Definitions

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  • noun The political and economic theories of Communism advocated by Leon Trotsky and his followers, usually including the principle of worldwide revolution.

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  • noun The political philosophy named after Leon Trotsky that is characterized by the theory of permanent revolution and the theory of the vanguard party.

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  • noun the form of communism advocated by Leon Trotsky; calls for immediate worldwide revolution by the proletariat

Etymologies

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From Russian Троцкий (Tróckij) (Trotsky +‎ -ism)

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Examples

  • Although in some places, for instance in the United States, Trotskyism is able to attract a fairly large number of adherents and develop into an organised movement with a petty fuerher of its own, its inspiration is essentially negative.

    Notes on Nationalism 1945

  • To criticize the Soviet Union helps Hitler: therefore ‘Trotskyism is Fascism’.

    As I Please 1944

  • Trotskyism is an official capitalist organization, a Fascist terrorist band occupied in crime and sabotage against the people.

    Homage to Catalonia 1938

  • Whether this lessens or strengthens the authority of the IWG in Irish Trotskyism, I don't know.

    Irish Blogs 2009

  • Nothing of the sort was to happen: communism proved itself able to adapt but not to reform, and "Trotskyism" remained one of the few unpardonable heresies of which a dissident on the other side of the Iron Curtain could be accused.

    The Old Man 2004

  • Nothing of the sort was to happen: communism proved itself able to adapt but not to reform, and "Trotskyism" remained one of the few unpardonable heresies of which a dissident on the other side of the Iron Curtain could be accused.

    The Old Man 2004

  • This means that all through the discussion of "Trotskyism" in 1923, I was ill.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • It never entered any one's head to ask if I had renounced "Trotskyism, " as I was asked thousands of times during the period of the epigone decline, by the Cachins, Thalmanns, and others of the hangers-on of the October revolution.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • Here a test of the relations between "Trotskyism" and Leninism was made on the very touchstone of history.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • Publication was discontinued in 1927, when the persecution of "Trotskyism" became especially intense.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

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