militarism
*[[File:AntiNuclear.png]] Anti-Nuclear Energy
*[[File:Anti-Stalin.png]] Anti-Stalinism
*[[File:Antizion.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Zionism}}
*[[File:Councom.png]] [[Council Communism]] (allegedly)
*[[File:Cybercom.png]] [[Cybercommunism]] (recently)
*[[File:DemCentral.png]] [[Leninism|Democratic Centralism]]
*[[File:Gramsci.png]] [[Neo-Marxism|Gramscianism]]
*[[File:HardEuroscept.png]] Hard Euroscepticism
*[[File:Intercult.png]] [[Interculturalism]]
*[[File:Marxfemnewicon.png]] [[Marxist Feminism]]
*[[File:Gay.png]] Pro-LGBTQ+
*[[File:Prost.png]] Prostitution Decriminalization
*[[File:Ultraprogressivism.png]] [[Revolutionary Progressivism]]
*[[File:Secular.png]] [[Secularism]]
*'''Supportive:'''
**[[File:Cball-Libya.png]] [[Anti-Authoritarianism|Anti-Gaddafi Forces]]
**[[File:ArabSpring.png]] [[Islamic Democracy|Arab Spring]]
**[[File:Assange.png]] [[Anti-Authoritarianism|Assangeism]]
**[[File:Cball-Catalonia-Estelada.png]] [[Separatism|Catalan Separatism]]
**[[File:Cball-RepublicOfCuba.png]] [[Anti-Authoritarianism|Cuban Dissident Movement]]
**[[File:Hamas.png]] [[Jihadism|Hamasism]]
**[[File:Khom.png]] [[Khomeinism|Hezbollahism]]
**[[File:Cball-Persia.png]] [[Anti-Authoritarianism|Iranian Opposition]]
**[[File:LiuXiaobo.png]] [[Anti-Authoritarianism|Liu Xiaobo Thought]]
**[[File:64Student.png]] [[Anti-Authoritarianism|Tiananmen Square Protests]]
**[[File:Cball-YellowVests.png]] [[Populism|Yellow Vestism]]
*'''Historically'''
**[[File:Labzion.png]] [[Labour Zionism]] (until late 1930s)
}} 
[[File:Dsa.png]] '''Sawantism''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:CHAZism-icon.png]] [[Black Anarchism|CHAZism]] (sympathetic)
*[[File:Compop.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism|Communist Populism]]
*[[File:Dsa.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]]
*[[File:Ecosoc.png]] [[Eco-Socialism]]
*[[File:Marxfemnewicon.png]] [[Marxist Feminism]]
*[[File:Sanders.png]] [[Social Democracy|Sandersism]] (Sympathetic)
*[[File:Sozialistische Weltrepublik.png]] [[World Federalism#World Communism|World Communism]]
}} 
'''[[File:404.png]] Tạ Thu Thâu Thought''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Anticap.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Capitalism}}
*[[File:Anti-Colonial.png]] Anti-Colonialism
*[[File:Antifa.png]] [[Anti-Fascism]]
*[[File:Antiimp.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Imperialism}}
*[[File:Anti-Stalin.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Stalinism}}
*[[File:Agsoc.png]] [[Agrarian Socialism]]
*[[File:SocialistPatriot.png]] [[Left-Wing Nationalism|Social Patriotism]]
*[[File:SyndieSam.png]] [[Syndicalism|Trade Unionism]]
*'''Sympathetic'''
**[[File:Guerin.png]] [[Queer Anarchism|Guérinism]]
**[[File:Hochi.png]] [[Ho Chi Minh Thought]] (Pragramatical)
**[[File:Soc-h.png]] [[Socialism|Nguyễn An Ninh Thought]]
*'''Formely'''
**[[File:Leftnat.png]] [[Left-Wing Nationalism|PAIism]]
}} 
|influenced=
[[File:Civliber.png]] [[Civil Libertarianism|Baldwinism]] (Briefly) 
[[File:Racenat.png]] [[Racial Nationalism|Binetism]] (Historically) 
[[File:MurrayBookchin.png]] [[Libertarian Municipalism|Bookchinism]] (Early on) 
[[File:Chavismo.png]] [[Chavismo]] 
[[File:Vlasov.png]] [[Machiavellianism|Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia]] (Factions) 
[[File:Guerin.png]] [[Queer Anarchism|Guérinism]] 
[[File:HeloisaHelena.png]] [[Progressive Conservatism|Heloisa Helenism]] 
[[File:Hitchens.png]] [[Secularism|Hitchensism]] (Historically) 
[[File:PanaitIstratiThought.png]] [[Crusade of Romanianism|Istratism]] (Sympathetic) 
