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TROTSKYIST

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Overview

TROTSKYIST (noun)
  The noun TROTSKYIST has 1 sense:

1. radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolutionplay

  Familiarity information: TROTSKYIST used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


TROTSKYIST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Trot; Trotskyist; Trotskyite

Hypernyms ("Trotskyist" is a kind of...):

radical (a person who has radical ideas or opinions)

Derivation:

Trotsky (Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army; he was ousted from the Communist Party by Stalin and eventually assassinated in Mexico (1879-1940))

Trotskyism (the form of communism advocated by Leon Trotsky; calls for immediate worldwide revolution by the proletariat)


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