13 Facts About Trotskyism

Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and some other members of the Left Opposition and Fourth International.

Trotskyism supported founding a vanguard party of the proletariat, proletarian internationalism, and a dictatorship of the proletariat based on working-class self-emancipation and mass democracy.

Trotskyism was exiled to Alma-Ata in January 1928 and then expelled from the Soviet Union in February 1929.

Theory of permanent revolution considers that in many countries that are thought under Trotskyism to have not yet completed a bourgeois-democratic revolution, the capitalist class opposes the creation of any revolutionary situation.

Trotskyism meant the idea that the Russian proletariat might win the power in advance of the Western proletariat, and that in that case it could not confine itself within the limits of a democratic dictatorship but would be compelled to undertake the initial socialist measures.

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Trotsky argued that the "so-called struggle against 'Trotskyism' grew out of the bureaucratic reaction against the October Revolution [of 1917]".

Trotskyism responded to the one-sided civil war with his Letter to the Bureau of Party History, contrasting what he claimed to be the falsification of history with the official history of just a few years before.

Trotskyism further accused Stalin of derailing the Chinese revolution and causing the massacre of the Chinese workers:.

At the time of the founding of the Fourth International in 1938, Trotskyism was a mass political current in Vietnam, Sri Lanka and slightly later Bolivia.

Trotskyism has influenced some recent major social upheavals, particularly in Latin America.

In French Indochina during the 1930s, Vietnamese Trotskyism, led by Ta Thu Thau, was a significant current, particularly in Saigon, Cochinchina.

Trotskyism had his day in court and finally lost because his whole position flew in the face of Soviet and world realities.

Trotskyism was doomed to defeat because his ideas were incorrect and failed to conform to objective conditions, as well as the needs and interests of the Soviet people.