10 Facts About Trotskyist

1.

Trotskyist 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.

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2.

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

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3.

Trotskyist 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.

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4.

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

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5.

Isolated from each other and faced with political developments quite unlike those anticipated by Trotsky, some Trotskyist organizations decided that the Soviet Union could no longer be called a degenerated workers' state and withdrew from the Fourth International.

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6.

Bolivian Trotskyist party became a mass party in the late 1940s and early 1950s and, together with other groups, played a central role during and immediately after the period termed the Bolivian National Revolution.

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7.

Venezuelan Trotskyist organizations do not regard Chavez as a Trotskyist, with some describing him as a bourgeois nationalist while others consider him an honest revolutionary leader who made significant mistakes due to him lacking a Marxist analysis.

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8.

In Turkey, there are some Trotskyist organizations, including the International Socialist Tendency's section, Coordinating Committee for the Refoundation of the Fourth International's section, Permanent Revolution Movement, Socialism Magazine, and several small groups.

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9.

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

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10.

Trotskyist 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.

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