In the 1920s they called themselves the Left Opposition, although today's left communism is distinct and usually non-Bolshevik. On the political spectrum of Marxism, Trotskyists are usually considered to be towards the left. Use of a transitional programme of demands that bridge between daily struggles of the working class and the maximal ideas of the socialist transformation of society.Support for proletarian internationalism.Support for social revolution in the advanced capitalist countries through working-class mass action.Criticism of the post-1924 leadership of the Soviet Union, analysis of its features after 1933 also support for political revolution in the Soviet Union and in what Trotskyists term the degenerated workers' states.Support for the strategy of permanent revolution, in opposition to the two-stage theory of his opponents.The leaders of the Trotskyist Left Opposition in Moscow, 1927 (sitting: Leonid Serebryakov, Karl Radek, Leon Trotsky, Mikhail Boguslavsky and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky standing: Christian Rakovsky, Yakov Drobnis, Alexander Beloborodov and Lev Sosnovsky)ДЄccording to Trotsky, his program could be distinguished from other Marxist theories by five key elements: A Trotskyist may be called a 'Trotskyite' or 'Trot', especially by a critic of Trotskyism. In contemporary English language usage, an advocate of Trotsky's ideas is often called a 'Trotskyist'. Trotsky's Fourth International was established in the French Third Republic in 1938, when Trotskyists argued that the Comintern or Third International had become irretrievably 'lost to Stalinism' and thus incapable of leading the international working class to political power. Trotsky and the party of Trotskyists were still recognized as enemies of the USSR during Khrushchev's rule of the Soviet Union from 1956. Nikita Khrushchev had come to power as head of the Communist Party in Ukraine at that time, signing lists of other Trotskyists to be executed. Almost all of the Trotskyists within the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) were executed in the Great Purges of 1937вЂ“1938, effectively removing all of Trotsky's internal influence in the Soviet Union. His murder is considered a political assassination. On 20 August 1940, Trotsky was attacked in Mexico City by RamГіn Mercader, a Spanish-born NKVD agent, and died the next day in a hospital. As the head of the Fourth International, Trotsky continued in exile to oppose what he termed the degenerated workers' state in the Soviet Union. He was then internally exiled to Alma-Ata (now Almaty) in January 1928, and then expelled from the Soviet Union altogether in February 1929. In October, by order of Stalin, Trotsky was removed from power, and in November, expelled from the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Trotsky understood this and from that time on there has been no better Bolshevik.' Д«eginning in 1927, Trotsky was purged from the Communist Party and Soviet politics. Assessing Trotsky, Lenin wrote: 'Trotsky long ago said that unification is impossible. Trotsky played a leading role with Lenin in the October Revolution. Trotsky initially opposed some aspects of Leninism, but eventually concluded that unity between the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks was impossible and joined the Bolsheviks. Trotsky was the paramount leader of the Red Army in the direct aftermath of the Revolutionary period. Lenin and Trotsky were close both ideologically and personally during the Russian Revolution and its aftermath, and Trotskyists and some others call Trotsky its 'co-leader'. Vladimir Lenin and Trotsky, despite their ideological disputes, were close personally prior to the London congress of social democrats in 1903 and during the First World War. Trotskyists also criticize the bureaucracy and anti-democratic current that developed in the Soviet Union under Stalin. Trotskyists are critical of Stalinism as they oppose Joseph Stalin's theory of socialism in one country in favor of Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution. He supported founding a vanguard party of the proletariat, proletarian internationalism, and a dictatorship of the proletariat (as opposed to the ' dictatorship of the bourgeoisie' which Marxists argue defines capitalism) based on working class self-emancipation and mass democracy. Trotsky self-identified as an orthodox Marxist, a revolutionary Marxist, and BolshevikвЂ“ Leninist, a follower of Marx, Engels, and of 3L: Vladimir Lenin, Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg. Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Ukrainian-Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and by some other members of the Left Opposition and Fourth International.

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