Trotskyism

Trotskyism or Bolshevik-Leninism is a Socialist and Globalist ideology focusing on the political ideals of the Soviet revolutionary  Leon Trotsky. It is distinguished in the belief of "permanent revolution".

History
Trotskyism originated during the life of Leon Trotsky, who was influenced by the ideas of Karl Marx and 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 Joseph Stalin came to power in 1924, Trotsky was exiled from the 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 bourgeois-democratic revolution in Russia is conceivable only in the form of  the dictatorship of the proletariat, leaning on the peasantry. The democratic revolution grows over directly into the  socialist revolution and thereby becomes a permanent revolution.

Another important Trotskyism's belief is the theory of "Degenerated Workers' State". According to it, a Dictatorship of the Proletariat may develop a powerful caste of state bureaucrats, which will seize the power from the workers. Such a state will be unable to progress further towards higher-stage Communism, and without any political revolution to overthrow the bureaucracy it will eventually slide back to  Capitalism. As such, Trotsky believed that a socialist state would need to be run democratically.

Trotskyism also maintains as being in the camp of "Anti- Stalinist"/"Anti-Soviet" camp, and such it generally aligns itself with people on the moderate left than with other extreme authoritarian left ideologies, although it is still part of the authoritarian left.

How to Draw
Trot_flag.svg Trotskyism's design is based on this flag by ColumbianSFR.


 * 1) Draw a ball
 * 2) Fill the bottom quarter with yellow and the top 3 quarters with red
 * 3) Draw a hammer and sickle with a 4 inside in yellow
 * 4) Draw a star in yellow above the hammer and sickle
 * 5) Add the eyes and you're done!

Friends

 * [[File:Ormarxf.png]] Marxism - Dad knows best.
 * [[File:Orthlen.png]] Leninism - I helped him set up the Soviet Union.
 * [[File:Luxem.png]] Luxemburgism - Fellow democracy-loving vanguard Marxist. Tad too libertarian, though.
 * [[File:Chavismo.png]] Chavismo - My son who applied me in Venezuela.
 * [[File:Clif.png]] Cliffism - My favorite son.
 * [[File:Hmind.png]] Hive-Mind Collectivism - Expansionist Communism is based.

Frenemies

 * [[File:Blacknat.png]] Black Nationalism: You seem pretty based and there's many black trotskyists but most of you don't like me?
 * [[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 right?
 * [[File:LeftCom.png]] 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.
 * [[File:Councom.png]] Council Communism - You are pretty idealist you know.
 * [[File:Caudillo.png]] Caudillismo - I like you when you're with me and hate you when you're against me.
 * [[File:Neomarx.png]] Neo-Marxism - Great job expanding my grandpa's theories, but you are far too liberal for me.
 * [[File:Menshevik.png]] Menshevik - I used to be you. My [[File:ChenDuxiu.png]] son in China also loves you.
 * [[File:Kemal.png]] Kemalism - Even though i don't like your ideology, you hosted me in Istanbul for 4 years. Thanks.
 * [[File:Cardenas.png]] Cardenismo - Nationalist and too economically moderate, but thanks for giving me a shelter in Mexico.
 * [[File:Honecker.png]] Honeckerism - You also want a sozialistische Weltrepublik, but you are too revisionist.
 * [[File:Necon.png]] Neoconservatism - Bastard child This isn't what I meant by "permanent revolution."
 * [[File:Imp.png]] Imperialism - You oppressed the workers! I won't forgive you what you done with them! Imposing your will on the whole world is based tho

Enemies

 * [[File:Agsoc.png]] Agrarian Socialism - We will arouse and organize the advanced workers and through the workers we shall arouse the peasants.
 * [[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. Didn't crack down on the family enough, 0/10.
 * [[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” Kuo Min Tang or other, “a third party”, etc., etc.,
 * [[File:Hochi.png]] Ho Chi Minh Thought - I will not forget what you did to the workers in Saigon.
 * [[File:Stalin.png]] Stalinism - Fucking bureaucrat purged me and then sent some asshole to kill me with an ice axe.
 * [[File: Dengf.png]] Dengism - You are a proof that every [[File:Stalin.png]] Degenerated Workers' State will inevitably return to Capitalism.
 * [[File:Fash.png]] Fascism, I am nothing to like you, You son of a bitch!
 * [[File:Nazi.png]] National Socialism - You too, But you make me look bad, Because another leftists have compared me to you, But I am nothing like to you and you are also antisemitic, And I am not even cooperate you to against Soviet Union though I hate [[File:Stalin.png]]him, So fuck off!
 * [[File:Nazbol.png]] National Bolshevism - You can't be serious!
 * [[File:Natcom.png]] National Communism - Fake communist. Proletariat knows no country.
 * [[File:Bernst.png]]Reformist Marxism - Another fake communist and you're also fake Marxist scum!
 * [[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 - The Kronstadt rebellion was a bourgeois counter revolution attempt!
 * [[File:Insarch.png]] Insurrectionary Anarchism - Permanent Insurrection? That's Impossible! Just a counter-revolutionary being!
 * [[File:Tito.png]] Titoism - Revisionist who calls me a tool of fascism. Though standing up to Stalin, Hoxha, AND the west at the same time like an absolute GIGA-CHAD was extremely commendable!
 * [[File:Hoxha.png]] Hoxhaism - Stalinite scum.
 * [[File:Socdem.png]] Social Democracy - You shot Lenin and killed 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!

Works by Trotsky

 * The Revolution Betrayed
 * In Defense of Marxism

Works by other writers

 * Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution: A Real Alternative to Socialism in One Country by Eva Dragosits
 * From Class Society to Communism: An Introduction to Marxism by Ernest Mandel

Wikipedia

 * Trotskyism
 * Leon Trotsky
 * Fourth International
 * Permanent Revolution

Videos

 * Leon Trotsky: Communism's True Believer by Biographics
 * What if Trotsky Came To Power Instead of Stalin? by AlternateHistoryHub

Online Communities

 * r/Trotskyism

Gallery
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