> So, they would be Stalinists, then. How is that a good thing?
Stalin for all his mass murdering evil ways wasn’t as bad Trotsky. Trotsky was encouraging an endless reign of terror were people not left wing enough last week were put to death this week. It required people to go further and further left just like the reign of terror in the French revolution. The ultimate outcome would have been something akin to the Khmer Rouge and their endless killing fields.
Stalin stop the reign of terror by killing anyone to the right of the Stalin and killing anyone to the left of Stalin. Not good solution but about what you could expect when a criminal Communist like Stalin takes over a nation.