trotskyism

IPA: trˈɑtskiɪzʌm

Root Word: Trotskyism

The left-wing political philosophy named after and based on the ideas of Leon Trotsky that is characterized by international socialism, opposition to Stalinism, the theory of permanent revolution and the theory of the vanguard party.

Examples of "trotskyism" in Sentences

The result is the total feminisation of public policy and power to the malign forces of trotskyism.
My point here again is that history has not been kind to the three or four main theoretical postulates of "classic" trotskyism.
But there has to be a winner and my favourite search term by quite a long way was without a doubt george orwell "anti communist" champion of trotskyism and state informer.
All these views have been fairly well and systematically critiqued (from many sides), over the years (including by opposing schools of trotskyism, or those departing trotskyism).
This is where the Straussian beast of neoconservatism rears its ugly head.and says hello its mate, perverted trotskyism. ed Their vaunted starry-eyed idealism about spreading democracy is a pile of crap.
Put another way: trotskyism was aimed (in many ways) at creating a politics for the European trade union movements (that had their heyday in the early twentieth century). but the world revolution moved farther and farther away from those movements, and the development of imperialism cemented those movements more and more firmly to social democratic politics.