[[File:Johnsonite.png]] [[Libertarian Socialism|Johnson-Forest Tendency]] (Initially) 
[[File:LeftCom.png]] [[Italian Left Communism]] (Allegedly) 
[[File:Macintyre2.png]] [[Communitarianism|MacIntyreism]] (Historically) 
[[File:Dsa.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|Michael Harrington Thought]] (Shachtmanism) 
[[File:ManuelMora.png]] [[Liberal Socialism|Morismo]] (Early on) 
[[File:Necon.png]] [[Neoconservatism]] (Allegedly) 
[[File:Matapacos.png]] [[Revolutionary Progressivism|Octubrismo]] 
[[File:Posadist.png]] [[Posadism]] 
[[File:Meta-Anarchism.png]] [[Nomadology]] 
[[File:Rodt.png]] [[Reformist Marxism|Red Party (Norway)]] (Factions) 
[[File:Mir chile.png]] [[Guevarism|Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile)]] (Initially) 
[[File:Anpag.png]] [[Anarcho-Individualism|Robert Anton Wilsonism]] 
[[File:MichaelRosen.png]] [[Satirism|Rosenism]] ([[File:Clif.png]] Cliffism) 
|likes=
Newspapers Permanent Revolution 4th International 
[[File:CBall-Mexico.png]] Mexico [[File:Castro.png]] Fidel Castro [[File:Chavismo.png]] Hugo Chavez 
|dislikes=<div style="overflow:auto; height:auto; max-height:200px; background:transparent;">
[[File:Office.png]] Bureaucracy [[File:Stalin.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|Stalin and Stalinism]] Ramón Mercader [[File:Realpolitik.png]] Realpolitik 
[[File:Cball-China.png]] [[Maoism|People's Republic of]] [[Dengism|China]] [[File:Mao.png]][[File:Dengf.png]] 
[[File:Khom.png]][[File:Milosevic.png]][[File:Lukash.png]] Non-Communist dictators[[File:Putin.png]][[File:Baath.png]][[File:Tatmadaw.png]][[File:Hun_Sen.png]][[File:IsaiasAfwerki-PFDJ.png]] (Even if they oppose the West) 
[[File:Tankie.png]] Tankies 
Ice picks [[File:Farm.png]] Kulaks 
</div>
|song=
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA-W_MPg9ec Red Army March] 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fzsQt6hz6A&ab_channel=comradeyar Red Army is The Strongest (Rock Version) LYUBE] 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b99r48grKGI&ab_channel=TheScoreVEVO The Score - Revolution]
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7YiCeYuxZ4 Murió Trotsky Asesinado]
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoXGkoFU73o Opportunity (1940)] by Catch 22
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOd8WGCDu7E SPELLLING - Revolution]
 <s>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwxTZaa3NgI Bonk Sound Effect #2]<s> 
<s>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E2ag-9hD-c Minecraft Pickaxe Sound]</s> 
<s>[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fXG3NhwstPM Cannibal Corpse - Ice Pick Lobotomy]<s>
|examples=
*[[File:Cball-USSR.png]] [[Leninism|The Soviet Union after Lenin's death and the power struggle between Stalin]] (January 1924-January 1925)
*[[File:Cball-Venezuela.png]] [[Chavismo|Venezuela under the leadership of Hugo Chávez]] (14 April 2002-5 March 2013)
*[[file:GWB.png]] <s>[[Neoconservatism|George W. Bush administration]] (2001-2009)</s>
}}
{{Quote|
quote="To make the individual sacred we must destroy the social order which crucifies him. And this problem can only be solved by blood and iron."
|speaker=[[File:Lev Davidovich Bronstein.png]] [[Leninism|Leon Trotsky]]
}}
'''Trotskyism''' or '''Bolshevik-Leninism''' is a [[File:Soc-h.png]] [[Socialism|Socialist]] and [[File:Internation.png]] [[Internationalism|Internationalist]] ideology focusing on the political ideals of the Soviet revolutionary [[File:Lev Davidovich Bronstein.png]] Leon Trotsky. It is distinguished in the belief of "permanent revolution".

