It seems like people mostly use trotskyist as a stand in for "anti-communist leftism" or "ultra," but what are the actual thoughts he contributed? Is there anything that is useful today and can be separated from anti-communism and the legacy of trots?
No newspaper memes please. I genuinely want to know.
(Ice pick memes are acceptable)
Edit: thanks for the info everyone. I'm proud of you all.
I wonder if Trotsky was thinking more about smallholder peasants - someone who owns just enough land to feed themselves + a small surplus, versus in China where it sounds like the people who worked the land tended to have to rent from landlords, idk.
Could be. Mao did observe "rich peasants" as a distinct anti-revolutionary class, so they might actually agree on that front.