Trotskyism
Trotskyism follows Leon Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution, which holds that socialism can only survive if revolution spreads internationally. Trotskyists opposed Stalin's rule as a bureaucratic degeneration and advocate workers' democracy within a revolutionary party framework.
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Supports centralised planning and a centralised revolutionary party.
Calls for soviet and workers' democracy, but within a vanguard party model.
Accepts revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat while criticising bureaucratic repression.
Defined by permanent revolution and the need for world socialist revolution.
Supports armed revolution and Trotsky built the Red Army, but opposes imperialist wars.
Strongly internationalist on nationality and opposed to chauvinism.
Seeks full abolition of private ownership of the means of production.
Advocates centralised democratic planning of the economy.
No protectionist doctrine; envisions an integrated world socialist economy.
Firmly materialist and secular.
Generally progressive on social issues in contemporary Trotskyist movements.
Optimistic about technology and industrial development under socialism.