== History==
Trotskyism originated during the life of [[File:Lev Davidovich Bronstein.png]] Leon Trotsky, who was influenced by the ideas of [[File:Karl Marx.png]] [[Marxism|Karl Marx]] and [[File:Lenin.png]] [[Leninism|Vladimir Lenin]]. When the October Revolution occured, Trotsky was a major leader of the revolution and contributed greatly to leading the Petrograd Soviet. During the Russian Civil War, Trotsky was a major leader of the Red Army. When [[File:JosephStalin.png]] [[Marxism-Leninism|Joseph Stalin]] came to power in 1924, Trotsky was exiled from the [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] USSR and formed the Fourth International with other Trotskyists. Trotskyism and the Fourth International continued to exist after Trotsky's assassination. After the death of the unified Fourth International, the League for the Fifth International (L5I) was eventually formed in hopes of creating a new Trotskyist 'Fifth International'. The L5I still exists to this day and has affiliated parties in multiple countries.

== Beliefs==
Trotskyism's main belief is the "Permanent Revolution", which is the belief that the complete victory of the [[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism|bourgeois-democratic revolution]] in Russia is conceivable only in the form of [[File:Erga.png]] [[Ergatocracy|the dictatorship of the proletariat]], leaning on the peasantry, due to the international nature of capitalism allowing for "backwards" nations such as Russia to skip stages through '''combined development'''.
The [[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism|democratic revolution]] grows over directly into the [[File:Soc-h.png]] [[Socialism|socialist revolution]] and thereby becomes a permanent revolution.
===Degenerated Workers State===
Another important Trotskyist belief is the theory of the "Degenerated Workers' State". According to it, a [[File:Erga.png]] [[Ergatocracy|Dictatorship of the Proletariat]] may develop a powerful caste of state bureaucrats, which will seize the power from the workers. [[File:Stalin.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|Such a state]] will be unable to progress further towards [[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism|higher-stage Communism]], and without any political revolution to overthrow the bureaucracy, it will eventually slide back to [[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]]. As such, Trotsky believed that a socialist state would need to be run [[File:DemCentral.png]] democratically.

===The incapability of the peasantry===
The theory of permanent revolution further considers that the peasantry as a whole cannot take on the task of carrying through the revolution because it is dispersed in small holdings throughout the country and forms a heterogeneous grouping, including the rich peasants who employ rural workers and aspire to landlordism and the poor peasants who aspire to own more land. Trotsky argues: "All historical experience [...] shows that the peasantry is incapable of taking up an independent political role".

==Variants==
===[[File:ChenDuxiu.png]] '''Chen Duxiu Thought/Original CPCism===
Chen Duxiu (9 October 1879 – 27 May 1942) was a Chinese revolutionary, writer, educator, and political philosopher who co-founded the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1921, serving as its first General Secretary from 1921 to 1927. Chen was a leading figure in the New Culture Movement and May Fourth Movement of 1919, which significantly influenced China's intellectual and political landscape in the early 20th century.

Born in Anhui, Chen was raised in a traditional gentry family but became involved in revolutionary activities from a young age. He studied in Japan, where he was exposed to Western ideas and became involved with Chinese student activist groups. Returning to China, he played a key role in local revolutionary movements in Anhui, notably through journalism and education, advocating for a vernacular literary revolution and the preservation of China's "national essence". During the New Culture Movement (c. 1915–1922), Chen rose to national prominence as the editor of the influential magazine New Youth (Xin Qingnian) and as Dean of Arts and Letters at Peking University. He championed science, democracy, and vernacular literature while launching trenchant critiques of traditional Confucianism and Chinese society. His writings and leadership were instrumental in shaping the May Fourth generation of intellectuals and activists.

