Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky identified as an orthodox Marxist and Bolshevik-Leninist, and supported founding a vanguard party of the working-class, proletarian internationalism, and a dictatorship of the proletariat based on working-class self-emancipation and mass democracy. Trotskyists are critical of Marxism-Leninism, as they oppose the idea of Socialism in One Country. Trotskyists also criticise the bureaucracy that developed under the Stalin period of the USSR. Vladimir Lenin and Trotsky were close both ideologically and personally during the Russian Revolution and its aftermath, and some call Trotsky its co-leader.[1] However, Lenin criticized Trotskys ideas and intra-Party political habits. Trotsky was the paramount leader of the Soviet Red Army in the direct aftermath of the Revolutionary period. Trotsky originally opposed some aspects of Leninism. Later, he concluded that unity between the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks was impossible, and joined the Bolsheviks. Trotsky played a leading role with Lenin in the revolution. Assessing Trotsky, Lenin wrote, Trotsky long ago said that unification is impossible. Trotsky understood this and from that time on there has been no better Bolshevik.[2] Trotskys Fourth International was established in France in 1938 when Trotskyists argued that the Comintern or Third International had become irretrievably lost to Stalinism and thus incapable of leading the international working class to political power.[3] In contemporary English language, an advocate of Trotskys ideas is often called a Trotskyist; a Trotskyist can be called a Trotskyite or Trot, especially by a critic of Trotskyism , ????
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