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Trotskyism
The theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky identified himself as an orthodox Marxist and Bolshevik-Leninist, and supported founding a vanguard party of the proletariat, proletarian internationalism, and a dictatorship of the proletariat based on working class self-emancipation and mass democracy.
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I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fascinating web-site and blog stuff, from the isolationist Right as well as from the peaceniks, who both argue in a semi-literate way that neo-conservativism is Trotskyism and 'permanent revolution' reborn.
Sometimes, you have to comb an overt anti-Semitism out of this propaganda before you can even read it straight. And I can guarantee you that none of these characters has any id
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― Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
― Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
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Trotsky was so much an intellectual that in the final analysis, Marxism was not quite enough for him.
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― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
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