Following the May Fourth Movement and influenced by the Russian Revolution, Chen embraced Marxism and, with the assistance of Comintern agents, co-founded the CCP. As its first leader, he navigated the complex early years of the party, including the formation of the First United Front with the Kuomintang (KMT). However, he was removed from leadership in 1927, becoming a scapegoat for the failures of the United Front. Subsequently, Chen became associated with the Trotskyist Left Opposition and was expelled from the CCP in 1929. He spent his later years in relative political isolation, continuing his philological research until he died in Sichuan in 1942.

===[[File:Clif.png]] Cliffism===
'''Cliffism'''' is an Ideology that is in its core Trotskyist but has broken with key components of [[File:Classicaltrotskyism-icon.png]] Orthodox Trotskyism, such as the theory of Deformed Worker's States. It is more ideologically Versatile and puts more emphasis on identity Politics than normal Trotskyism, attempting to "Unite the Struggles". Cliffism is, similar to Trotskyism, on the far Left politically and culturally and slightly above the Authority Axis. It wants to achieve a Leninist Multi-Party Council Communist Democracy.

'''History'''

Cliffism was founded in 1948 by Israeli-British Socialist [[File:Clif.png]] Tony Cliff (real name Yigael Gluckstein). Initially a member of the british wing of the Fourth International, the Revolutionary Communist Party, Cliff was expelled in the 50s for refusing to take a stance for or against North Korea in the Korean War, seeing it as a War between two capitalist Nations and founded the "International Socialists" who would later become the "Socialist Workers Party" of the [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK. From there on the SWP was a constant, if minor, power within British Politics, organising during the Vietnam War, being an important part of the [[File:AntiNazism.png]] Anti-Nazi-League. Due to its ability to change Tactics rapidly it was able to survive [[File:Thatcher.png]] [[Conservative_Liberalism#Thatcherism|Thatcherism]] and later showed itself again in Anti-War movements. It continues to be a force in British Politics to this day. Outside of [[File:Cball-UK.png]] Britain its Tendency is very strong in [[File:Cball-Ireland.png]] Ireland and [[File:Cball-Germany.png]] Germany, where it has members in Parliament.

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==Relationships==
===Товарищи (Comrades)===
*[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]] - Dad knows best.
*[[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism]] - I helped him set up the Soviet Union. And I am his legitimate successor.
*[[File:Kemal.png]] [[Kemalism]] - We are both progressive, anti-imperialist and secular.
*[[File:Luxem.png]] [[Classical Social Democracy|Spartacism]] - A martyr to the communist movement, and a great inspiration to us all.
*[[File:Cardenas.png]] [[Left-Wing Nationalism|Cardenismo]] - Nationalist and too economically moderate, but thanks for giving me shelter for the rest of my life in Mexico. And your level of bravery and honesty definitely has my respect.<ref>https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/2939.html</ref>
*[[File:Internat.png]] [[Internationalism]] - All true socialists must be internationalists.
*[[File:Globnat.png]] [[Alter-Globalism]] - We too want to establish a world socialist republic, but you often stop short of calling for a revolution you do follow in my goals.
*[[File:Lpop.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism]] - Basically me since Lenin died at least.
*[[File:Antifa.png]] [[Anti-Fascism]] - Acquaint fascists' heads with the pavement! Also I supported popular and united fronts against fascism.
*[[File:Progconf.png]] [[Progressive Conservatism]] - Both Lenin and Militant liked you, we can pass progressive social policy without going crazy.

