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.
Many of the purges did seem like personal vendetta or a power struggle, unless one believes that 90% of stalin’s and Lenin’s old comrades who formed the USSR were all agents of the west lol