You are correct but Trotskyite has a better ring to the ear than communist and it doesn't have the nefarious connotations to regular folks which is one reason why I believe they use the term. Second generation neocons were for the most part democrats who became republicans, not that that is a bad thing but not all seem to have gotten over the admiration for government ability to accomplish "good" things or so the current arguement goes. The post WWII history of the right is a rather interesting study, if one likes to study political movements that is.
You are correct but Trotskyite has a better ring to the ear than communist and it doesn't have the nefarious connotations to regular folks which is one reason why I believe they use the term.
I have to disagree here. Trotskyites are either
1.) Anti-Stalinist Marxists-Lenninists. (I suppose Kirovist would also apply, but he was whacked before starting a useful opposition.)
2.) Anti-Stalinist far-leftists in general. This includes the strict definition above plus Menshiviks, and Anarchists. This was the definition used in the 1930's.
Trotskyites like to say that they were the true communists before Stalin screwed up teh USSR. They tend to ignore Trotsky's brutal past.
At Columbia, we have two "Trotskyite" groups.
There is the International Socialist Org, which follows the strict definition and stayed loyal to the USSR.
Then there are the Spratacists who included members for the failed 1919 uprising in Germany.
Personally, I love to see these groups argue!
. Second generation neocons were for the most part democrats who became republicans, not that that is a bad thing but not all seem to have gotten over the admiration for government ability to accomplish "good" things or so the current arguement goes.
I would also add the children of the first generation, like William Kristol.
The post WWII history of the right is a rather interesting study, if one likes to study political movements that is.
Yes. Unfortunately the Buckley/Chodorov conglomeration of anti-communists, sane paleo-cons, and anti-communist libertarians is breaking apart.