===Попутчики (Fellow travellers)===
*[[File:Castro.png]] [[National Communism|Castroism]] - One of the nicer MLs. But your support for Nationalism is cringe. However I support you against [[File:Cball-US.png]] [[American Model|US Aggression]].
*[[File:Posadist.png]] [[Posadism]] - My space-obsessed son, who seems to be always looking at the sky and that have really weird and extreme ideas and views. Surely his insane ideals of total nuclear obliteration will TOTALLY never be realized <s>right?</s>
*[[File:LeftCom.png]] [[Italian Left Communism]] - Agrees with me about [[File:Stalin.png]] him, and I get it, the 4th International is just a student union right now, but it will become bigger eventually. And I am more popular than you are.
*[[File:Councom.png]] [[Council Communism]] - Silly poet, you are just afraid of the masses.
*[[File:Necon.png]] <s>[[Neoconservatism]] - They don’t know that he is the second coming of Trotsky! Watch out world! I am ''BACK!''</s>
*[[File:Menshevik.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|Menshevism]] - I used to be you, but now I think you're a little moderate. Like Lenin did before his last years.
*[[File:Jacobin.png]] [[Jacobinism]] - Your legacy will not die in vain. The proletariat has taken on the traditions of the revolutionary bourgeoisie, but we can not replicate them. <ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/rp03.htm</ref>
*[[File:Statecap.png]] [[State Capitalism]] - Lenin was right that the NEP was needed to prevent a famine but it has gone too far and now the socialised productive forces are underdeveloped.
*[[File:TonyBenn.png]] [[Left-Wing Populism|Bennism]] - Thanks for all the help, Kerensky!
*[[File:Meta-Anarchism.png]] [[Nomadology]] - Why did you leave me Guattari?! At least you still described yourself as "A Marxist influenced by Guattari".
*[[File:Zinoviev.png]] [[Leninism|Zinovievism]] - I well never forgive you for initially allying with [[File:Stalin.png]] him! However we ended forming the United Opposition even though we still lost to [[File:Bukh.png]] [[Leninism|th]]{{PCBA|Stalinism|em}} [[File:Stalin.png]].

===Ревизионисты (Revisionists)===
*[[File:Agsoc.png]] [[Agrarian Socialism]] - We will arouse and organize the advanced workers and through the workers, we shall arouse the peasants. <s>You Kulaks!</s>
*[[File:Mao3word.png]] [[Maoism–Third Worldism]] - I didn't mean this when I said that workers should cooperate with peasants.
*[[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism]] - Simply an inferior, he doesn't portray Marxist text as it should be. You also didn't crack down on the family enough. <s>But cracking down Kulaks was based (although I would do it more severely.)</s>
*[[File:Stalin.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|Stalinism]] - Fucking bureaucrat purged me and then sent some asshole to kill me with an ice axe.
*[[File:Mao.png]] [[Maoism]] - Stalinist who expelled my son, Chen Duxiu and you called me revisionist. Besides, the peasant war by itself without the direct leadership of the proletarian vanguard can only pass on the power to a new bourgeois clique, some “Left” Kuomintang or other, “a third party”, etc., etc.,
*[[File:WangMing.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|Wang Ming Thought]] - Even more degenerated Chinese Stalinist who expelled Chen Duxiu and went as far too call me a Japanese spy!
*[[File:Hochi.png]] [[Ho Chi Minh Thought]] - I will not forget what you did to the workers in Saigon. And you killed [[File:Trot.png|frameless]][[Revolutionary Progressivism|Tạ Thu Thâu]] and my followers while ww2.
*[[File:Bukh.png]] [[Market Socialism|Bukharinism]] - Even more degenerated bureaucrat, who helped to purge me! <s>But a lot of my modern followers like you for some reason.</s>
*[[File:Dengf.png]] [[Dengism]] - You are proof that every [[File:Stalin.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|Degenerated Workers' State]] will inevitably return to Capitalism!
*[[File:Khrusch.png]] [[Khrushchevism]] - The new boss of the bureaucracy after Stalin. You helped him with the purges and the creation of his cult of personality, and after his death you denounced him! TRUE HYPOCRISY! You are just a Stalinist without Stalin.
*[[File:Mach.png]] [[Machiavellianism]] - "A means can only be justified by its end. But the end in turn needs to be justified." I’m a bit of a dogmatist when it comes to expecting a two-staged permanent revolution everywhere.
*[[File:Imp.png]] [[Imperialism]] - You oppressed the workers! I won't forgive you for what you have done!
*[[File:Fash.png]] [[Fascism]] - I am nothing to like you, You son of a bitch!
*[[File:Nazi.png]] [[Nazism]] - No matter how much I hate [[File:Stalin.png]] his degenerated workers’ state, he is still far better than your genocidal fascist bourgeois state. So f**k off!
*[[File:Nazbol.png]] [[National Bolshevism]] - You can't be serious!
*[[File:Bernst.png]] [[Reformist Marxism]] - Another fake communist! You can not build socialism using the capitalist state machinery!
*[[File:Makhnovism.png]] [[Platformism]] - You should have joined the bolsheviks in 1920.
*[[File:Ancom.png]] [[Anarcho-Communism]] - I kicked you out of Ukraine for a reason.
*[[File:AnSynd.png]] [[Anarcho-Syndicalism]] - Hue and cry about Kronstadt, anarkiddy.
*[[File:Insarch.png]] [[Insurrectionary Anarchism]] - Permanent Insurrection? That's impossible! Just a counter-revolutionary being!
*[[File:Hoxha.png]] [[Hoxhaism]] - Stalinite simp! I'm not revisionist, you are!
*[[File:Juche.png]] [[Juche]] - Another one of Stalin's simps!!!
*[[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy]] - You killed [[File:Lenin.png]] [[Leninism|Lenin]] and [[File:Rozalia.png]] [[Classical Social Democracy|Rosa]]!
*[[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]] - I may hate Stalin, but even a Degenerated Workers' State is still better, than a Bourgeois one!
*[[File:Unimon.png]] [[Universal Monarchism]] - You don't know me that well. Just face the Permanent revolution!

