I have discußed the errors of Trotsky and Trotskyism far too many times for my liking. This being the case, I feel the obliged due to some raising of the question to once more interject upon it.
Trotskyism, first of all, is much worse than Leon Trotsky's own theories. For how ever incorrect or un-Marxist they were, I am confident in saying that Trotsky was simply mistaken in his analysis, but was firmly in the camp of the proletarian revolution. His disputations with Comrade Stalin, and the final culmination of this disagreement is a historical tragedy. Trotskyism is a much more vile ideology altogether, mutated by grooming from the CIA, the Nazis, the US Liberal intelligentsia, and anti-proletarian characters of the like.
Trotskyism has morphed from Trotsky's critical support for the USSR into blind hatred of all things socialist. Oddly enough, for a group which is nominally supposed to be anti-imperialist and independent of the various machinations of the United States deep-intel state, they strangely almost always align with the foreign policy of the CIA, the WTO, and the IMF. These three institutions are not friendly to the international proletariat, quite the opposite. American Trotskyism, by far the most toxic form, which has unfortunately garnered predominant influence over the rest of the movement, has since day one been a tool of the bourgeoisie. At every turn they criticised Trotsky's insightful defences of the international proletariat. One could say that American Trotskyism was the George Orwell of the Trotskyist ideology (that is to say, a wrecker of it).
One of the problems that Trotsky and Trotskyism shared was disbelief, even latent antagonism towards the peasantry. collectivisation, as Trotsky fully realised, was a neceßity. But under Trotsky's distrustful direction, how can one conclude that collectivisation would go more smoothly than in the peasant-neutral government of J V Stalin? Stalin's opinion of the peasantry was that they can and must be recruited to the Communist cause, and that it was the big landed peasants (kulaks) that posed a threat to the dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry. The latter formulation is a Marxist claß analysis, the former is prejudice. In Third World countries, the peasants are the majority. Coming to this truth, the Western Trotskyists have, whether intentionally or inadvertently, become gatekeepers of renovated Euro-'Communism'. The Trotskyists suffer from the same Liberal racism that I detailed in my I Had a Dream post.
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