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  • noun Plural form of Trotskyist.

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Examples

  • As archives in the former Soviet Union and the West have been opened up, a much clearer picture has emerged of a counter-revolutionary force intent on liquidating those they labelled Trotskyists and, by the mid-1930s, preventing revolutions that might disrupt Moscow's foreign policy. im gonna go ahead an assume

    Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends 2009

  • The jihadists 'notion of a pan-Islamic Ummah, or nation, says Roy, recalls the Trotskyists' idea of the proletariat: "an imaginary and therefore silent community that gives legitimacy to the small groups pretending to speak in its name."

    The Truth About Jihad Rodenbeck, Max 2005

  • No. In fact, some of the people that I knew there were called Trotskyists and one of them later on disappeared.

    Oral History Interview with Clark Foreman, November 16, 1974. Interview B-0003. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1974

  • For us to continue to regard the revolutionary movement in a Manichean fashion where the Trotskyists are the good forces and everybody else is evil is an obstacle not only to our own growth, but the success of the revolutionary movement overall.

    Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist 2009

  • Though the movement soon after coming to power crushed independent-minded trade unionists, often dubbed as "Trotskyists," many of Angola's relatively detribalized urban workers also looked toward the MPLA.

    Inside Angola Smiley, Xan 1983

  • Zinoviev's and Kamenev's attempt to uphold the international view-point, if only to a limited degree, turned them into "Trotskyists" of the second order in the eyes of the bureaucracy.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • Zinoviev THE LAST PERIOD OF STRUGGLE WITHIN THE PARTY and Kamenev openly avowed that the "Trotskyists" had been right in the struggle against them ever since 1923.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • As volunteers in the fight against the "Trotskyists, " notoriously non-revolutionary and sometimes sheer Fascist elements in the streets of Moscow were now coming to the aid of the apparatus.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • No wonder so many of our current political leaders were "Trotskyists" in their youth.

    A Place to Stand 2008

  • As a saying about Trotskyists goes: "One's a tendency, two's a party and three's a split."

    A little bit of Ealing around St Paul's | Yvonne Roberts 2011

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