==Further Information==
===[[File:Book.png]] Literature===

====Works by Trotsky====
*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1920/terrcomm/index.htm Terrorism and Communism]
*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/germany/1932-ger/index.htm What’s Next? Vital Questions for the German Proletariat]
*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/germany/1932/320914.htm The Only Road]
*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/revbetray.pdf The Revolution Betrayed]
*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/idom/dm/dom.pdf In Defense of Marxism]

====Works by other writers====

*[https://www.eiu.edu/historia/Dragosits.pdf Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution: A Real Alternative to Socialism in One Country] by Eva Dragosits
*[https://www.amazon.com/Class-Society-Communism-Introduction-International/dp/0906133009 From Class Society to Communism: An Introduction to Marxism] by Ernest Mandel
*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/cliff/works/1999/trotism/index.htm Trotskyism after Trotsky]
*[https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/molyneux/1983/07/tradition.htm What is the real Marxist tradition]
*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/harman/1968/xx/partyclass.htm Party and Class]

===Articles===
[https://socialistworker.org/2012/04/06/do-the-ends-justify-the-means Do the ends justify the means?] Paul D’Amato

=== Manifestos ===

* [https://www.leftvoice.org/ Left Voice]
===[[File:Wikipedia.png]] Wikipedia===

*[[File:Trot.png]] [[w:Trotskyism|Trotskyism]]
*[[File:Lev Davidovich Bronstein.png]] [[w:Leon_Trotsky|Leon Trotsky]]
*[[w:Fourth_International|Fourth International]]
*[[w:Permanent_revolution|Permanent Revolution]]
*[[File:Clif.png]] [[w:Tony_Cliff|Tony Cliff]]
*[[w:International_Socialist_Tendency|International Socialist Tendency (IST)]]

===[[File:YouTube.png]] Videos===

*[https://youtu.be/Lp0a-0oIz_Q Leon Trotsky: Communism's True Believer] by [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ Biographics]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6T7tzrriUk What if Trotsky Came To Power Instead of Stalin?] by [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClfEht64_NrzHf8Y0slKEjw AlternateHistoryHub]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuzXR-5w4Qk Trotsky with Hitchens and Service] by [https://www.youtube.com/user/HooverInstitution Hoover Institution]

===Online Communities===

*[[File:Reddit.png]] [https://www.reddit.com/r/Trotskyism/ r/Trotskyism]

=== Organizations ===

* https://fourth.international
* [https://internationalsocialist.net/ International Socialist Alternative]
* [https://www.socialistworld.net/ Committee for a Workers' International]
* [https://www.marxist.com/ International Marxist Tendency]
* [https://www.icl-fi.org/ International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist)]
* [https://lis-isl.org/en/ International Socialist League]
* [https://www.union-communiste.org/en Internationalist Communist Union]

=== Notes ===
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=== References ===
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