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Trotskyism
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[[File:Trotskyist Left Opposition-1927.jpg|thumb|222px|right|The leaders of the Trotskyist [[Left Opposition]] in [[Moscow]], [[1927]]. Sitting: [[Leonid Serebryakov]], [[Karl Radek]], [[Leon Trotsky]], [[Mikhail Boguslavsky]], and [[Yevgeni Preobrazhensky]]. Standing: [[Christian Rakovsky]], [[Yakov Drobnis]], [[Alexander Beloborodov]], and [[Lev Sosnovsky]].]]
'''Trotskyism''' is the theory of [[Marxism]] as  advocated by [[Leon Trotsky]]. Trotsky considered himself an [[Orthodox Marxism|orthodox Marxist]] and [[Bolshevik]]-[[Leninism|Leninist]], arguing for the establishment of a [[vanguard party]]. His politics differed sharply from [[Stalinism]], mainly in opposing [[socialism in one country]] which he claimed was a break with [[proletarian internationalism]], and also what he claimed as his unwavering support for a true [[dictatorship of the proletariat]] based on [[Democracy|democratic]] principles.⏎
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Trotsky's followers maintain that, together with Lenin, Trotsky was the most important leader of the [[Russian Revolution (1917)|Russian Revolution]] and the international [[Communist]] movement in 1917 and the following years.<ref>Lenin and Trotsky were "co-leaders" of the 1917 Russian Revolution: http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/archives/oldsite/2004/RCP-823.htm</ref> Now, numerous groups around the world continue to describe themselves as Trotskyist, although they have develo(contracted; show full)[[ru:Троцкизм]]
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