Trotskyism is an extreme left-wing political ideology which originated in the split in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the 1920s between supporters of Joseph Stalin and supporters of Leon Trotsky. Stalin easily defeated Trotsky and forced him into exile, then had him assassinated. Although personal animosity between Trotsky and Stalin was a major factor in the split, it came to be seen as centered on the incompatibility of views regarding the ‘Revolution’. Trotsky believed that although the ‘working class’ had seized power in Russia, true socialism could not be established unless there was a global revolution. The Stalinists denied this, and held that they could create a socialist society in the USSR: the so-called ‘Socialism in One Country’ strategy. A wilier political operator than his opponent, Stalin was able to edge Trotsky and his supporters out of political power in the Soviet Union, and, by achieving domination of the Third International (the Comintern), was able to impose anti-Trotskist views on the worldwide Communist movement. Trotsky was exiled from the USSR in 1929, and murdered by Stalinist agents in Mexico in 1940.
Trotsky initially sought to recapture Communist parties around the world from Stalinist influence, but inevitably small dissident groups, expelled from “mainstream” Communist parties, began to form independent organizations, often practicing entrism in non-Communist left-wing parties in an attempt to take them over. In 1938 Trotsky formed the Fourth International, an umbrella body for Trotskyist national groups which sought to provide a global leadership.
However, Trotskyist groups have almost always been very much a fringe element in the politics of the countries where they were active. The sole exception is Sri Lanka, where a Trotskyist party called the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) formed part of a coalition government from 1964 to 1975.
Trotskyism is a form of Communism. It has never been tried in practice, because Stalinism instead became the dominant Communist ideology.
Chronological History of Events Involving Leon Trotsky
‘Animal Farm’ Published by George Orwell
Communist International 1938 in Paris: “(World) Dictatorship can only be established by the victory of Socialism in different countries.”
Red Symphony – The Interrogation of Rothschild Agent Christian Rakovsky Reveals Rothschild-Illuminati Conspiracy to Establish a World Dictatorship of the Super Rich
“The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was the Work of Jewish Planning and Jewish Dissatisfaction. Our Plan is to Have a New World Order.”
Winston Churchill: “From the Days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Marx, Trotsky… this Worldwide Conspiracy for the Overthrow of Civilisation… has been Steadily Growing.”
The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
