Trotskyite

Or Trot·sky·ist

[trot-skee-ahyt]

noun

1. a supporter of Trotsky or Trotskyism.

adjective

1. of or relating to Trotsky or Trotskyism.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Trotskyite¹

L. Trotsky + -ite ¹

Example Sentences

Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, for example, pronounced himself “profoundly alarmed” by, among other things, Mamdani’s “Trotskyite economic policies.”

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Politically, he briefly backed the Trotskyite Militant Tendency in his youth.

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He is backed by the Socialist Party, a successor organisation to the Trotskyite Militant Tendency, and is not expected to come close to winning.

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In the evenings, she was a labor organizer for a Trotskyite group.

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Against the Trotskyite view of Stalin as a Georgian bandit chief, Kalder argues that Stalin was actually a big thinker and a good writer, capable of popularizing Marx in ways Lenin could not.

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