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TrotskyismMarxist ideology based on the theory of permanent revolution first expounded by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky believed that because all national economic development was affected by the laws of the world market, a revolution depended on revolutions in other countries for permanent success, a position that put him at odds with Joseph Stalin's “socialism in one country.” After Trotsky's exile in 1929, Trotskyists continued to attack the Soviet bureaucracy as “Bonapartist” (based on the dictatorship of one man). In the 1930s Trotskyists advocated a united front with trade unions against fascism. After Trotsky's murder (1940), Trotskyism became a generic term for various revolutionary doctrines that opposed the Soviet form of communism. See also Leninism, Marxism, Stalinism. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Eliot became an Anglican, which Orwell describes as "the ecclesiastical equivalent of Trotskyism. There is an inherent attraction among intellectuals for extremist positions-witness Christopher Hitchens lurching from youthful Trotskyism to his own very personal version of neoconservatism. The end of Arius was not the end of Arianism, which enjoyed a brief honeymoon in the reign of the sympathetic emperor Constantius (350-361), before both destroying itself in the manner of modern Trotskyism by endless internal bickerings of minute points of terminology and being destroyed by the superior oratory and writings of Basil and the two Gregorys, culminating in the decisive Council of Constantinople (381). |
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