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.
Most of the opposition of Trotsky comes from the fact he kept denouncing the USSR during critical moments of survival and how many of his supporters are genuinely weird and often times conservative leaning. I’m pretty sure the meme about Trotskyism to neoconservativism pipeline meme comes from the fact many prominent neocon thinkers were trotskyists