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- noun radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution
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Examples
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It is true that some people manage to go from trotskyist to neo-con, and there is some truth in the going from socialist in youth to boring old liberal/ even conservative in middle age.
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A left wing, a sort of watered down trotskyist middle class view has largely triumphed.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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The royal patronage of the 17 and 18 th centuries has been replaced by the patronage of the state controlled by those with a watered down trotskyist view of life.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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The Lib dems are an odd party held together by negative rather than positive attitudes, As for Plaid it really is a coalition between rural conservatives and an collection of individuals who if the lived in England would be active in a trotskyist fringe party.
Sweaty Armpits Glyn Davies 2007
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The extreme left, the marxist/trotskyist/stalinist/leninist cabal who don't care about you.
The Guardian World News Phil Daoust 2011
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The trotskyist LCR organized the formation, but attracted quite a number of non-trotskyists - some anarchists, some radical ecologists or trade unionists.
MRZine.org 2010
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The trotskyist LCR organized the formation, but attracted quite a number of non-trotskyists - some anarchists, some radical ecologists or trade unionists.
MRZine.org 2010
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The anti-war movement is still dominated by people (trotskyist or not) who need to take an honest stock of the last 5 years.
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They are not a serious disputation of trotskyist theories - but a sketch of why communists view trotskyism was a false start, and a mistaken direction, for any revolutionary aspirations.
Kasama 2009
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(associated with the Forurth International leader Pablo) announced that it was possible to have revolution "with a blunt instrument" - i.e. without a trotskyist vanguard leading.
Kasama 2009
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