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  • noun A supporter of Trotskyism.

Etymologies

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Trotsky +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • The word Trotskyist is used to mean three distinct things:

    Homage to Catalonia 1938

  • A leftist acting like anything whatsoever Marxist-Leninist-Trotskyist is a bad thing.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » How to “Kill the Bill” 2010

  • The bigoted Communist who changes in a space of weeks, or even days, into an equally bigoted Trotskyist is a common spectacle.

    Notes on Nationalism 1945

  • The Trotskyist is against Stalin just as the Communist is for him, and, like the majority of Communists, he wants not so much to alter the external world as to feel that the battle for prestige is going in his own favour.

    Notes on Nationalism 1945

  • ‘Trotskyism’ only came into public notice in the time of the Russian sabotage trials, and to call a man a Trotskyist is practically equivalent to calling him a murderer, agent provocateur, etc.

    Homage to Catalonia 1938

  • The two best-known intellectual dissidents of the Polish movement of 1968, Jacek Kuron and Karel Modzelewski, both had "Trotskyist" pasts, and both went on to help form the KOR (Workers Defense Committee), which became the nucleus of Solidarnosc.

    The Old Man 2004

  • The two best-known intellectual dissidents of the Polish movement of 1968, Jacek Kuron and Karel Modzelewski, both had "Trotskyist" pasts, and both went on to help form the KOR (Workers Defense Committee), which became the nucleus of Solidarnosc.

    The Old Man 2004

  • 'Trotskyist', he steered clear of politics and confined his criticism of communists to what he said was their 'reckless policy of calling workers out on strike with little hope of success'.

    Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 22 Ray Esther 1969

  • They tend - as do objective outside commentators - to use the term 'Trotskyist' to refer to themselves, while the term

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • They tend - as do objective outside commentators - to use the term 'Trotskyist' to refer to themselves, while the term

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

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