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{{Trotskyism}}

[[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]], most prominently in opposing [[socialism in one country]], which he claimed was a break with [[proletarian internationalism]], and in what he claimed to be 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 co-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> Today, numerous groups around the world continue to describe themselves as Trotskyist, although they have developed Trotsky'(contracted; show full)wed the [[Bombay Mutiny]]. After the war, the Sri Lanka section  split into the Lanka Sama Samaja Party and the [[Bolshevik Samasamaja Party]] (BSP). The Indian section of the BLPI later fused with the [[Congress Socialist Party]]. In the general election of 1947 the LSSP became the main opposition party, winning 10 seats, the BSP winning a further 5. It joined the Trotskyist Fourth International after fusion with the BSP in 1950, and led a general strike ([[Hartal 1953|Hartal]]) in 1953.<ref name=Ervin
%26gt%3B>Ervin%2C, W E, ''Tomorrow is Ours: The Trotskyist Movement in India and Ceylon, 1935-48'', Colombo, Social Scientists Association, 2006.''</ref><ref>Y. Ranjith Amarasinghe, ''Revolutionary Idealism & Parliamentary Politics – A Study Of Trotskyism In Sri Lanka'', Colombo (1998)</ref><ref>[http://www.whatnextjournal.co.uk/Pages/History/Lssp.html Leslie Goonewardena, ''A Short History of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party''] acce(contracted; show full)[[ru:Троцкизм]]
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