What distinguishes Trotskyites is a belief in that absurd concept that Trotsky had of instantaneous proletariat revolution. Trotsky believed that the working class would engage in a spontaneous revolution once it determined it's class interest. A concept directly at odds with that of Lenin and yes Stalin's concept of the necessity of a revolutionary vanguard made up of professionals leading the proletariat who is incapable of knowing it's class interest. The Trotskyite position was closer to that of Bakunin and the anarchists.Did I know all this? No way! Neither do 95% of neo conservatives in America. They just agree with the neo conservative ideas and don't know jack (and don't care jack) about Trotsky. No way was Trotsky the communist killer some are making him out to be on this thread. He had blood on his hands but nothing like a Stalin Hitler Mao Lenin Pol Pot and whoever killed tens of thousands of Vietnamese after our Vietnam war
He had blood on his hands but nothing like a Stalin Hitler Mao Lenin Pol Pot and whoever killed tens of thousands of Vietnamese after our Vietnam warYou're painting yourself into a logical corner with this argument.
It is far more important that Trotsky denounced his errors--and we hope that he denounced ALL of them, including the atheism implicit in Communism.