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- noun Plural form of
Trotskyite .
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Examples
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This position of the Trotskyites is the same which all newspapers and publicity agencies of Yankee imperialism adopted in relation to the cause of Comrade Ernesto Guevara.
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McCain was remarkably blunt with reporters, teasing them with playful insults, calling them "Trotskyites" and "communists."
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To compare the Neoconservative Vulcan group with "Trotskyites" or claim that they have a common heritage is to make the whole thrust of your essay rather shaky.
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What remains unforgettable to me about that organization is the paranoia, inquisitorial scrutiny of attitudes, even personal associations with American Socialists (not to speak of such "criminal elements" as real or imaginary "Trotskyites" and "Lovestonites") that pervaded the movement's life.
Revisiting American Communism: An Exchange Barrett, James R. 1985
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In contrast to the dismal damage done to European higher education by post-WWII leftism, perhaps the only great American college ruined in the name of egalitarianism was City College of New York, where the neoconservatives of the 1970s had been the Trotskyites of the 1930s.
Matthew Yglesias » Meeting Obama’s College Attainment Goals 2009
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Yes, how dare they not stay on message like discplined little Trotskyites.
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Yes, I will go out on a limb here and dare you to find one single photo from the 2005 anti-war rally I mentioned -- or any other DC anti-war rally since then run by a mainstream group (ie. not Trotskyites or Lyndon Larouche groupies) -- in which people carried signs threatening any sort of violence.
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I wonder if Astrue personally relates to Russians, be they spies, suspected Jews, zealous Trotskyites, or whatever.
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From my meager knowledge the faction of the Nazi party less keen on Hitler were, like the Trotskyites of Russia or the Red Guard in China, more radical enthusiasts of revolution.
Fun History Fact of the Day, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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They were all unreconstructed Trotskyites and such.
Government Overgrowth, II, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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