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Trotskyism is the form of Communism that is based on the ideas of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky described himself as an "orthodox Marxist". This is a different way of seeing the ideas of Karl Marx than the way other communists like Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin saw them. The biggest difference is in Trotsky's idea that there needs to be an international "permanent revolution". A permanent revolution is the idea that proletarian revolution needed to spread in countries worldwide, even where capitalism was not as advanced as only the proletarian revolution could carry out the tasks of the unfinished bourgeois revolutions in these countries. This is different to the Stalinist idea of trying to preserve a single nation's revolution from within. Trotsky also supported a less authoritarian government and more democracy.

The largest Trotskyist organizations today are the Reunified Fourth International, International Socialist Tendency, the International Communist League, and the Committee for a Workers' International.

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    Leon Trotsky

  • Trotskyist Left Opposition-1927

    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)

  • Leo Trotzki 1900 in Sibirien

    Trotsky in exile in Siberia, 1900

  • Lenin, Trotsky and Voroshilov with Delegates of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

    Trotsky with Vladimir Lenin and soldiers in Petrograd

  • V A Antonov-Ovseenko

    Antonov-Ovseyenko was the first former Trotskyist to be posthumously rehabilitated

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    United Socialist Workers' Party in Brazil, June 2014

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    Workers' Left Front in Argentina in December 2017

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    LSSP main office in Colombo, Sri Lanka

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    Socialist Alternative members in the United States at an antiwar march in 2007

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