I don't know anything please don't hurt me.
To preface, I don't know shit about fuck, but my interpretation of Trotsky is that he was next in line to head the ussr after Lenin and Stalin hated him and pushed a censorship campaign and removed him from pictures and shit and banished him and then sent someone to pickaxe his face.
From what I know, he had criticisms of the ussr from the left and was more ML than Stalin and was more "pro-worker/citizen," but I very VERY much could be talking out of my ass and was just fed propaganda, which please correct me if so.
The Trotskyists in my area tend to have a parasitic relationship with social movements, and keep trying to funnel anarchists and abolitionists into electoral work.
They're also a liability at protests because they always frame themselves as leaders, but usually have no idea how to keep people safe from police violence.